Sad Story

Oct 18, 2006 Author: Larissa | Filed under: Pets

I know it’s really dumb, but sometimes, random times, I’m still really sad that my dog died. It’s been 6 months since Pepper had to be put to sleep, and when I heard it happened I cried for a few minutes and then I kind of made myself stop. After all, it’s just a dog right?

Well, since then I haven’t been home to see my parents (I make them come see me) because I don’t want to be there in the house with them and not have my dog there. Stupid, huh? Obviously come Christmas time I’ll have to get over that. Pepper was kind of like an annoying little sister to me, in that she was a super pain in the ass whenever I had friends over (barking continuously without stopping, even to people she knew) and I had to take care of her when my parents were gone (as in can’t be out all day and night cause I have to let the dog out).

I don’t know why I can still get so upset over it, maybe I didn’t grieve enough for my pet when she died, so now it’s kind of there in the back of my mind to pop up at random times. Maybe it’s other underlying things that are manifested in me missing my dog.

How do you get over the death of a pet? I don’t want to cry when I think about it or not be able to go home because it will be too sad. I mean, I rarely saw her the past 6 years or so when I was away in college and then even when I lived at home. The past year I only went to my parent’s house maybe four times. She wasn’t a part of my daily life at all anymore really.

So, what’s my problem and how do I fix it?

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KassyK October 18th, 2006 at 9:23 am 1

Sweetie there is no way to fix it…you have to just grieve and allow yourself to feel sad. My old dog and cat at home are getting up there in age and when my dog had a stroke I seriously spent the entire weekend just crying at home in Jers. And my cat here in DC who IS my child…its just how it is sometimes. They are a part of our lives…its ok to feel sad about it. xoxoxoxo
Twoste October 18th, 2006 at 11:20 am 2

You don’t care about the dog, but you mourn its death? How do you fix that problem?
Problem fixed it sounds like…
O-face October 18th, 2006 at 11:29 am 3

There is a way to fix it……

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098084/
Anonymous October 20th, 2006 at 12:56 pm 4

AM- That’s not stupid at all. My parents put our mini-schnauzer to sleep last Sept. and it’s still weird to go home to an “empty house.”

After 14 years, you get used to having them around and you miss them when their gone. They may be dogs, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a part of the family.

Big Sky Girl
Geoff_Livingston October 20th, 2006 at 10:18 pm 5

Losing pets is hard, you have to just grieve. It took me 3 months to get over a cat I had owned for 7 years. He was pretty cool, died of cancer. Maybe in time a new pet will come into your life.
Stef October 22nd, 2006 at 9:37 am 6

Pets are a part of the family, so it’s natural to feel grief and sadness and miss her now that she’s gone. In fact, I’d worry if you didn’t! My parents no longer have any dogs now, but growing up we had 6 of them over the years. Now that they’re all gone, we miss them, but the best times our family has now is remembering old crazy stories and laughing about silly things the dogs did.