This is very well said Marsha and so true. However, I have a family and have also lost famly. I always think that if anything happened to one of my children I would go "mental". I would feel the same about Kiko. I do not know how I would handle it if anything happened to her. I do have "God" in my life so this would help me get thru this. My heart goes out to anyone that has lost their furbaby. Diana
--- On Mon, 10/13/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Chihuahuas] loss of a pet vs loss of a human To: [email protected] Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 9:35 AM 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
