On 4/19/2019 7:54 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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 theÂ* terrier when into depression. He would
> not eat and lost so much weight they had to take him to the vet.Â* 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.Â* This is the first time
> that one of them has gone into such obvious grieving.Â* This little guy
> is really upset.
>
>
I'm sorry to hear it! Make sure he gets attention but I'd give him a
little bit of space for a day or two.

Jill