Pet Memorials: Finding the Perfect Words

The other day I met with a sweet woman to show her different stone samples so that she could pick out a couple of pet grave markers for two of her family dogs that had passed away, one in 2007 and one in 1989. As often happens, when we got to the part of writing down what she would like to say on the markers, she got choked up. It is so difficult to actually say the parting words to your dear old friends out loud. This part often chokes me up too. If anyone else is crying, I cry. I can't help it.

I thought that I had heard every possible epitaph for an animal that could fit onto a pet memorial marker, as thousands of orders for these have passed through my hands, but when she said the last line, after the name, and after the years spent on earth, my jaw dropped. She said that this was her husband's sentiment:

"How two species can so love each other . . .  "

Need I say more?

Have a beautiful day,

Colleen