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Animal Grief in the 19th Century

• a2tech 10y ago
  I guess I didn't need to go through the WHOLE day without crying
  • mikestew 10y ago
    That opening picture did it for me. It reminded me of the loss of one of our dogs last year. We have a camera to keep an eye on the dogs (mainly to make sure our female doesn't chew something). At work a day or two after the dog was put down I was constantly bugged by the camera alerts, as the camera was picking up noise. That noise turned out to be our female howling away...for hours. I left work early, and worked from home the rest of that week. Few things break my heart, and that was one of them.
• jhbadger 10y ago
  Of course in the 19th century grief was much more of a thing even for people -- it wasn't at all unusual for several of your children to die young, and even adults weren't immune to various epidemics like cholera. These days someone dying before being elderly is considered a freak tragedy rather than just a fact of life.