Pryderi Jackel, 1996-2009

[summer_jackel]

He was powerful, gentle, fierce, magnificent. I would not be who I am without him.

Born in my arms, died in my arms.

Rest gently and goodbye, my love.







(older)








(yesterday)

Comments

[lyosha.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry. Sleep well, Pryde.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was time. It's just hard on me.

[teahound.livejournal.com]

Rest in peace, Pryde... He was such a handsome man....

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thanks. He was pretty incredible.

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

*hugs* It's never easy.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

it really isn't.

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I knew this was coming, and I've been preparing myself for it for months now, but it's a little shocking how unready I felt, still feel. I think we were talking elsewhere about how different each grieving necessarily is. I don't yet know quite how to interact with a world that no longer contains Pryde.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

I'm sorry, Summer.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's appreciated.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Mes plus sincères condoléences...

Goodbye Fluffmonstah. You were a beautiful creature.

"We don’t live so long, you know, the big and the small." - André The Giant

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And that is a beautiful quote. Made me cry, although that's not exactly difficult to do right at the moment.

[noahbrand.livejournal.com]

No dog could ask for a better owner, or a better life than you helped provide. What matters is not when we depart the world, but how we lived when still in it. Thanks to you, Pryde had a hell of a good run.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I tried so hard to give him the best life I could. He certainly did it for me.

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

::bows head for a moment::

Pryde, you were a wonderful companion and a beautiful spirit.

A very big hug for you, jackel.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This is really hard.

[dollbunny.livejournal.com]

Oh Summer, I'm sorry. You two had a wonderful life together and
Pryde knew he had the best owner, someone he could depend on and love with full returns.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He was very good to me, and I tried to be the best for him I could.

[martes.livejournal.com]

My condolences.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[cal-foxx.livejournal.com]

I'm so very sorry for your loss, hon. I know you love all your dogs so very much, and it's always hard to have to say goodbye. Just know he's there waiting for you at the Rainbow Bridge, if you believe as I do that is.

HUGS for you and yours.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He was so dear.

[justblieve.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your loss

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[ladyringo.livejournal.com]

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

I am sorry for your loss of Pryde, but I also celebrate what was a long and love filled life. <3

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. We had a really wonderful life together.

[kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com]

Even at the end of his life, he had a presence that few dogs, even giant dogs, can command. I am glad to have met him, and sorry for his loss.

I wish love and healing to you and to your pack. May the center remain strong and safe, through entrances and exits.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I am so glad that you saw him, and that you understood. Pryderi was unlike any other. His loss, as of any deep love, is irreparable.

Still, I find that the preparations I tried to make for this inevitability seem to have held, more or less. Getting Chaos pup while Pryde was still here was emotionally risky, but it worked---Pryde liked him, and they had some sweet moments, and I have some sweet memories of them together. Having a new puppy but not a strange new puppy, and one who vaguely recalls but is still an entirely different sort of animal than Pryde is really helping me through this. My pack still feels whole. Even Jez is confused, but not panicky.

[tinygalaxies.livejournal.com]

Love be with you and the pack <3

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. We're all trying to adjust and be with each other.

[alcimines.livejournal.com]

There's a funny thing about dogs. They actually have life all figured out -- far better than we humans do.

Humans want so many things. So many that they usually can't get more than a few of them.

But all a dog really wants (well... except for maybe ten meals a day) is a pack. A dog that lived and died with their pack had the only kind of life a dog wants. Give a dog a pack, then you've given them greatest thing they can possibly have. If that happens, then there is nothing to mourn when the end finally comes.

Reading your journal, I'd have to say that you give your dogs a great pack. I can't say that Pryde understood that, but I'm sure he loved it.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I try to maintain a solid pack dynamic; it is the best way for all of us to live. And the rest of them are really helping me through this.

[skye-ds.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I am so sorry :-( *hugs*

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It needed to happen, but it is very hard right now.

[talynwolf.livejournal.com]

*hugs real tight*

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[yathin.livejournal.com]

:(

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. :(

[canineatheart.livejournal.com]

*hugs tight* Again, I am so very, very sorry. He had a wonderful, full life, than so many other dogs miss out on. You were amazing to him.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He was really an amazing companion.

[t-rex.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry. He was beautiful.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He was such a magnificent guy.

[saigh-allaidh.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry for your loss, I wish you and the pack left behind much healing. I hope Pryderi is having a grand time on the Otherside, that there are beautiful woods and beaches to roam until you all can be reunited.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This is a bad one. Still, the image of moving through the woods with all of them, my whole pack, all the ones I've lost and have and ever will have, is beautiful and soothing.

Hugs and Comfort Nuzzles

[mooncatx.livejournal.com]

And dear the flesh that is lost
the spirit ever abides,
All the days that spirit has known only love
Love forever keeps by your side

May sorrow gentle for you, while the joy of shared life hold ever strong.

Loves for Jackel
Mooncatx
=^,,^=

Re: Hugs and Comfort Nuzzles

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

/sniffs/ Thanks, Moonie. This is proving to be even more difficult than I had anticipated, all of my preparations aside. I miss him a lot. But we had a really good life together, and I am so grateful for it.

[chiere.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter how ready you think you may be, or how hard you try to prepare yourself, you never are, and it never works. Big hugs to you and your pack from us and ours.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And you're right, all of my preparations helped, but you can't really prepare for something like this. I'm coping, though.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

A good dog who had a good life.

No regrets, no time wasted, shared lives. That's all one can ask for besides another dozen years or so. Take care

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And I surely do wish I could have another dozen years with him. I can hardly believe he's gone. I'm so lucky I got to share my life with him.