How did you deal with losing your pets?

Well their is really no easy way to answer that as even my mum thinks of the dog as a part of the family. The last dog we had a furnell for and it is burried in the back yard with the others we had since living here. I guess you just have to get used to it slowly like we did once they go. It really is not an easy thing to do as our pets last over a decade normally.

The loss of a loved one is the hardest to deal with. For me it is just living day to day. The thing I did first was to completely remove anything that belonged to my pets so that I can heal faster. I found that if you keep somethin of theres in the house like a bowl or a toy when you look at it you are reminded of them tend to break down and cry all over again. Some people get another pet maybe diffrent color or diffrent species, either way everyone deals with loss diffrently.

Dealing with the loss of anything is always hard but I believe it is harder when dealing with the loss of a pet because a pet becomes a part of one's family . You have them for so many years and spend all your time taking care of a pet that it becomes just as much a part of the family as anyone else . Over the years we have had the loss of many pets and it has always been hard on everyone in the family and have always found the best way to get over the loss is to move on and get a new pet to love and take care of . Not really to replace the loss of your old pet but to add another pet to the family that will have meaning to your household as well .

i have a cat once...just an ordinary cat though but it has 3 colors..her name is tigress! i still feel bad since i wasnt there when she left and i dont know where she is right now.

it is really a sad thing when this happened on me .and it is really ever happened on me . I ever lose my loved dog and my love cat , when we could not find them at all, we feel so upset and try our best to look for them . but after our effort, we still could not get them back. we lose them and don't know where to find them . it is so bad luck and so bad feelings when this happened. all of my family feel we lose some important things in life. maybe your parents are right to don't have any pets.

Hi,TinaCL! Well,losing pets is really bad.Because for the pet's master,the pet has already become a family member in home.If one of our family member lost one day,how do we think about it or deal with it? If my pet lost,I will be very sad.Maybe my first reaction is doing nothing but crying...

It is very difficult to deal with. I feel like they are my family, and the pain is very deep. It hurts, to me, the same as loosing a person. Time helps the pain not to be 24/7. But, it is always there. I went 5 years without a pet, after loosing my last pet, a Siamese at 17 1/2 years. It has been 14 years, and it still hurts. I miss him, and now have 2 cats. But, no more after this.

I had pets at home the whole time I was growing up. They became very special in our hearts. Mom and dad always sat us down and discussed with us that animals are not with us as long as our family members are. That when one passes away it is alright to grieve but not to keep it there for a long time. Whenever one of our pets would die within a week we had another one to love and cherish.

Losing a pet is like losing a child for me. Maybe not quite as bad, but it feels like it! However, I know that life is about losing and saying goodbye. No one goes through life without going through that. So, I deal with grief just one day at a time and remember the good things. The old line, "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." holds just as true for pets as it does for human relationships. I have buried the cats I have lost in a special flower bed and made my own little stone for them. That helps me. (See picture)

Losing pets for me and the kids is like losing a family member and it is rough times. I have came to the decisions as we have lost alot of pets over the years that if something happens to our four cats i will have no more and not because i dont love them because i do but i believe that is why i dont want no more. A friend of mine chooses not to have pets and it is not because he dont like them he had pets growing up and loves animals. But like he said he trys not to get and attachment to animals cause when you do they die or run away and i thought that was amusing till i really thought about it and it is so true.

There is a black cat in my family. I don't like him, because I feel he is too magical. He is ok after falling down from 4 floors. I hate his eyes, they are too terrible. But my dad like him, he like my dad too. Oneday, he lost, I heard someone stolen him and eaten him, because he went to their house and ate fish. Frankly, I am sad to hear that although I don't like him. He is too small to protect him, human is too terrible for small pets.

You know what Tina? I really love pets that's why I really cried when I gave up my pit bull. I've prayed that if this dog is still for me it will come back to me and it did in one weeks time the other owner called me up and told me if they can return the dog to me. That was the most wonderful thing that I heard that day!

It's well said that ,,it feels bad to loose someone which is just close to our heart,,but we shouldn't forgive that every life has stat and end, it u will apply a practical fact in your daily life it will helps u lot.

i don't actuallylose them...because they are all in my HEART.. :)

Hi TinaCL I know the feeling quite well. I had to have one of my favorite cats put to sleep a couple of years ago. She had gotten cancer too. I dont know how I survived it. But after she was gone the house was so loney. I couldnt take it. So I went to the animal shelter for kittens. And guess what? They didnt have any kittens yet. So I went to another shelter and no kittens. So long story short I had to wait about a month for kittens. Im so happy with what I have now I have 2 sweeties this time Molly and Maggie. I think thats the only way to ease the hurt is get right out there and get another one.