A dog or cat’s passing can stir up particularly complicated emotions. Here’s how to cope.
My first real pet was an auburn tabby named Lauren with a pinched face and a puffy tail. I picked her up in Silver Spring, Md., in September 2021, and by the time we got to my house in D.C. 30 minutes later, I was completely in love.
Ramy’s death was not Freifeld’s first experience with premature loss — when he was in college, his dad died — but he says it was uniquely painful. Before Freifeld’s father died, he had a chance to communicate with him about his death, discussing what his father wanted and making decisions as a family. Obviously, he couldn’t do the same with Ramy, a creature who looked to Freifeld with complete trust.
For others, losing a pet means mourning the constant shadow of comfort that’s accompanied them through various phases of life. While we love our parents or friends or relatives, often it’s our pets that are physically there as we traverse milestones such as moving out, getting married or having children. For 22-year-old Jackie Llanos, her schnauzer, Nacho, stuck by her side through a move to an entirely new country.
“People will grieve in isolation because they don’t want to be invalidated in how distraught they are,” Crossley says. “One of the comments people will say is just, ‘It’s a pet; get another one.’”,” or the concept that some deaths are not societally legitimized or publicly mourned. Though they were focused on example such as“The tools that we would normally use for grief, and the kind of support that we get for grief and the loss of people, we don’t get that with ,” Golbeck says.
Golbeck says a way to legitimize your grief is to find people who will take it seriously — even if that requires venturing beyond your usual circle. Demand for spots in pet grief support groups, especially since the pandemic, and online forums exist for various kinds of pet loss. At the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, Crossley opens old-school chatrooms daily for folks to talk through what they’re experiencing.
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