So Sad!, Loss of my friend Options

[Victoria]

Hello all
I just lost my best friend on Sunday. He was just short of his 15th birthday. He had been sick for about 2 months. I tryed everything to help but nothing did. His name was J-dog, he was a very speical dog a Jack Russell. This is the hardest thing I've had to do. I'm having a really bad day today. I have two other dogs another JRT she is almost 13, and a Lab who is 13. What a crew! Both of my other dogs are joining me in my grief. I'm worried about my Lab he too is just hanging on to life by a thread. I don't know how I will deal with back to back grief like this. The Lab is my husbands dog, J-dog was mine and my other JRT is both of ours. She is having a hard time dealing with Jays death. I try not to cry around her, but it hard because she won't let me out of her sight. I quess I need some encouragement on how to deal with her. Gosh I miss my buddie so much....

[forduffy]

Hi Victoria,
I have gotten to the point that I am sick of worrying about these insensitive people who get "tired" of hearing about it. I feel sorry for them because they never loved like we did and they were never loved like we were. I would never choose to go through life without that. I just finished reading "Rescuing Sprite" by Mark Levin last night. Well, I was hysterical for most of last night. I lost Duffy almost 3 months ago and reading the book reopened all of the wounds. I spoke to my mother afterward, who is also mourning my Duffy and she said that I have to "understand" that most people will not understand my grief. Well, to them, I say "so what". It's their loss, ultimately, not mine. How sad your life is without the joy of an animal! I am happy that we have these forums to share with people who are like us. Lately I find myself looking at people differently. I have been gravitating away from those who are not animal lovers and who do not understand and making it a point to distinguish between people this way. I guess it's my own personal bias. It's annoying to deal with the less tolerant people. So that's maybe my angry stage of grief. Sorry if I rambled. My point is that we, here, understand the sorrow and that is so helpful.