It is important to realize the pain of losing a pet, especially a dog. When we lose a dog, it is like losing a family member for some.
The article, When Rover Dies: Why Your Grief Over Your Dog Is So Intense, by Frank McAndrew states,
“Your own pet is never “just a dog.”
My wife and I recently went through one of the more excruciatingly sorrowful experiences of our long married life: the death of a pet — the euthanasia of our beloved dog, Murphy. Losing a dog is hard enough; setting the time and date in advance and then counting down the hours that we had left with her was almost more than we could bear.”
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