"I have sent you on a journey..."

[crowdog66]

I just found a link to a Candle Ceremony for ill, dying, and dead companion animals. As a whole, it wasn't my cup of tea (I've never liked the term "furbabies" or "furchildren", since it suggests anthropomorphism and I've always believed in loving and respecting animals for their true animal natures, not out of sentimentality). The last line, however, hit me like a truck:

"I have sent you on a journey to a land free from pain, not because I did not love you, but because I loved you too much to force you to stay."

*starts crying again... dammit, when do the tears ever stop?*

You can find the ceremony at:

http://www.petloss.com/ceremony.htm

Elements of it might prove very effective for my 2004 Samhain ritual... we'll see.

Comments

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

i think that we'll craft something special and it will be right.

*hugs*

you can call me after 6pm k. :)

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

"furbabies"? "Furchildren"? Yaaagghhh! No self-respecting animal that *I* know personally would want to have *those* words applied to them! Least of all cats, since they still remember the days when they were regarded as living images of the Goddess Bastet... Except maybe a neurotic Yorkshire terrier I once met, but that creature had a serious identity crisis anyway!

But that last line was utterly beautiful and appropriate....