Forever loving my Pippi

[AngelnSnuffy]

:bigtears:I'm a sloppy mess...

It's really so overwhelming, Cheryl, it's soooo beautiful.ink iris:

 

[timetowaste]

oh my god

what song is this

my heart just broke into pieces. i'm just in tears right now.

i feel like that video said it all, and we should like, close this thread because this is goodbye.

this is so sad, i can't say i'm sorry enough.

we love you pippi!!!!!!


tracy (and of course, nemo)

 

[Ringer]

OMG I am a chump. I can't read these tributes without crying my heart out. It takes one of us to realize what it feels like.

When I saw that sunset I knew that dear Pippi had indeed let you know that he was OK. How beautiful and heartwarming. These buns touch our hearts in a way that is almost surreal.

I am so sorry for your loss. I often think of my Ringer and Brownie leaving and I don't know how I will cope. Ringie has been with me during bypass heart surgery and loss of clear eyesight due to diabetes. She is always there for me. Who or what could ever replace her?

 

[Ringer]

O just tried to edit but the board won't let me.

Anyway I wanted to say how adorable I think Pippi was. He reminded me of the rabbit on the cover of the rabbits annual magazine 07.

His eyes were very sweet and gentle. I would have fallen in love also.

 

[Darfi]

Dang, i'm reading all the special stories about your Pippi and I can't help the streaming tears. I just feel Prince's loss so strongly being that it happened so recently and I have such empathy for you. I look at the pictures of Pippi and I wish I could have provided a tunnel and a backyard for Prince. Atleast I got a harness and took him outside with me sometimes just to enjoy the solid Earth and fresh air. Pippi was so lucky that you found him there at the pet store. He had such a fantastic mom! He will probably out binky my Prince who was a professional Binkyer!

R.I.P. Pippi, keep my Prince company up there and tell him I miss him too!

 

[cheryl]

Crystal,it was hard for me to make that for Pippi,to look at those pictures from when he was a healthy little boy and to see how he lost all that weight,it's very sad

Tracey..i know i just love that song..it's by Linda Ronsdadt..when i heard it,i knew it was just perfect

Ringer...bunnies i think are the best medicine that you can have when someone is going through a rough time in their life,i'm sorry to hear that you had to have bypass surgery,but i'm glad that Ringer was there for you..they can be so comforting

Darfi...I'm so very verysorry that you lost your Prince ,i know he'sbinkying around and having a good ol time with my Pippi and all the other little bunnies up in Rainbow Bridge.

Thankyou for all your kind comments everyone :hug:

Cheryl

 

[Haley]

Oh Cheryl, that slideshow was so beautiful. My heart just aches for you. You have suffered so much loss this year, far too much.

Pippi was such a beautiful boy. Such a strong, brave fighter. And you helped him every step of the way. You helped him fight and you showed him love up until the end. I know without a doubt that he knew every minute how much you loved him.

But he's in a better place now; Hes with his beauiful girl and theyre watching over you until you meet again.

I know this year has been so difficult. Remember we're always here for you.

-Haley

 

[Haley]

Cheryl,

I dont know if you ever read this story but it always touches my heart and brings me to tears. I thought maybe it would bring you some comfort.

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The little orange boy stopped. Behind him, kitties and puppieswere playing, chasing each other and wrestling in the warm sunshine. It looked like so much fun, but in front of him, through the clear stillness of the pond's water, he could see his mommy. And she was crying. He pawed at the water, trying to get at her, and when that didn't work, he jumped into the shallow water. All that got him was wet and Mommy's image danced away in the ripples. "Mommy!" he cried. [/align]
"Is something wrong?" The little orange boy turned around. A lady was standing at the edge of the pond, her eyes sad but filled with love. The little orange boy sighed and walked out of the water. "There's been a mistake," he said. "I'm not supposed to be here." He looked back at the water. It was starting to still again and his mommy's image was coming back. "I'm just a baby. Mommy said it had to be a mistake. She said I wasn't supposed to come here yet."

The kind lady sighed and sat down on the grass.

The little orange boy climbed into her lap. It wasn't Mommy's lap, but it was almost as good. When she started to pet him and scratch under his chin like he liked, he started to purr. He hadn't wanted to, but he couldn't help it. "I'm afraid there is no mistake. You are supposed to be here and your mommy knows it deep down in her heart," the lady said. The little orange boy sighed and laid his head on the lady's leg. "But she's so sad. It hurts me to see her cry. And daddy too."

"But they knew right from the beginning this would happen."

"That I was sick?" That surprised the little orange boy. No one had ever said anything and he had listened when they thought he was sleeping. All he had heard them talk about was how cute he was or how fast he was or how big he was getting. "No, not that you were sick," the lady said. "But you see, they chose tears."
"No, they didn't," the little orange boy argued. Who would choose to cry? The lady gently brushed the top of his head with a kiss. It made him feel safe and loved and warm- but he still worried about his mommy. "Let me tell you a story," the lady said.
The little orange boy looked up and saw other animals gathering around. Cats- Big Boy and Snowball and Shamus and Abby and little Cleo and Robin. Merlin and Toby and Iggy and Zachary. Sweetie and Kamatte and OBie. Dogs too- Sally and Baby and Morgan and Rocky and Belle. Even a lizard named Clyde and some rats named Saffron and Becky and a hamster named Odo. They all lay down near the kind lady and looked up at her, waiting.

She smiled at them and began:

A long long time ago, the Loving Ones went to the Angel in Charge. They were lonesome and asked the angel to help them.

The angel took them to a wall of windows and let them look out the first window at all sorts of things- dolls and stuffed animals and cars and toys and sporting events. "Here are things you can love," the angel said. "They will keep you from being lonesome." "Oh, thank you," the Loving Ones said. "These are just what we need." "You have chosen Pleasure," the angel told them.

But after a time the Loving Ones came back to the Angel in Charge. "Things are okay to love," they said. "But they don't care that we love them."

The Angel in Charge led them over to the second window. It looked out at all sorts of wild animals. "Here are animals to love," he said.

"They will know you love them." So the Loving Ones hurried out to care for the wild animals.

"You have chosen Satisfaction," the angel said.

Some of the Loving Ones worked at zoos and wild animal preserves, some just had bird feeders in their yards, but after a time they all came back to the Angel in Charge. "They know we love them," they told the angel. "But they don't love us back. We want to be loved in return."

So the angel took them to the third window and showed them lots of people walking around, hurrying places. "Here are people for you to love," the angel told them.

So the Loving Ones hurried off to find other people to love. "You have chosen Commitment," the angel said.

But after a time a lot of Loving Ones came back to the Angel in Charge. "People were okay to love," they said. "But sometimes they stopped loving us and left. They broke our hearts." The angel just shook his head. "I cannot help you," he said. "You will have to be satisfied with the choices I gave you."

As the Loving Ones were leaving, someone saw a window off to one side and hurried to look out. Through it, they could see puppies and kittens and dogs and cats and lizards and hamsters and ferrets. The other Loving Ones hurried over.

"What about these?" they asked.

But the angel just tried to shoo them away. "Those are Personal Empathy Trainers," he said. "But there's a problem with their system operations."

"Would they know that we love them?" someone asked.

"Yes," the angel said.

"Would they love us back?" another asked.

"Yes," the angel said.

"Will they stop loving us?" someone else asked.

"No," the angel admitted. "They will love you forever."

"Then these are what we want," the Loving Ones said.

But the angel was very upset. "You don't understand," he told them. "You will have to feed these animals."

"That's all right," the Loving Ones said.

"You will have to clean up after them and take care of them forever."

"We don't care." The Loving Ones did not listen.


They went down to where the Pets were and picked them up, seeing the love in their own hearts reflected in the animals' eyes.

"They were not programmed right," the angel said. "We can't offer a warranty. We don't know how durable they are. Some of their systems malfunction very quickly, others last a long time."

But the Loving Ones did not care. They were holding the warm little bodies and finding their hearts so filled with love that they thought they would burst. "We will take our chances," they said.

"You do not understand." The angel tried one more time. "They are so dependent on you that even the most well-made of them is not designed to outlive you. You are destined to suffer their loss."

The Loving Ones looked at the sweetness in their arms and nodded. "That is how it should be. It is a fair trade for the love they offer."

The angel just watched them all go, shaking his head. "You have chosen Tears," he whispered.

"So it is," the kind lady told the kitties. "And so each mommy and daddy knows. When they take a baby into their heart, they know that one day it will leave them and they will cry."

The little orange boy sat up. "So why do they take us in?" he asked. "Because even a moment of your love is worth years of pain later."

"Oh." The little orange boy got off the lady's lap and went back to the edge of the pond. His mommy was still there, and still crying. "Will she ever stop crying?" he asked the kind lady.

She nodded. "You see, the Angel felt sorry for the Loving Ones, knowing how much they would suffer. He couldn't take the tears away but he made them special."

She dipped her hand into the pond and let the water trickle off her fingers. "He made them healing tears, formed from the special water here. Each tear holds bits of all the happy times of purring and petting and shared love. And the promise of love once again. As your mommy cries, she is healing. "It may take a long while, but the tears will help her feel better. In time she will be less sad and she will smile when she thinks of you. And then she will open her heart again to another little baby."

"But then she will cry again one day," the little orange boy said.

The lady just smiled at him as she got to her feet. "No, she will love again. That is all she will think about." She picked up Big Boy and Snowball and gave them hugs, then scratched Morgan's ear just how she liked. "Look," she said. "The butterflies have come. Shall we go over to play?"

The other animals all ran ahead, but the little orange boy wasn't ready to leave his mommy. "Will I ever get to be with her again?"

The kind lady nodded. "You'll be in the eyes of every kitty she looks at. You'll be in the purr of every cat she pets. And late at night, when she's fast asleep, your spirit will snuggle up close to her and you both will feel at peace. One day soon, you can even send her a rainbow to tell her you're safe and waiting here for when it's her turn to come."

"I would like that," the little orange boy said and took one long look at his mommy. He saw her smile slightly through her tears and he knew she had remembered the time he almost fell into the bathtub.

"I love you, Mommy," he whispered. "It's okay if you cry." He glanced over at the others, running and playing and laughing with the butterflies. "Uh, Mommy? I gotta go play now, okay? But I'll be around, I promise." Then he turned and raced after the others.

-Author Unknown

 

[cheryl]

Oh Haley,tears are just running down my face,that story was so precious and so sad,i'm missing my Pippi something terrible,and my other bunnies that are with Pippi now....i just hurt so much with Pippi because i watched him fade away from a healthy chubby boy,to a very skinny unhealthy boy andi tried and triedso hard to make him all better

Thankyou for posting that story Haley..your to sweet :hug:

Cheryl

 

[Haley]

I really believe that he's somewhere much more beautiful now, Cheryl.

Ive always loved that story and it makes me cry like a baby everytime I read it. I read it again the other day and thought of Pippi, your little "orange boy"

 

[LuvaBun]

I haven't posted here before now, mainly because it broke my heart . I have just looked at your YouTube video and I am sitting here crying.

Pippi touched so many here, and your fight to help him was amazing. We won't forget him :hug:

Jan

 

[cheryl]

Haley,i also believe he is up there in the most beautiful place..happy,healthy and full of life once again.......you know i haven't stopped thinking about what he went through...it feels like it's haunting me...i cannot seem to let go for what he went through....there's not a day that i don't cry....i can be alright for a while and then i just automatically start thinking about everything he went through and then all i do is cry...i know as time goes by it will get easier...or maybe it's because i'm just an over grown sook...i just don't know.

And yeah,my gorgeous little orange boy *smiles through the tears*

Thanks again Haley :hug:

Jan,Pippi was just an awesome little bunny...i just cannot believe what a battle he fought,he lost so much weight,yet he still battled on.......i just wish i could hold him in my arms again and tell him that i will always love him forever,and what a brave little bunny he was.

You know what makes this all hard and very sad for me..is the fact that he was still very alert,andhewas still the same old Pippi till the day he died,it was just his body that was leaving

Thankyou for your kind words Jan :hug:

:sad:I really really miss Pippi

 

[cheryl]

Oh Pippi...i have been thinking about you constantly and what you went through,you have been gone from my life for four weeks now yesterday,i wanted to write this yesterday but i was finding it hard to come back to your thread again.

I'm sorry for what you went through with having EC,i wish so much that i had known more about it,i felt so alone as i knew nothing about EC...and i wish that the vets that you had seen also knew more about EC,maybe more could have been done for you....i just don't know,but i do know that they all did try their best to help you,especially Dr Lee,but i do alsoknow that the whole situation has been tremendously sad for me...it's been kinda hard for me to get over your death....i fought so hard for you Pippi,you know that!....every time i pulled out your basket to go see the vet i'm sure you thought 'oh no,i'm not going to that place again' especially when you had to have weekly visits for months...but you were always brave and you were always a good boy when you were at the vets.....all the Dr's that you had seen all said what a lovely and well behaved bunny you were,it made me feel very proud that you were mine.

Those months were very frustrating for me,especially when you were having all those tests but nothing significant was ever showing up....remember how i would always complain on the way home from the vetsabout the Dr's not knowing anything much,i'm sure you got sick of me complaining...but i now realize it wasn't really their fault at all....i was complaining because i just wanted them to make you all better again.

Two weeks agoi had recieved a special card from Dr Lee,inside it says....We know Pippi will be greatly missed.Our thoughts are with you and your family at this difficult time.With deepest sympathy from Dr Lee and staff at Pet Universe.

Signed Dr ChrisLee

On the front it says....Good friends live in our hearts forever.

The only thing is that the picture is of a cat and dog...no bunny,i guess that's because the majority of animals they see are cats and dogs,but it's still lovely no matter what.

Everyone loved you so much at Pet Universe,with the amount of visits you had to have,they all got to know you,and they all fell in love with you.

I do know that your free and happy,and in a brand new healthy body now,snuggling with your baby girl Strawberry.

I'm just amazed how all you bunnies have made such an impact on my life,one i will never ever forget.

Thinking of you and the other bunnies that have left my life,always

Forever your mum

 

[JimD]

:cry4:

 

[CorkysMom]

I'm so sorry for your loss of Pippi, it sounds like he really fought hard to stay with you as long as he could.

That was a very nice card your vets office sent.

Hang in there...I hope it will get better for you soon.

 

[Haley]

Thinking of you, Cheryl. :hug:

 

[f_j]

Your post brought tears to my eyes...I'm so sorry. Pippi was beautiful.

 

[cheryl]

Yeah Pippi sure was special,it's just so hard to forget what a tough battle he fought,especially since he was such adelicate little bunny in the last months of his life,and i still wonder to this day,how did he put up such a fight while he was having so many problems

My sister and me were talking about him a few days ago,and it felt so good talking about him,but so sad at the same time...the sadness was just so overwhelming,what Pippi went through is something that i will never forget.

 

[cheryl]

I have been meaning to post the lyrics to Goodbye my friend...the song that i had used for Pippi's slideshow.

Somehow these words just seem so perfect

Goodbye my friend

Oh we never know where life will take us
I know it's just a ride on the wheel
And we never know when death will shake us
And we wonder how it will feel

So goodbye my friend
I know I'll never see you again
But the time together through all the years
Will take away these tears
It's okay now
Goodbye my friend

I've seen a lot things that make me crazy
And I guess I held on to you
We could've run away and left well maybe
But it wasn't time and we both knew

So goodbye my friend
I know I'll never see you again
But the love you gave me through all the years
Will take away these tears
I'm okay now
Goodbye my friend

Life's so fragile and love's so pure
We can't hold on but we try
We watch how quickly it disappears
And we never know why

But I'm okay now
Goodbye my friend
You can go now
Goodbye my friend

In rememberance of a very special little boy

 

[CorkysMom]

What a sad but fitting song....:bigtears:

He was lucky to have you and I'm sure thats why/how he fought as long as hard as he did...