I couldn't do that because it would make my eyes well up so much I couldn't see to sew! (That's the main problem with dogs. They just don't live long enough!)

Read what the piece says----they are here for a reason. Yes, it's VERY hard but they are in our hands and we have to do the best we can for them. I foster for a dog-shelter and they send me the aged and crippled and sick because I'm a retired nurse. I have a dozen little boxes of ashes that will go in my grave with me some day.

This one "gets to me" just like "The Rainbow Bridge" chart gets to me. My tears would be dripping on the fabric....

So sorry for your loss. We've known that pain 3 times now. DD recently had lost her beloved rottweiler. Mystic Stitch has a pattern. rottweiler-serenity, that looks like him. She doesn't know it but I'm stitching it for her. She may not get it before Christmas, but I know she will love it.

P.S. Sorry, the company of the rottweiler pattern is White Willow Stitching. My bad :/

Sorry to hear. Nice job you did tho.

Thank you all for your expressions of sympathy. Wow there are really a lot of dog-lovers out there!

I have been a veteran dog rescuer and had saved the ashes of each one to go with me after I am gone. While I was ill, my DH buried them and won't tell me where. I was and am devastated, as each dog taught me a different love, and special miracle. Hold the good memories forever.