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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1

I lost a Chihuahua years ago, right out of my back yard, standing not 10 feet from me......I have LIVED this nightmare, and there is NOTHING as horrifying as seeing your baby getting carried away by a preditor.....except for maybe watching them break your babys back, and watch the damn bird eat your paralyzed baby in front of you, on the ground where they hit her........Christy weighed around 8 lbs. and was probably "too big for them to carry her away".

Every time I read about this in one of your posts I try to put myself in your place and, of course, never can. No way the mind can accept this or manage to process what going through that experience can ever be like - it just is one of those things too horrifying to deal with in the imagination. I don't know how you managed the reality of it and stayed sane. Must have haunted you for years and years every night trying to sleep and first thing during the night, every morning when you wake and when you thought about her, saw her pictures, saw her things. Must be one of, if not the, worst experiences of losing one's beloved pet I've ever heard of. I can't imagine how you must hate hawks. I know your story has kept me much more vigilant than I ever was before when Tibbe is out. It's a story one never forgets.