Newbie and Unfortunately, mourning today

[megansmomma]

Originally Posted by ClaudianPhoebe

My iphone images are too large. If you have any tips that would be great. Thanks for your kindness.

You need to email your iPhone picture to yourself and send it as small. Then you should be able to post your picture

[yorkietalkjilly]

It is a heartbreaking story, as losing an old friend always is but it sure helps to share it, doesn't it? Somehow it helps the loss to share with others who have been through it and love their dogs the way you do. I'm so sorry you lost your precious baby after a long, long life together. Your world has changed forever and adjusting to it without her will take a good, long while and is never easy. I'll be praying that your bad pain will go sooner rather than later and in time life will look happy again but sadly that will take it's own sweet time. R.I.P. sweet Phoebe. And mom, you take care of yourself. We're with you and know and feel your hurt and pain.

[JstPooh]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[ClaudianPhoebe]

So I uploaded my sweet angel's photo and I can see it in my profile but
how do I get it to appear in the left rail below my user name when posting replays or starting a thread? Duh.

[MauiGirl]

Originally Posted by ClaudianPhoebe

So I uploaded my sweet angel's photo and I can see it in my profile but
how do I get it to appear in the left rail below my user name when posting replays or starting a thread? Duh.

There are some "How to" explanations under the section of All Else. This is from there regarding how to change avatar picture:

The little picture that is posted next to someone's name is called an "avatar"; this is different than the "profile picture" that is posted on your profile page. To upload a picture to use as your avatar, look at the top left hand side of the page, and you will see the words, "User CP,

Click on the words, "User CP" and it will take you to your "control panel" where on the left hand side of the page, you will see such options as "edit avatar" and "edit profile" picture." Click on one of these, and it will give you instructions on how to proceed, and also, the file limits of the pictures.

[OneShinyface]

Oh goodness! I'm so very sorry for your loss. My heart aches for you, but I'm glad your little one is no longer suffering. She sounds like she was quite a gal!

[Tink04]

So so sorry to hear of your loss.
I downloaded an app called Image Size to my iPad to decrease the size of images to upload on here and it worked well

Sorry again for the loss of your beloved

[lisaly]

I am deeply sorry for your loss. I understand how much it hurts, and I care. Your love for Phoebe will always be a part of you since love lasts forever. There is nothing to fully take the pain away, but it will diminish in time.

I lost my last little girl four years ago, a few years after I lost her two sisters. Although Ashley was still an active little girl, she was close to seventeen. I tried reading things that I thought could help with her eventual loss, but I really couldn't prepare myself for losing Ashley. She was our life.

After two very lonely, unhappy years for us, we brought another little girl into our lives. I can't tell you how much joy, love, and laughter Katie has brought into our lives. She helped to heal our broken hearts. I read an article this weekend and the pages and pages of reader responses to that article. It might help you to read them when you are able to emotionally handle it. You will see that there are others who feel like we do about our babies. I attached a link to the article.
On Losing a Dog – Phenomena: Only Human

When I lost Ashley, the following essay helped me cope with her loss. I hope it does the same for you. If there is anything I can do to help, just say the word. If you need help posting Phoebe's photo, I can give you my email address. My heart broke reading about your loss, but I also was able to feel so much of your love.

Living Love
If you ever love an animal, there are three days in your life you will always remember...

The first is a day, blessed with happiness, when you bring home your young new friend. You may have spent weeks deciding on a breed. You may have asked numerous opinions of many vets, or done long research in finding a breeder. Or, perhaps in a fleeting moment, you may have just chosen that silly looking mutt in a shelter--simply because something in its eyes reached your heart. But when you bring that chosen pet home, and watch it explore, and claim its special place in your hall or front room--and when you feel it brush against you for the first time--it instills a feeling of pure love you will carry with you through the many years to come.

The second day will occur eight or nine or ten years later. It will be a day like any other. Routine and unexceptional. But, for a surprising instant, you will look at your long-time friend and see age where you once saw youth. You will see slow deliberate steps where you once saw energy. And you will see sleep where you once saw activity. So you will begin to adjust your friend's diet--and you may add a pill or two to her food. And you may feel a growing fear deep within yourself, which bodes of a coming emptiness. And you will feel this uneasy feeling, on and off, until the third day finally arrives.

And on this day--if your friend and God have not decided for you, then you will be faced with making a decision of your own--on behalf of your lifelong friend, and with the guidance of your own deepest Spirit. But whichever way your friend eventually leaves you---you will feel as alone as a single star in the dark night. If you are wise, you will let the tears flow as freely and as often as they must. And if you are typical, you will find that not many in your circle of family or friends will be able to understand your grief, or comfort you. But if you are true to the love of the pet you cherished through the many joy-filled years, you may find that a soul--a bit smaller in size than your own---seems to walk with you, at times, during the lonely days to come. And at moments when you least expect anything out of the ordinary to happen, you may feel something brush against your leg--very very lightly. And looking down at the place where your dear, perhaps dearest, friend used to lay---you will remember those three significant days. The memory will most likely be painful, and leave an ache in your heart---As time passes the ache will come and go as it has a life of its own. You will both reject it and embrace it, and it may confuse you. If you reject it, it will depress you. If you embrace it, it will deepen you. Either way, it will still be an ache.

But there will be, I assure you, a fourth day when---along with the memory of your pet---and piercing through the heaviness in your heart---there will come a realization that belongs only to you. It will be as unique and strong as our relationship with each animal we have loved, and lost. This realization takes the form of a Living Love---like the heavenly scent of a rose that remains after the petals have wilted, this love will remain and grow--and be there for us to remember. It is a love we have earned. It is the legacy our pets leave us when they go. And it is a gift we may keep with us as long as we live. It is a love which is ours alone. And until we ourselves leave, perhaps to join our beloved pets--it is a love that we will always possess.

~ Written by Martin Scot Kosins ~
Author of "Maya's First Rose"

[Buster Brown]

I am so sorry for the loss of your sweet baby. She had a wonderful loving life with you. God bless the newest Yorkie Angel Phoebe.

[coolcowsmoo]

My heart goes out to you. May all the memories of the love and fun you shared together mend your heart until you meet and play again.

[lakeerieprinces]

I am so very sorry for your loss ! When I had to bury my Mum, I thought it was terrible, and it was !

Losing your beloved pet is a close 2nd. Prayers sent for your comfort. ♥

[Cat2861]

I am very very sorry for your loss of your beloved Phoebe. May she now RIP without anymore pain. Just cherish the memories of the last 14 years and know that you will see her again as her healthy, perky and loveable self. I lost two of my boys in 2011 and to this day I cannot talk about them without crying, even with my husband. It's always hearkbreaking to lose someone/furbabies that you loved so much. She sounds like she was just a perfect angel!