wow

[jimpierce]

Yeah, just wow. I only share this with you all as I know you understand.
Here I had been thinking today about saving my pennies nickles and dimes to get a new cage for Cricket.
I was pondering this idea as I finished up work today and checked my mail.
A couple were from the vet's office. I knew one was a bill. Kind of late, but there is was anyway. lol
The other was a card. A "sorry for you loss" card.
I know I'm deep into this and have had feelings big time, but I dropped to my knees when I opened the card and the vet had had enough presence of mind to keep and send me...............

Benji feathers!!!

[Buy A Paper Doll]

Oh my goodness. Feathers. What a kind vet you have, to have held on to some feathers for you.

[FuzzyAga]

Ahh, let the tears flow.

You are amongst kindred spirits. Like pennies from heaven, you have feathers from heaven.

[Janie]

I'm so glad that he was thoughtful enough to do that, Jim!

[personatus]

Thats ones awesome vet you have there! that's great.

[bookworm0550]

how sweet.

[lemonypickett]

That is wonderful.

When Marley died, I too got a hand written note. It makes you feel better at a time like this because our vets are often very vested in our birds too. It is nice for them to think of us.

[michael]

All too often we hear about vets who continue to adhere to the old method of professionalism. Saved for the thought that it would otherwise be too much of an emotional burden to constantly cope with possible death situations, I find it hard to believe this sort of attitude still exists. Afterall, any good vet should know regardless of the outcome, both pets and their guardians need not only to be healed physically, but emotionally as well.

Thanks for sharing with us your experience with a most caring and thoughtful veterinarian. Certainly, this is what its all about.

[Jally]

You have a very sweet vet! I love my vet. We recently had a tragic accident with one of our parakeets and she offered to keep him for a few days at her home and then bring him to work with her to get him eating better. He died the first night :o( When I went to pick him up, she had a card with him and didn't charge me for his stay.

[Angelic vampyre]

My vets sounds like yours when my Budgie died i went to pick him up and they had wrapped him up and put a flower on him ready for me to bury him. Then a week later i got a sorry for your loss card with his feathers in it as well. Granted it made me cry for a few hours but it was what I needed to do.

[Enko_chan]

I had the same thing from the emergency vets at Angell Animal Hospital. It both broke and warmed my heart.

Hugs to Jim & scritches to flock.

[Flip]

Awww, Jim, that's such a nice thing for your vet to have done. Your post made me tear up.

[linda040899]

Jim,
That was very thoughtful on the part of your vet. They know how much Benji meant to you and are sensitive to that.

[Pips mom]

That was nice of your vet, although for me, I already keep some of their feathers.

[wilkiecoco]

Wow - that Vet is a keeper. What a thoughtful, touching gesture. How wonderful that you get to have his feathers as a memory. :)

[cp.lovebird]

What a kind and caring vet you have Jim. I too, teared up when I read about Benji's feathers. (((hugs)))