Lady, my beloved mixed-breed, was my best friend for almost 18 years. I also asked God to take her about a month before she died. Within several hours after her death, I told my husband we had to go to Adopt-a-Pet RIGHT NOW! He thought I had lost my mind. I know that Lady sent me because a baby “Lady” – her twin – was lying on a pillow in the kennel. She is now our adorable Brandy and has every nuance that Lady had. She was truly “Heaven-Sent” by Lady’s spirit to us.

Linda from Ohio

My precious beautiful Bonniegirl went to the rainbow ridge on April 24, 2004. I had her for 12 years. She was the love of my life. She went everywhere we went, sitting on my lap in the front seat of our van. She would bark at cows and lick the window and turn around in my lap to get any kind of snack I offered her. She was an angel. She loved snuggling on the couch and she slept ON the foot of our bed every night (not on the floor, but on the bed with us). She was a gorgeous buff colored cocker spaniel, who sat patiently on the kitchen floor each time I groomed her. I got her when she was 5 weeks old in 1992. She was as my little girl. When she died, she was coming to me, down the hall and to the kitchen where I was, looking up with the expectation that I was going to save her, but she dropped at the foot of the kitchen counter and was gone. It was a heart condition. My husband tried to bring her back but couldn’t. She did suffer the last couple of months of her life and through all my grief, I realized that she no longer suffered. I wanted her to live forever but she couldn’t. I will always love her so, her photos are everywhere in our home and I use her name as my email address and other important stuff. She will never be forgotton. I lit a candle for her at In Memory of Pets.com, a wonderful website.

Mark, I love you so much and believe every single word you say on your radio show. You are so great (of course). Thank you for being such a great lover of your Sprite and Pepsi and Griffen. God bless.

Bonnie from NC

I don’t know when I will get a chance to get my copy of your book, but I’m going to have to read it for the dreaded day when I will actually lose my dog Freckles.

You have to understand something that makes my story with “Freckles” that is more painful even though “Freckles” is still alive.

For starters “Freckles” while he has been getting old (he’s 13 years old now) he seemed to be in good health until a couple of months ago when my roommate woke me up and said they thought Freckles had a stroke or something because he was walking around and acting weird.

For the next couple of hours I went through the Hell you went through with Sprite because I was debating if the Vet told me that it was something horrible I would have to put him to sleep (fortunately the Vet thought it was an orientation problem and given a couple of weeks he appears to be normal again). You see while those emotions ran through me a second set of emotions that had been burried for a long time resurfaced.
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I lost my best friend Cody on Valentines Day 2007. I adopted him from the Humane Society in 1994, when he was about a year old. I miss him so much. He added so much love and joy to my life. I felt I needed to pay him back, so I recently adopted Rosie, a “Death Row Dog” from gingerspetrescue.org. She had a very bad skin condition and was so sad when I got her. She is a happy, healthy, and much loved dog now. I think Cody would be proud of me. I miss you so much baby.

David from WA

I resuce animals..right now I have 26 large dogs, 16 cats, 2 horses and 2 pigs. Recently I had to help my sister put her Chow “Bear” down. Bear came to us via visiting my Dad’s grave on a cold snowy day in December ’93. He was always the perfect gentleman. No recreational barking, no chasing other animals and the perfect “protector” of my elderly mom and aunt. I have helped many beloved pets over the Rainbow Bridge, but this time it really hit hard. I can’t let him go and I talk to his ashes everytime I go to my sisters house. So..I understand your feelings and may God bless you and your family for helping a wonderful animal that needed you.

Sandy from TX

We slso had to put down our Shar-pei dog Velvet in March 2007. She was 15 and a half. It was the hardest thing we have ever done. We took her to the vet Monday morning but could not do it. That evening she was screaming with pain and we call the vet at home and we cried a lot. I still cry and have a picture album. I usually cooked her food but I was gone for a week in March and my wife had to feed her canned food. That was the time the poisoned dog food was discovered. I think that may have contributed to her death but will never know. She was the love of our life and I have ordered two book. I am sure I will have many tears but will enjoy the memories.

James from Missouri