It is very quite and still in the yard tonight. All of us feel the loss of one of our companions.  We may have never met her, Bitty,  but all of us are linked  and know when one has left our fold. Our prayers fill the still night and as if on  some unheard cue, we all start to howl that sadness into the night. Our prayers     race down the trail to Bitty's Ruth and Family.                I can not see them, but my big buddy Dakota tells  me the sky is full of bright stars.  I understand that there is a star for each of us. I know Bitty's star shines very bright tonight.               We thank you, Ruth,  for taking such good care of her while she was with you - River & Mike

My little girl is gone.   I want to thank each and everyone of you for the dozens of comforting, thoughtful, loving messages, and the prayers said in our behalf.  The vet did a  thoro exam and found a very tender place in her abdomen in addition to  all the other problems she developed in the very recent past two weeks.  She truly let me know she was ready to be at peace.  Her heart rate was  very fast, she had crackling in her lungs from fluids, and was panting  very hard and coughing.  I could not let her suffer any more.  I gave  her all the love and care in my power in her time with me, and now I  have given her peace and freedom from any more suffering.  With my dear  friend Ada, shwo she loved, and I both at her side, Itty Bitty passed  over The Rainbow Bridge at about 5:30 PM MDT here to be with Czar, Sandy, Spooky, Teddy, Frostie, and all my other furkids from many past  years.  I was able to hold her, kiss her, and tell her how much I loved  her until her last breath and last heartbeat, which I felt.  She took along a large piece of my heart and I have a piece of hers here with me  along with pieces of all the others.  They will help lead us to each  other when I join them all. I know she will be well again now and see  and run and play and be waiting for me to join them.  I will leave her  bed beside mine, as she left it, for awhile in case she wants to "come  back" like Czar did.  The greatest love I have ever known has been from  my furry friends.  I trust and know I have always given it back.