son Hole, WY
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Subject: Do dogs grieve?
This question arose out of events following the sudden death of our 10 year
old English Springer Spaniel
I don't think that dogs typically grieve the way people do--they don't have
the logical thought processes to make the basic emotions so complicated, for
instance, no sense of "right" or "wrong" or "fair." However, they do know
that a pack member is missing. And hovering around a distressed human is
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This question arose out of events following the sudden death of our 10 year
old English Springer Spaniel on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon my daughter Jessica arrived for a visit and all the
dogs, Berners, Ty & Grace were bouncing around greeting her while Ariel, who
has impaired vision, was wand
