How does one re-attach a little chunk of one's heart that broke?

Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose

Location: Canadian Prairies
I am a little down at this time and a little chunk of my heart broke off and I don't know how to fix it. Yesterday afternoon my 10 year old sweet little parrot died in my arms. She was in her 'moulting stage' and when so, gets overwhelmed with fatigue but this time, it was too much for her and nothing one could do other than keep her warm and hydrated. She was attached to me all day Tuesday and yesterday for warmth and love. It is hard for me as she was my 'sunshine' past ten years and still had ten more years to go. She was such a special presence in my life...I loved and taught her so much over the years. The presence of 'silence' bounces off the walls...this morning was especially hard to bear as I usually take care of her before I head out to the horses and all and my breakfast. So there was that pocket of time just for her that I didn't know what to do with. Thanks for listening...at times I simply have to write it down to pass on. Her name was 'Baby Rosie' right from the beginning. She was not quite four months old when I bought her.
 

Ruby Rose said:
I am a little down at this time and a little chunk of my heart broke off and I don't know how to fix it. Yesterday afternoon my 10 year old sweet little parrot died in my arms. She was in her 'moulting stage' and when so, gets overwhelmed with fatigue but this time, it was too much for her and nothing one could do other than keep her warm and hydrated. She was attached to me all day Tuesday and yesterday for warmth and love. It is hard for me as she was my 'sunshine' past ten years and still had ten more years to go. She was such a special presence in my life...I loved and taught her so much over the years. The presence of 'silence' bounces off the walls...this morning was especially hard to bear as I usually take care of her before I head out to the horses and all and my breakfast. So there was that pocket of time just for her that I didn't know what to do with. Thanks for listening...at times I simply have to write it down to pass on. Her name was 'Baby Rosie' right from the beginning. She was not quite four months old when I bought her.
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Baby Rosie had your love right up to the end, which must have given her so much comfort.
No matter what kind of pets we have, it's so painful when they leave us, and I can relate to the emptiness you feel today.
 
So very sorry to hear of the loss of Baby Rosie, Ruby.

Dear husband and I have wanted a dog for as long as we can remember, but neither one of us could bare the loss of a dearly loved pet, so we have never been able to take the plunge and get one.

Hugs to you.
 

That's so hard..
For you especially, and for us to read.
I think of all the dogs that have passed and everyone was special.
Now I am thinking of the pain you are going through, assuredly the same pain I and others have felt.
The heartbreak just hit me like it was yesterday.
So in a way, we feel your pain.
Sorry for your loss.
 
Sorry to hear about the loss of your sweet, little pet. Take the time to grieve for her. You will see her at the Rainbow Bridge some day. (I like to believe there is a Rainbow Bridge even though it is corny. It helped me to imagine such a thing when my cat had to be put down 2 years ago.)

Rainbow Bridge
 
Thank you everyone for your loving inspiring posts. They have meant a lot to me. I never believed I would feel this way as we have moved so many times and had many many pets of all kinds along the way. I have always tried not to get to attached. The thing is I bought Baby Rosie for me when I arrived in the Prairies ten years ago...freshly widowed. We bonded and it was an exhilarating experience for me. She practically lived on my shoulder when I was inside. Thank you! Parrots as a rule do live for a long time...my daughter and her husband who live next door have two parrots and they are both hugging 30 years of age. Size of the parrot, apparently, does make a difference.
 
Sliverfox said:
Ruby Rose,, Having lost our beloved dog in October,,,understand the hole in your life.

I made a space in the yard for her,,its got a little fence & a plate I had in the basement.
The plate has a girl releasing a dove,, to me,means gone to wait for us at the rainbow bridge.
It takes time to heal.
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Baby Rosie is in a little coffin in my freezer at this time and will be buried in the little pet cemetery in the Spring. She will have company.
 
Ruby Rose, a beloved pet is priceless, I can only share with you how we dealt with a cat that died just short of her 20th birthday. Like Baby Rose, our cat, (her name is China-Doll,) didn't have to go to the vet for that awful, dreaded syringe. Instead Baby Rose lived, loved and died, your friend, just as you were her's. Knowing that helps with the healing process.

In the summer China-Doll would sleep in the warm sunshine outside the workshop door that is my wife's cabin. The cabin door would be open and China-Doll liked to keep my wife company.

And she still does, we bought a big, earthenware planter pot, part filled it with soil, laid China-Doll to rest and covered her over. Once the soil had settled and had been topped up, my wife planted a rose bush in the planter and at the base is a small statue of a sleeping cat. The name of that rose is: "Sweet Memories."
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