On 4/19/2019 5:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-04-19 4:54 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 4/18/2019 2:37 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> I just came in form burying Sonny, our Malinois rescue. His time was up
>> I'm sorry to hear this but least you gave him a good life.
>>
>
> Now we have another pet problem. Our new dog is in serious grief mode.
> He wasn't too bad until last night when my wife took out for his night
> time pee.Â* He suddenly got really upset and insisted on going back to
> the house. He ran upstairs and hid behind a chair instead of beside me
> like he usually does. Instead of sleeping in his bed where he usually
> does, he slept by the kitchen door.Â* After his morning walk he
> disappeared again and we found him sleeping under the dining room table
> where Sonny used to spend most of the day.Â* He would not eat his
> breakfast this morning and he even refused the offer of some bits of
> fish when he had diner.
>
> The odd thing is that we got this guy a year ago. He was 6 at the time.
> He seems that he had developed a much stronger attachment to Sonny than
> we had thought.
>
>
I truly believe that pets grieve when they lose a "friend", even though
the attachment might not be apparent to us humans.

I used to cat-sit for a former neighbor. Even though the cats didn't
hang out together, the other cat was clearly upset when the first one
left [taken to be euthanized after having a stroke] and didn't come home
again.

Jill