I hate when this day comes...

[Robert Vermaat]

Sorry to hear that Matt.
I may know a bit of your pain, having lost (over the years) a dog, a bird, several hamsters, some fish that insisted on jumping out of the water, three cats (which hurt the most)....

I guess it's the way of things. I guess it's a bit our own fault for closely befriending creatures with a lifespan so much shorter than ours.. An aunt of mine has a parrot which she already had 30 years ago. It may well outlive her.

[Salvianus]

Right there with you, Magnus.

nonne quinque passeres veneunt dipundio et unus ex illis non est in oblivione coram Deo

Are not five sparrows sold for two coppers, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Luke 12: 6

iustitia tua quasi montes Domine iudicium tuum abyssus multa homines et iumenta salvos facies Domine

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Psalm 36: 6