On 2019-04-19 6:00 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/19/2019 5:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>> 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.Â* 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.
>


My friend and his wife usually have at least two dogs. He told me that
they once had an English Setter and a Jack Russell Terrier. They had to
have the setter put down and the terrier when into depression. He would
not eat and lost so much weight they had to take him to the vet. They
got another dog and the terrier perked right up.

Over the 42 years we have lived here we have always had at least one dog
and more than half that time we had had two. This is the first time
that one of them has gone into such obvious grieving. This little guy
is really upset.