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Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

spent2much — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:07:26 GMT

This article is SO good I wanted to share it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/out-the-ooze/201701/getting-over-rover-why-our-grief-over-dog-is-so-intense

Re: Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

NickNack — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:47:26 GMT

Thank you for posting this. It is an excellent article.

Re: Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

CamilleP — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:13:13 GMT

Thank you for sharing that article, it was indeed excellent. I think we have all, some of us many, many times, "given our heart to a dog to tear".

Re: Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

software — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 21:50:30 GMT

Excellent article.

I loved & lost dogs all my life but the 13 y/o lab Iost in November about did me in.

And I think part of it is he didn't know how sick he was and how it was going to end. He was so loyal and faiithful & trusting to the last breath.

@spent2much wrote:
This article is SO good I wanted to share it.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/out-the-ooze/201701/getting-over-rover-why-our-grief-over-dog-is-so-intense

Re: Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

Carmie — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:30:25 GMT

Thanks for sharing. The article was well written by a true dog lover who captured real feelings.

Re: Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

tarsmom — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 02:33:08 GMT

I miss my first two dogs still. After my Lab was put down (alone, by me which I thought was a good idea at the time...um, no) I/hubby decided no more dogs. Well, that lasted 3 months after I cried every night when I went to bed. I was shocked at how much I missed my boy. So I got a rescue named Riley, and he's been my bud for 7 years now! Gosh we love our dogs and now I know I will never be without one!

Re: Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog Is So Intense

ECBG — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:18:53 GMT

When we were loosing our beautiful choc lab , Molasses to prostrate cancer, I went by the vet's every day after school to hold him in the floor for several hours. He had to have a catheter . The staff stayed in tears.

Now, this dog, 12 years old, was a pup when we went through the trauma of loosing our nineteen yr old in a wreck. This may not be "doable" but it will have to be. (sigh).