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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not give up the sixteen years I had of cuddling my dog and laughing with her and sleeping with her, and letting her tug me over to crying babies so she could check on them, for all the times over the last year that I've cried because she died of old age.  [/quote]
This is it exactly......the joy of having them is so overwhelming that it makes the pain of losing them worthwhile[/quote]
....I'm the poster above, and after I posted, I was reminded of a bit of prose I came across a while ago. I'm paraphrasing it - to a great degree - but it went something like this:

One rainy night, just three weeks after my beloved cat died at age 18, I heard a soft "meow" and gentle scratch at the front door. I went to investigate and there at my feet was a scrawny little cat, fur drenching wet, begging for "in."

"What?," I exclaimed to the animal, "you think I want to go through what I just have for the past few months? Cleaning cat throw-up off my bed and cat poop on the carpet? Going back and forth to the vet as my darling cat declined, and prodding her to eat? With thousands of dollars of bills? And then going through all that unspeakable grief as I watched the needle go in her vein, watch as her eyes closed one final time, and witnessed her last breath? Do you think I'd voluntarily go through that again, just in order to have a cat?"

...."well," I said as I opened the door, "come on in!"[/quote]

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