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Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Lillian Brady on 4/21/2025, 4:51 am

It is with a very heavy heart that I am letting all of you know that Herbie has gone over Rainbow Bridge. He graced our home for over 26 years. We will miss him deeply. Fly high our special boy.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Cindy AZ on 4/21/2025, 11:29 am, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

Oh I’m so sorry. That’s a ripe old age.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Diane on 4/21/2025, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

I'm sorry for your loss.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by seesthru, TC Advisor on 4/21/2025, 2:42 pm, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

O Lillian, I am so sorry! Handsome Herbie was one of my favorite little birdies! He's going to be very much missed . I know you loved him so very much, and he loved you right back.

Fly high, Handsome Herbie, You are indeed a very special boy.

Lillian, I'm so sorry.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Lillian Brady on 4/21/2025, 4:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

Hi Seethru, it has been a quiet day here for the most part. It breaks my heart to hear Blaze calling for Herbie. I know he misses Herbie and doesn’t know what happened to him. They were buddies.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by seesthru, TC Advisor on 4/21/2025, 5:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

Oh gosh, that is so very heartbreaking. Let Blaze know you're there, talk to him lots. I know he will probably keep calling for Herbie... but it might help.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Lillian Brady on 4/21/2025, 5:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

That’s what we have been doing all day. As we go past his cage we stop to talk to him and even talk to him from the living room. This way he gets a response from one or both of us.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Seesthru, TC Advisor on 4/21/2025, 10:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

Good, he's going to want constant reassurance for a while. Send him Auntie Sees' love, and love from all hsi birdy cousins here.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Lori on 4/21/2025, 3:16 pm, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

I am so sorry your birdie passed.

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Cathy on 4/21/2025, 3:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

Lillian, I'm so sorry. I know that he was so special to you, not that they're all not. But he was your funny guy, wasn't he?

Cathy

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Lillian Brady on 4/21/2025, 4:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

Cathy, yes he was my funny one. I still remember most of his antics. He used to sit on my head and bang his beak on the top of my head or try to make out with my big toe. We will definitely miss him. XO

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Seesthru, TC Advisor on 4/21/2025, 5:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

I remember you telling us about how he was always making out with your toes. I remember how I'd cringe, because if a little talon touched my feet, I'd probably have jumped through the roof! You definitely were a loving parront, to be so tolerant. My feet are way too sensitive for talons, even little ones!

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Cecilia on 4/21/2025, 6:13 pm, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

I am so sorry for your loss.

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Posted by Nancy on 4/22/2025, 3:40 am, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

I am so sorry for your loss…it is always so hard to lose one of our precious feathered friends

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Gina on 4/22/2025, 10:51 am, in reply to "Over Rainbow Bridge"

I'm really sorry, Lillian. I lost my Bailey two weeks ago yesterday and I am still a bit lost. Seesthru told me she believed I would get a sign from him that he is alright and I deeply believe he DID send me one yesterday. I am cautiously skeptical as I know hope can sometimes get us onto the wrong track. However, this one came out of the blue and had to do with something he KNEW about me, internalized about me and is hard for me to discount.

Maybe Herbie will send you and Blaze one as well.

I am really sorry for your loss!!!

Re: Over Rainbow Bridge

Posted by Cathy on 4/22/2025, 3:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

I am so glad that he returned to comfort you!

Cathy

I believe they do send signs

Posted by Seesthru, TC advisor on 4/24/2025, 12:54 am, in reply to "Re: Over Rainbow Bridge"

I really think they do, or something does send signs sometimes, to say it's all okay. I remember after my cat Simon passed away, I was devastated It was just me and him against the world, back then.

Afterward, for a few months, I'd get in bed, but still be wide awake, and I'd feel him hop on the foot of the bed, walk up the bed, and plop down inbetween my knees. It was so real, I'd reach down to pet him. I think it was a way of comforting me, and letting me know he was okay. That was how it started. After that few months, it gradually faded away.

It's happened since then, with the birds, and my Mom. Different signs, or in my Mom's case, a clear "Hi Lisa" in her voice, as loud as if she were standing in the room with me.

Usually it's more subtle than those two instances... but it's always clear to the person being given the sign.

Yeah, it sounds kooky. I'd never have believed it either, but it happened to me. Many times.

Re: I believe they do send signs

Posted by Gina on 5/14/2025, 10:24 am, in reply to "I believe they do send signs"

I do too, now. Bailey has sent me a few, one in particular that won't make sense to anyone but me and can't really be explained. A couple others: I found that the pictures in my phone inexplicably (as there aren't very many of my boy) switched from what I had pulled up to pictures of Bailey. I can't explain that away.

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