Most are sorely missed. You wrote a fitting but sad tribute. Nobody can ever convince me they are simply dumb animals but are instead all God’s creatures. Seeing them suffer tears my heart out.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 (King James Version)
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.