I wanted to repsond to the post regarding the loss of a human compared to
the loss of a pet. It is so very true that both losses are hard to deal
with. For those of us who have family and friends in our lives that we
love and who love us back, it is easy to say the loss of a pet could never
compare. But, we also need to remember that there are people out there who
have never had the kind of human love that most of us have. There are
people who their only true companionship, the only ones who have ever
shown full love and acceptance to them, has been their pets. For those
people, the loss of that pet could be so much more dibilitating. For
instance, some of the kids who have been raised since child hood in our
foster care system, from one home to another, never staying in one place
long enough to make true friends, and never being in one home long enough
to feel a sense of family, a beloved dog could be the closest thing they
have known to true love and acceptance.
Certainly not to down play the loss of a human...I have lost my father and
my brother, so I know that pain, but we need to also understand just how
lucky we are to have had people in our lives that mean enough to us that
we can know such pain. Some people only have that in their pets.
Marsha
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