To My Pets Who've Passed Away,

You are not forgotten. I may not see you now or hear your meows down the hallway at 3 a.m., but you are not forgotten. I still think about you and love you. I still cry when I talk about you to people. I miss the way you all would wake us up in the middle of the night because you wanted more food. I miss the times where you would chase random reflections of light across the house because you thought they were magical.

I miss you all so dearly. I miss the way you all would cuddle with us when we were feeling depressed. At the end of the day, none of you would ever be mad at us. You would never judge me. You would always show me nothing but love and make me happy to come home at the end of a long day. You would think it's funny to sit on my legs when I was sleeping and I would always wake up to my legs completely numb.

You all were so playful. You would chase the laser pointer from one end of the house to the other and attempt to climb up the wall when it would creep closer and closer to the ceiling. You would decide to vomit up a hairball on the stairs and I wouldn't discover it until it was under my foot. It was always disgusting but I could never find myself to get mad at any of you for doing that. Maybe it was because of your cute, fat, furry faces.

You would always be nice to any friends and family that would stop by our house. You would change so many of my friends' minds about cats. So many of them did not like them before they met all of you, but you helped changed that. You would play with them, sit with them, and make them feel comfortable. You would all do this wit everybody because those were the kinds of pets you were.

When you all passed away, my family felt nothing but sadness. To this day, we all miss you so, so much. There is not a day that goes by where I don't think about something that each one of you did. You all brought a different ray of happiness into my family's home and we will never forget you. You weren't just pet, you were family. You were everything we needed in our lives and we are jubilated that we were able to provide you all with the best lives possible.

You may not be here anymore, but one day my parents, brothers, and I will rejoin you. We will all cross the Rainbow Bridge at our own times and together we will be reunited. We all love you so much. Even with new pets in the house now, we do not forget any of you. Some of you were here longer than others, but that does not make a difference on the impact that you all had on me and my family.

From the bottom of my heart, I love all of you so much.

Burt, Ernie, and Booo, I love you.

Love,

Josh