Pet Loss Poems and Quotes

Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out ther

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip dog was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said - yet this wasn't totally true. F

A good dog never dies she always stays she walks beside you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near her head is within our hand in her old way.   Image:&nb

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.   Image: Jacek Smoter

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.   Image: Patrick Hendry

My sunshine doesn't come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dog's eyes.   Image: Teddy Kelley

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.   Image: Blake Verdoorn

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.   Image: S

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.   Image: Peter Heeling

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.   Image: Sarah Babineau

A gracious host of angels  prepare throughout the night  a place within the cosmos f or the newest wings of light.    Rising from the lives they've known  these spirits

Dogs have a way of finding the way to people who need them and filling an emptiness we didn’t know we had.     Image: Oscar Sutton

Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autum

Somewhere, somewhere in time's own space There must be some sweet pastured place Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow Some Paradise where horses go, For by the love that guides my pen I

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.     Image: No Name  

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.     Image: Leio McLaren

The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...it's also the reason they hate birds.   Image: Steffen Petermann

Looking back on the memory of the dance we shared, beneath the stars above. For a moment all the world was right, how was I to know that you'd ever say goodbye? And now I'm glad I didn't know the

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiesce

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.   Image: Borna Bevanda

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.   Image: Linnea Sandbakk

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.   Image: Emre Camcıoğlu

Though the sound of your footsteps are gone. Sweet memories of you linger on.   Image: Yiquin Tang

When anyone mistreats it, the cat wants nothing more to do with that person and will remember him or her for a long time. It doesn't believe in the doctrine of turning the other cheek and won't preten

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.   Image: Lhvin 

Cats can be funny and have the oddest way of showing they're pleased to see you.   Image: Linnea Herner  

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.   Image: Aleksandar Cvetanovic

If the grass looked greener on my side of the fence, it was ebcause my cats kept peeing near it.   Image: Marcos Ferrari

The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.   Image: Aline de Nadai

Cat, a pigmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.   Image: Dmitry Bayer

Cats are a kindly master, just so long as you remember your place.   Image: Jonathan Wiemers

Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.   Image: Japheth Mast

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.    Image: Cecilia Rodriguez Suarez

Dogs leave pawprints on our hearts.   Image: Taylor Bryant

A dog wags his tail with his heart.   Image: Sophie Elvis

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.   Image: Taylor Stark

If love alone could have kept you here, you would have lived forever.   Image:Jill Heyer

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.   Image: Rudy van der Veen

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his he

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.   Image: Leeroy

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.   Image: Justas Samalius

Your favorite chair is vacant now…  No eager purrs to greet me.  No softly padded paws to run  Ecstatically to meet me.    No coaxing rubs, no plaintive cry 

A million times we've needed you  A million times we've cried,  If love alone could've saved you  You never would have died,  In life we loved you dearly  In death we lov

Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joy ride.  Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.  When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.&n

Oh what unhappy twist of fate  Has brought you homeless to my gate,  The gate where once another stood  To beg for shelter, warmth and food?    For from that day I ceased

Oh my sweet kitty, I love you still, there’s a place in my heart, you always will fill.  I still feel your fur, and find it around,  bringing back memories of the kitty I found.&nbs

High on whispered wings I fly  A radiant star, I light the sky.    Toward the sun I soar free,  A brilliant rainbow follows me.    I pulsate through your very soul&

Let me come in where you are weeping, friend,  And let me take your hand.  I, who have known a sorrow such as yours,  Can understand.    Let me come in -- I would be very

God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be, so He put his arms around you and said come with me. With tearful eyes we watched you and saw you pass away. And although we loved you dearly,

HIGH up in the courts of Heaven to-day A little dog-angel waits, With the other angels he will not play, But he sits alone at the gates; "For I know that my master will come," says he: "And

Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, S

God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be, so He put his arms around you and said come with me. With tearful eyes we watched you and saw you pass away. And although we loved you dearly, we co

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.   Image: Andrew Pons

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.   Image: Kylli Kittus

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.   Image: Yanko Peyankov  

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!   Image: Freddie Marriage

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.   Image: Alicia Gauthier

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.   Image: Jason Blackeye

And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, w

Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love   Image: Alexander Possingham

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.   Image: Anton Lochov

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.   Image: Kristin Lopez

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.   Image: Anton Misilawsky

If I was granted one wish...I would wish that my best friend could live forever.   Image: Ed Leszczynski

Cats are only human, they have their faults.   Image: Mitchell Orr

Cats are endless opportunities for revelation.   Image: Supremelysab

In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, a cat walks with confidence   Image: Nathz Guardia

As we all know, cats rule the world.   Image: Erda Estremera

Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.   Image: mphhhh

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.   Image: Adam Przeniewski

If there is a heaven, it’s certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.   Image: Leero

My cat is not insane, she's just a really good actress.   Image: Erik-Jan Leusink

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.   Image: silviannm

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.   I

I wish someone had given Jesus a dog.As loyal and loving as mine.To sleep by His manger and gaze in His eyesAnd adore Him for being divine.As our Lord grew to manhood His faithful dog,Would have follo

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintan

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes. &n

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.   Image: Miguel Ángel Padriñán Alba

One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.   Image: 

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you prov

You were my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye.   Image: Roxanne Desgagnés

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.   Image: Loek Hertog

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.   Image: Julia Caesar

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.   Image: Zain Bhatti

God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger.   Image: Timothy Meinberg

Without my pets, my wallet would be full, my house would be clean, but my heart would be empty.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.   Image: Tran-Mau-Tri-Tam

They say memories are golden  well maybe that is true.  I never wanted memories,  I only wanted you.    A million times I needed you,  a million times I cried. If

I lost a treasured friend today  The little dog who used to lay  Her gentle head upon my knee  And shared her silent thoughts with me.    She’ll come no longer to m

When God had made the earth and sky, the flowers and the trees,  He then made all the animals and all the birds and bees,  And when his work was finished not one was quite the same 

We have a secret, you and  I that no one else shall know,  for who but I can see you lie  each night in fire glow?  And who but I can reach my hand  before we go to bed&n

Losing a dog leaves a hole in your heart,  You simply just wait for your life to restart.  The hurt is so deep that you wonder just how,  You’ll ever recover from pain you feel

I know that you can't see me but trust me I'm right here. Although I'm up in heaven, my love for you stays near.   So often I see you crying, many times you call my name. I want so m

God gives opportunities for us to love but not forever. God takes opportunities away after a while. So don't hesitate or delay or curse the darkness while remaining mired in sadness and hopeless

Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qu

You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love. The final act of love is releasing them from your leash of grief so they can be free in the h

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.   Image: Tobias Weinhold

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.   Image: Josh Couch

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.   Image: Erik-Jan Leusink

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.   Image: Alexis Chloe

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.   Image: Enidan

A million words would not bring you back, I know because I've tried. Neither would a million tears, I know because I've cried.   Image: Justin Veenema

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.   Image: Alicja Koczaska

Two moments forever etched in my heart. The moment we met and the moment you took your last breath.   Image: Pratiksha Mohanty

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.   Image: Cat Mapper (Max Ogden)

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.   Image: Stef Versoza

There are no ordinary cats.   Image: Kaiwen Sun

Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in the house. They welcome every pleasurable moment as it unravels and sa

There are many intelligent creatures in the universe and they are all owned by cats.   Image: Yuliya Kosolapova

Dogs often reminds us of the human, all too-human. Cats, never.   Image: Hutomo Abrianto

The cat could very well be man's best friend, but he would never stoop to admit it.   Image: Andrea Natali

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...   Image: Jessica D Vega

Pets are not your whole life but they make your life whole.   Image: Peter Hershey

Cats invented sefl-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.   Image: Kristin Brown

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.   Image: Manki Kim

A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.   Image: Hike Shaw

  If I should ever leave you whom I love To go along the Silent Way, grieve not, Nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there.   (I‘d come

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.   Image: Federica Diliberto

God is closest to those with broken hearts.   Image: Marten Bjork

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.   Image: Peter Heeling

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tear

Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know or at least don't accept the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs your heart is very bi

If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.   Image: Rudy van der Veen

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.   Image:Atanas Teodosiev

What we have once enjoyed 
we can never lose; 
All that we love deeply
 becomes a part of us.
   Image: Bonnie Kittle

May I go now? Do you think the time is right? May I say goodbye to pain filled days and endless lonely nights? I've lived my life and done my best, an example tried to be. So can I take that

I just wanted to let you know that I made it home. The journey wasn't an easy one, but it didn't take too long. Everything is so pretty here, so white, so fresh and new. I wish that you could close

You have left my life but you will never leave my heart.   Image: Liliana Marin

God's finger touched him, and he slept.   Image: Patrycja Tomaszczyk

Agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.   Image: Alex Pavlou

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.   Image: Myriam-Galarneau

When I needed a hand, I found your paw.   Image: Suhyeon Choi

...Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone

Mrs Gummy sleeps beneath Baby’s Breath  And who would know within her death  The lessons learned from a nature sweet  All fur and purr on arthritic feet.   Image: 

In the blink of an eye you found me  I needed a friend as did you  I was sinking into the depths of despair,  you seemed to be losing ground too.    It took us awhile but

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different w

“When will I be myself again?” Some Tuesday, perhaps, In the late afternoon, Sitting quietly with a cup of tea, And a cookie; Or Wednesday, same time or later, You will stir from

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.   Image: Dawid Sobolewski

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.   Image: Cat Mapper

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.   Image: Sharon McCutcheon

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.     Image: Paul Hanaoka

As long as we live, they too will live; for they are now are a part of us; as we remember them.   Image: Kristin Lopez

Say not in grief 'he is no more' but in thankfulness that he was   Image: Halanna Halila

Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups wit

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world wil

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.   Image: Erik-Jan Leusink

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.   Image: Chen Yi W

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.   Image: Alexandra Gorn

With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask of you, would be capable of being cats?   Image: P T

The saddest moment is when the one who gave you the best memories... becomes a memory.   Image: Liza Mann

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.   Image: Sereja Ris

When I close my eyes I see you... When I open my eyes I miss you...   Image: Darrell Fraser

Your wings were ready but my heart was not.   Image: Manki Kim

I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you; but instead I am deeply honored knowing you spent the rest of your life with me.   Image: Karina Vorozheeva

Dogs have their day but cats have 365.   Image: Steffen Petermann

It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat.   Image: Hike Shaw

  If tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not there to see,If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me;I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today,while think

  If tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not there to see,If the sun should rise and find your eyes all filled with tears for me;I wish so much you wouldn't cry the way you did today,while think

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.   Image: Chang Duong

I stood by your bed last night, I came to have a peep.I could see that you were crying, you found it hard to sleep.I whined to you softly as you brushed away a tear,"It's me, I haven't left you, I'm w

Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
 may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
   Image:Michael Mroczek

And can it be that in world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!   Image: Alexandre C

I guess you don’t really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.   Image: Samantha Lynch

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.   Image: John Price  

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.   Image: Myriam Galarneau

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.   Image: Jordan-McQueen

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.   Image: Namcha ph

Today I will be thankful for all the pawprints on the floor and the slobbery kisses on my face and the hair on my clothes. For there will come a day when there is far too much room in our bed and thes

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.   Image: Nathan Boadle

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.   Image: Rudy van der Veen

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.   Image: Artem Sapegin

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.     Image: Jeffrey Betts

One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do.   Image: Ludemeula Fernandes

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, "What's in it for me?"   Image: Paul Hanaoka

when I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns   Image: Julia Caesar

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.     Image: Luis Mézquita

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.   Image: Rudy van der Veen

Books. Cats. Life is Good.   Image: Nathan Riley

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food - which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. Asmodeus took to his toy enthusias

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pi

What greater gift than the love of a cat.   Image: Jamez Picard

The best therapist has fur and four legs.   Image: Olivier Miche

They will not go quietly,  the cats who’ve shared our lives.  In subtle ways they let us know  their spirit still survives.    Old habits still make us think 

Sunlight streams through window pane onto a spot on the floor.....  then I remember,  it's where you used to lie, but now you are no more.    Our feet walk down a hall of carpe

The lives of animals are woven into our very own being closer than our own breathing. Our souls suffer when they are gone.     Image: Karl Anderson

No wise man who ever lived could truly comfort the heart that has lost what it held most dear. Most people have experienced the loss of a loved one. So they try, each in their own way, to make you fee

There's something missing in my home, I feel it day and night. I know it will take time and strength before things feel quite right. But just for now, I need to mourn, my heart it needs to mend.

Animals are reliable; many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful, and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.     Image: Saran

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.   Image: Gardie Design & S

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.   Image: Luiza Sayfullina

The 'gift' of grief is that it presents us with the opportunity to heal and grow.   Image: Linnea Sandbakk

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize i

"I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone w

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.   Image: Nathan Fertig

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?   Image: Johnny Wang

Heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me.   Image: Seven Song

God made the cat to give humankind the pleasure of caressing the tiger.   Image: Paul Hanaoka

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.   Image: José Alejandro Cuffia

No one can truly understand why dogs are called "man's best friend" until they have experienced the loss of one.   Image: Richard N

Cats don't like change without their consent.   Image: Amy Chen

Cats always know whether people like or dislke them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.   Image: Anna Nurek

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.   Image: Elvira Visser

Goodbyes hurt the most, when the story was not finished.   Image: Wolfgang Hasselmann

No longer by my side but forever in my heart.   Imgae: Robert Larsson

Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect.   Image: Sarah Brown

There is no such thing as "Just a cat."   Image: Mikhail Vasilyev

Never try to outstubborn a cat.   Image: Cat Mapper (Max Ogden)