Hello to you, and absolutely we’re grateful that you’ve found us and are giving us the chance to join you in honoring your sweet Marlo. After I finish this post, I’ll add Marlo to our special memorial thread where he’ll join all our other angels. If it would please you to have us add a photo to his memorial line, it’ll be our privilege to do so. But we can talk more about that later.

Most importantly right now, I just want to tell you how sorry I am about your loss. Many people in the world don’t understand how much our furbabies mean to us, and the depth of our sorrow when they leave us. But here, we surely do understand and we will always welcome you back at any time that you may wish to write more about your boy and your lives together.

Cushing’s is such an especially hard disease to deal with, and sadly it so often leaves us with so many questions and regret. All of which can make the loss even that much more painful. I won’t dwell on my own sorrow here, but I know I made mistakes with my own Cushpup. If I could have a do-over with the knowledge I have now, some of my decisions would definitely have been different. All my friends and family always tell me, Marianne you didn’t do anything wrong. But *I* know that I did make mistakes that I’ll always regret. But I also know that there was not one minute of any day that I didn’t love him with all my heart. And that I did the best I could at the time, based on what I knew then and while struggling with hard choices and a lot of uncertainties.

Your own love for Mario shines through in every word that you’ve shared with us. Please know that we’ll never judge you here for anything you did or did not do. This is a place of safety and refuge. A place where we forever honor our dear brave companions and all that they have meant to us. So as I say, Mario will now join our other Rainbowbridge babies on our memorial thread. And we will always welcome you back here, at any time, should you wish to write more.

Sending you many hugs from across the miles. Always in loving memory of your baby, Mario.
Marianne