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  1. Elizabeth
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:43 am

    My love and comfort to you and Paul. And to Elvis always.

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  2. Leslie Reeves
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:43 am

    Having been thru this recently, a year ago but still recently to me, I cried thru the whole post but feel Elvis would purr,” thank you very much” šŸ™‚

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  3. Kelly
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:44 am

    I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so hard to lose a beloved pet. They are a part of our family so it hurts. Sending you lots of love and prayers for peace.

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  4. Jo
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:45 am

    I cannot find the words to tell you how sorry I am. I cried through your entire post. I recently lost the dearest little cat and a big sweet dog and I know how you feel. It’s a terrible pain. I still cry over those two whenever I think about them. My heart goes out to you and your dear husband. I hope time makes your heart hurt less.

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  5. Mary
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:46 am

    Oh. My. Goodness!!! Victoria I am so incredibly sorry to hear this about Elvis. I know exactly what you’re going through…I’ve been through it myself. It’s such a difficult thing to go through, and my heart hurts for you. Take your time and grieve ~ there’s no time limit and no right or wrong way, it’s different for everyone who experiences loss. Just know that you aren’t alone and even though I’ve never met you in person, I’ll be thinking of you. ā™”

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  6. Wendy
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:46 am

    I’m so very sorry for your loss. Hugs!

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  7. Sandi
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:46 am

    Ah, I’m so sorry. I am glad Elvis is no longer suffering any pain, confusion, or discomfort, but I’m sorry you’ve lost your feline soul. She could not have had a better home than with you, for all your redecorating, and if SHE had been a blogger, you would have been featured as Feline’s Best Family for years, I’m sure. Pain of loss doesn’t go away, but it gets incorporated into our perspective so that we appreciate the rest of our world more, if we’re wise, and wring more joy from our life’s experiences. Mourn. Breathe. Step forward. You are highly valued and loved.

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  8. Mary Beth
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:47 am

    I’m in tears…. and I’m so sad about your sweet Elvis. I know how devastating the loss is after having to put to sleep two kitties and a dog. You feel as if you’re heart is ripped out. My heartfelt condolences to you and your husband, and may your pain lessen when it needs to do that. A dear friend once suggested to me, after our cat Charlie died, to write down everything teeny tiny thing about him that I could remember and keep doing that… because we always think we’re going to remember everything about our dear furry companions. But we don’t. My heart is with you.

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  9. Susan A
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:48 am

    Elvis lived the best life ever, thanks to you and Paul. She knew nothing but LOVE. I share in your sadness with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. I anticipated this sad post on your blog and I am so sorry for your loss. Here’s to happy memories. ^..^

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  10. Madeline Antilla
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:48 am

    Your video was a wonderful wonderful tribute. So sorry for you loss, but I am so happy that you loved her so much.

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  11. Anna quackenbush
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:48 am

    Okay….my husband would tell me not to do this, but he’s not here right now. Yes, you may all think I’m bat crap crazy, but here’s how it happened to me…
    four-years-ago, two days before Christmas, I went into accute respiratory failure. I’d had a terrible case of bronchitis, one of many rounds over several years, and was just dukeing it out to get through the holidays. Early that Friday morning I realized that my little dog Bearnie was curled in his usual place in the hollow of my back. But it wasn’t usual, Bernie had been dead for 2 years.
    There were lots of sirens and people in uniforms and a fast ride, lights, noisy machines, loud voices….and my husband sitting very quietly in the corner of an emergency room. Bernie never left me. He was in my arms by then. He stood up and shook himself and turned to me with his silly grin. That was when I realized that there was a beautiful blue ribbon leash around his neck. I took hold of his leash and suddenly I was rising out of the room, up and up with Bernie dashing ahead. As I rose I became younger and younger and at each age the dog of that time came to relay me.
    It was so beautiful….the universe was filled with light and music, I could hear children’s voices singing. I realized I was on the back of a great winged creature.
    For whatever reason I looked back and I saw the Earth and realized I and many others were ascending in rays of light that emitted from the Earth itself. I could see all the way down into the emergency room and saw my husband sitting crumpled and silent and my heart broke.
    Then I heard a voice say, “don’t be worried, this time it’s your choice.” And immediately I dropped the leash and fell from a great height landing back into my body.
    Welcome back! I felt like a six year old trying to wear a body 50 years older. I tried to tell them what had happened. My husband smiled and called it my ‘beautiful hallucination’.
    It turned out that I was much sicker than anyone realized and the health issues have changed my life, radically.
    But, I’ve never forgotten my beautiful hallucination, nor the comfort of my dogs coming to claim me. sometime later I heard a very old hymn I had heard only once before and I started to weep. ‘Why are you crying?” Glenn asked. “Because it is the song I heard the children singing during my beautiful hallucination.”
    I have every faith you will see and hold Elvis again….and you will be filled with joy!

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  12. Patty/NS
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:48 am

    ? So sas to read that Elis, such a sweet lovely kitty soul, has passed. It will take a bit of time before you adjust. Because that is all we ever do, adjust to them not being there. For me I never get over the loss, I think you may feel the same, and that’s ok. Talk to her – she is still with you, this I believe. ??

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  13. Melissa
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:49 am

    So very sorry for the loss of your precious Elvis. I heard a bell so I know she got her wings and will be watching you from kitty heaven. Our precious pup of 14 years is battling cancer and I dread the coming day when we have to put him to sleep, for now I am treasuring each moment with him as I know you did Elvis.

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  14. Jane
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:49 am

    I’m so sorry for you and Paul, Victoria. Elvis was a beautiful cat. I’ll be thinking of you guys.

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  15. Amy in StL
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:50 am

    Elvis knows you loved her, you adored her – she knows.

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  16. Katie C.
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:50 am

    Ok, you made me cry. It brings back everything I went through with Chloe Cat. I feel your pain.

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  17. Patty/NS
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:51 am

    Sorry for typo meant Elvis of course!

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  18. Susan
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:52 am

    No matter how necessary that moment becomes it is still the hardest decision anyone will have to make. It can only come when you reach a point of acceptance that you are doing this FOR her, not TO her. Forgive me for not watching the video yet, but I could barely read the whole post, for feeling your hurt so deeply. I understand that empty spot in your arms all too well.

    And although Elvis is not, and never can be, replaceable, when my furbaby died my father sent me this:

    http://www.eoneill.com/texts/blemie/contents.htmhttp://www.eoneill.com/texts/blemie/contents.htm

    and although it too, made me cry, it also gave me a level of acceptance and understanding of what I had to do next, that I wanted to share it with you. It was written in 1940. with so much love. About a dog. But it’s timeless.

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  19. Sue J.
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:52 am

    deepest sympathies. a horrible system indeed.

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  20. Alena
    August 9, 2016 @ 10:53 am

    I am sorry to hear about Elvis. Death of a beloved pet always makes me cry – because no man is an island and that applies to the passing of animals, too.

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