The Moment After: Surviving Pet Loss

The Moment After: Surviving Pet Loss

The world has just ended. Your pet — your friend, your confidante, the companion who was always there for you — has died. Dog, cat, horse, bird, hamster, ferret — species doesn’t matter. Age doesn’t matter. All that matters is the huge hole that has just entered your...
The Moment After: Surviving Pet Loss

Helping Children Cope

Pets and children seem to just naturally go together. Researchers who study child behavior and development have come up with a number of complicated explanations for the reasons children and pets mesh so beautifully. They speak of the numerous benefits children derive...
The Moment After: Surviving Pet Loss

Pre-Loss Bereavement” and the Power of Bargaining

There is a stage of grief that one hears very little, if anything, about. It’s the hidden stage, a stage that friends and family may have difficulty understanding. It’s a stage when people are most likely to ask why you are grieving — because your pet hasn’t even died...