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Still holding space in my heart for Twinkle and all of you. My tears feel like a privilege. Cuddling our loyal old girl every chance we get now, in honour of Twinkle, and Hope, and all our best canine loves xxxxx

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This resonated with me so very strongly, I can't quite put it into words. Thank you. I'm so sorry to hear about Twinkle. I don't have the words to express how much pets mean to me, so I have no words to match how we feel when they pass. Being (metaphorically) near to those who have this experience and connection to their pets means so much, thank you.

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Meet her in a dream and watch her run 🥹

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Warm regards Emily.

As a devoted mate to a number of dogs over the years, I know your loss and the sometimes challenge, of a new puppy.

Hope can wear thin, but 'this too, will pass'.

Love your posts!

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Oh Emily. 🐾💔

They are everything. I would cry every evening when I sat on the sofa and she wasn’t there, wasn’t by my feet, my own snuggly foot rest. It’s heart breaking. My boys would cry at random remembering her soft muzzle, her soft snuggles, her gentle nonjudgmental love.

This poem probably won’t help with the tears 😭 but it’s beautiful.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58568/and-i-will-consider-the-yellow-dog

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Popping in a ko-fi to help with vet bills https://ko-fi.com/emilywrites Xx

Losing a pet is never easy but the love we got to share with them when they were here makes it so worth it. Sending love and warm hugs to you and your whanau

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Big hugs Emily and many thanks for your heartfelt honesty 🤗🥰

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I've just got over your last comment about Twinkle. Now I have more tears for you. And sadness. Losing a beloved pet is one of the roughest gigs I know

Ok if you stay in bed some days

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The worst part of sharing your life with much-loved animals is the difference in life span. It always hurts, every time you have to say goodbye. She would have known how much you all loved her

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Thank you. I am another casualty of the eggman's systematic destruction of our economy to the benefit of a few. I have hope, I'm relentlessly optimistic actually, but it never hurts to get a vitamin shot of remembering not to give up xo

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Aroha nui Emily. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other; and one day there will be a little less pain, and a little less, and then just the beautiful memories you made with Twinkle will remain.

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Having a cry too. Yes the world seems so awful and hope so hard to find. And I am so so so sorry about this awful bit of icing on the shittest cake of sadness, losing your precious dog. I remember you on the podcast years ago laughingly referring to her as 'your favourite child". What a wonderful life you made for her. How loved your family made her feel. How treasured and cherished to the very last moment. How terribly hard this must be for you - but how easy and pleasant you made things for her, when she must have had a rough start and what could have been a rough life. Instead you turned it into one where she came to know only love, care, safety, respect, affection, warmth and security. Sending you so much love and sympathy.

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Ah yes I feel this with my whole being. I can't express with words how much I feel this.

Take care of you <3<3

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Yes…meet her in a dream❤️

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I still dream of our old dog Sandy. She died in 1990.

A beautiful creature. Sounds like Twinkle was beautiful also.

Don’t give up.❤️

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I'm so sorry for the loss of your beloved Twinkle, and I hope the hard edge of that pain will be soon be softened by the joy she brought to your life. If it helps a little, the absence of a hyphen in "after life" made me laugh: "And now you have to just sit in your dead dog... 🤔"

Sending love x

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