[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How long to grieve a pet? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 8/2/2014 5:17:29 PM EDT
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Specifically, a dog.
Had her 13 years.....what's a "normal" grieving period? Been a month and I'm still pretty devastated. |
| In the past whenever I lost one of my boxers I swore I'd never get another one. It just sucks so bad when you lose a pet you love to even think about another one. However, without fail, in about 6 months I adopt another one (or two). I do it partly because I just love pets and miss not having them around and partly because there's always a dog that needs a home. All of my boxers are rescues and giving them a home helps me get over losing the previous one. |
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Check local shelters. Get a new pup. That'll help. ETA: My Calvin passed a year ago. Had him since he was a baby. Still miss him quite a bit, even with the new dag. When we put our last down, I was pretty much a wreck until we got another one that quickly began to fill that space in my heart. |
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When we put our last down, I was pretty much a wreck until we got another one that quickly began to fill that space in my heart. Quoted:
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Check local shelters. Get a new pup. That'll help. ETA: My Calvin passed a year ago. Had him since he was a baby. Still miss him quite a bit, even with the new dag. When we put our last down, I was pretty much a wreck until we got another one that quickly began to fill that space in my heart. This. The one and only thing that doesn't totally suck about losing a pet is you get to have a new puppy or kitty! |
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Quoted: Specifically, a dog. Had her 13 years.....what's a "normal" grieving period? Been a month and I'm still pretty devastated. |
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Then I have my wife doing things like this.
I think she may be trying to kill me |
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Quoted: I lost the one dog who was truly mine 5 years ago at I miss her every day still. Quoted: Quoted: Specifically, a dog. Had her 13 years.....what's a "normal" grieving period? Been a month and I'm still pretty devastated. I lost the one dog who was truly mine 5 years ago at I miss her every day still. Same here. It gets better, OP, but it takes time. |
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my dog of 17 years died when I was 18 and overseas in korea...I'll be 37 at the end of this month and I'm just starting to think about getting another dog.
never let myself grieve because every one said she was "just a dog, get over it"...my "getting over it" was to never put myself in the situation where I had to deal with something dying. thinking about getting a black/chocolate lab...eventually. |
| My childhood dog passed away when i was in college and i wasnt there for him. I was only an hour away but i still would have wanted to be with him when he passed to at least let him know i loved him. And yes, i literally cried for days. My professors could tell how bad i was taking it and they emailed me all the notes for days I was out. About the only time i have cried in the past 15 years and that includes the death of some loved ones. |
| When our Feline Leukemia cat finally passed, she had become such a huge part of our lives that it took a while to adjust to not having to work around both her quirks and her medical treatment. Still, she was a helluva cat and we still miss her and it's been over a year and a half. (See here for the Myuo thread about her.) |
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Knew an ass would show up. Figured it would be a bit later though. Quoted:
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Til it's buried ? ? Sorry dude but it was a dog get another  No, it's NEVER too soon for an ass to roll up on GD....
OP, I don't know, I remember when I was burying the dog of my youth, a GSD/Beagle, back in '82, how alone that made me feel, I still feel the sorrow I felt when I buried my GSD/Rottie, Mox, back in 2001, just not so often and not so much. More so, our little border Collie/GSD, Azhia, whom we got when we first got married, she died in 2003, right after we got back from Italy and transferred to Virginia. The Sheltie I buried last October, Hope, still brings a thought and sometimes a tear even now. My two Collies that I have now make me smile every day, but if things work out as planned, I'll bury them some day too. Even with all that, I'd hope to have each of them pass through my mind from time to time, rather than carry as empty a soul as that poor toothandnail must... 
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Its been a lil over a year since my Choc Lab was hit by a speeding car.....
It was very bad for me, I had to take off from work when I found out. My boss was all kinds of ticked off and couldnt figure out why...over a dog. We since have gotten 2 dogs.....Although my daughters and wife are OK, I miss him and don't care too much about the other dogs. |
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I've had a lot of dogs in my life and I always realized they don't live as long as you would like
them to. When I would lose one I would think about how they were, and the joy and also the pain in the ass they could be. I looked forward to my next dog and how I could train it better than the last and wonder what personality the next one will offer. The one I have now is getting old and he is the best dog I ever had, I will miss him but the next is going to be the same breed (Boarder Collie) but I will raise this one as a pup and probably he will be even better. (got my current BC as an adult) My attitude has always been fond memories and they were great while they lasted but I can't wait for the opportunity to do it all over again. The nature of a dogs life is to bring happiness for a short time and then say good by only to let another dog give his best shot. |
| I still tear up over a lot of the pups I've had.. Rover when I was 6, Snoopy I when I was in my mid twenties, Jeb and Roxie who passed within the last 2 years but we're a 2 dog family so when one passes we are usually looking for rescue dogs after a couple of months after one passes. There's no way to replace the attitude and individuality of the deceased pup but it bothers me to think of so many hounds in shelters and I usually wind up adopting the one that looks the neediest or the one that was obviously the runt of the litter. |