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Simplicity Anna Loach

Written by: Anna Loach
Date: February 22, 2023

It can be hard to believe how sad and lonely you can feel when your pet dies. To animal lovers, a pet is often treated like a member of the family. They ride in your car, sleep on your bed, they know the household routine, they recognise your voice – they know you and you know them

So it’s alright to be missing them, to be deeply sad and out of sorts – it’s like your best friend is gone.

Pet loss however, may sometimes be an unacknowledged grief which researchers have actually terms ‘disenfranchised grief’. This means that often the relationship is not valued and understood by others and therefore the accompanying feelings of loss also go unnoticed. But the grief of losing a much loved pet, a companion, is very real.

Download our self-care Factsheet on losing a pet here.

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