These poems and stories manage to make my eyes leak every time I read them. Guess I'm just an old softie after all.

I found this one last summer when our cat was very ill. It was written for cats, but would be appropriate for dog lovers as well.

A Kitty’s Conversation
By Carol Notermann

“Where’s Mommy?” The wee small cat, asked the One who lifted it.
“She’ll be along.” His voice replied. “We’ll only wait a bit.”

“But she was holding me and crying. I felt her shoulders shake.”
“I know. You see, she made a choice, the hardest she could make.”

“But I went to sleep inside her arms?” the little cat replied.
His voice was soft, “I know, and that was why she cried.”

“I stood beside your Mommy, when the vet was bending down.
I gave her strength to hold you, as her tears fell all around”

“Will you stay with me till Mommy comes?” the kitty asked the Man.
“I’ll be here each day to see you, until she comes to you again.”

“For right beside that Rainbow Bridge, is where dogs and kitties wait,
And when you’re human’s time has come, I’ll take you both on through the gate.”

“Thank you Sir”, the kitty said, “That day will be so grand!”
And too himself he wondered “How He got the scars upon His hand?”