Sudden Death Of My Little Girl Options

[JoanneL]

I am very new here as I just registered last night. I wrote a new topic post but now I can't find it on the site so I am trying again. My husband took our 2 little Schnoodles out for their morning walk on Monday and a few minutes later I got his frantic call. Our little girl had gotten off her leash, run into the street and was hit and killed by a car. We took her to the ER even though we knew she was gone. I can't remember ever being so hysterical in my life. I have cried and wailed for the last 4 days.
I am so glad I found this site last night and that all of you are out there. It is so lonely trying to go through this pain. My husband and I are not really able to talk much about it yet. I know he is replaying the scene in his head and always will. We have our little boy, her brother, and he is trying to figure out why everything has changed.
Friends have said we should think to the future about getting another dog but right now all I can think about is my Zoe and the fact that I will never hold her again or get those sweet kisses from her when I get home from work at night.

[Juturna]

Dear Joanne,

It is totally understandable that you can not think of your precious Zoe without tears. I join you in this grief journey. And as Moon_ beam so eloquently stated, the grief from loosing an animal companion can be just as awful, if not worse, than loosing a human family member. For me, the grief has been more intense in the passing of my dogs, than in human family loss. Also, our society expects us and allows us time off for grieving with human losses. With my present loss of my beautiful Victoria, I did not have one day off work. I suspect you did not have much time off to grieve either.

Hope the rest of your day and evening is peaceful.
With serenity and healing thoughts,
Juturna