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“There are people who feel more comfortable with animals than with people,” she adds. “So losing those relationships can be really, really difficult.”People who haven’t experienced pet love may struggle to understand what it’s like to lose it. They may think they are being helpful by saying, “It was just an animal,” or “They were lucky to have such a loving owner.” But pat phrases, no matter how well-meaning, can make grieving owners clam up and feel alone.
“You feel like you can’t talk about it because people aren’t really empathizing,” says Annalisa de Carteret, who manages a telephone helpline and other pet-loss support services for Blue Cross, a U.K. animal welfare charity.“Just allow that person to talk about how they’re feeling, and you don’t need to comment,” she says.Avoid clichés like, “‘Oh, you can get another pet’ or ‘He had a good life, he was a good age,’” she says. For the owner, “that doesn’t make you feel any better, because you knew all of those things. You just feel sad and just want someone to listen and to understand.”
The Asnières-sur-Seine pet cemetery first opened to the public in 1899. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)The Asnières-sur-Seine pet cemetery first opened to the public in 1899. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Another tip: Don’t assume that an owner’s grief is commensurate with the size or type of animal they lost, or the length of time they had them. The death of
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