I really don't belive the parent meant it like that. He said "like", which means similar, and to many people it is. Losing a cousin is different to losing a fa

I really don't belive the parent meant it like that. He said "like", which means similar, and to many people it is. Losing a cousin is different to losing a father, which is different to losing a grandfather. And all that is completely different to losing a child, right? And everyone responds differently. So you took offense because you decided he was comparing dogs with mothers. Certainly he was not; and that was not the point, after all.