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I am so sorry Grace. Huggs

I’m really sorry to hear about your dog. I had to bury a few pets of my own. I haven’t owned a pet for a few years as I’m really not up to it after the loss.

You’ll face a number of stages in this loss… denial… anger… bargaining (what if I’d done this or that differently)…. depression…. and then acceptance. The key is to recognize these emotions when they come, to hear what you are feeling and saying and recognize it is to be expected… and express yourself… to others, in a journal, etc.

i’m so sorry hun. :[ i know how hard that is.

grace281 wrote:
i want to die. may sound rediculous unless youve ever lost a pet that you were particularlly close to.

I had a little female cat I was really attached to. She was so different. She was very active. She’d run into the kitchen and demand playtime. Then she’d run into the living room and pat her favourite toy with her paw. We played aggressively with her toys and she loved it.

Every time I came up the stairs from the basement, she’d run up to the next flight and poke her nose through the bars to touch her nose to mine. I really really loved her. And she died at 2 years due to feline leukemia. I spent a lot of money trying to save her. I just wasn’t ready. The shock really hit me hard. I was so angry. I started a fight with the humane society about selling animals with communicable diseases (feline leukemia is contagious… and I had two cats at the time).

Burying her was tough too.

I’m very sorry about your loss. It’s tough to lose a little buddy when you develop such a close connection.

I love my dogs and know just how you feel.

oh sweetie i am so sorry.my dog of 15 years died on friday.i know exactly what you are going through.my heart is with you.

fenway181 wrote:
my dog died four days ago , he was smart , sweet and nineteen years old in those years he gave such devotion to me my husband , kids and my mother, he will be sorely missed , people tell me to get a new one right away , but is that the right thing to do , i am lonely and depressed without sam???

I say let yourself grieve your dog. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. you’ll feel them all.
I have lost a couple of cats. i saw one today that looked exactly like the little female one who died so young. it still wrenched my heart and i lost her 2006. i’ve put down two cats and had another die on me. i just can’t face anymore of that personally. don’t force yourself.

I had to have my dog of 12 years put to sleep in february,i was totally devastated, I went through all of the emotions, uncontrollable grief, fear, panic, guilt, depression and i swore i’d never get another dog, as i didnt want to be disloyal or replace my other dog but I think someone had different ideas and knew what I needed, a strange thing happened after I read a book ” Saying goodbye to your Angel Animals” a little dog turned up at my work which i think had been abandoned, it was petrified and it took me the whole day to gain its trust, when I did she was very trusting of me and just needed love, due to the nature of my employment I had to contact the dog wardens and have them come pick the dog up, when i asked were they would take the dog, they told me they were taking it to a dog pound in my home town, 5 minutes from my home, this was very unusual, as my home town was quite a distance away and when i asked why they told me it was the only pound that would take dogs at the weekend, i went there 2 days later to enquire abou the dog and although it hadnt been claimed by its owner it had been pre-booked by a family so i told the workers about losing my dog and they said a dog of the same breed as my dog had been brought in the evening before so I now have her and she’s so adorable and does so many unique things just like my other dog that its like my dog’s spirit lives on in this dog, I actually called her Spirit. She was the first thing to help heal me and although she wont ever replace my dog I realise I am capable of loving another dog for who it is. I still miss my other dog,still cry from time to time when I think about her but I have the love, affection and welcome wet nose at the door when I get in, the house isnt so empty anymore, i’m going on my walks again and more than anything its made me appreciate even more just exactly what an important role dogs play in our lives and just how much better and richer life is with a canine friend. Their love and devotion is beyond all love and devotion, there is no greater love and no greater pain.

P.s. You’ll never forget Sam, he will ALWAYS be with you but if you can give another dog a good, loving home thats what you should do.Ask Sam for guidance. So sorry for your loss of Sam, my heart breaks for you, I know how it feels xx