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I haven’t lost any pets yet in my conscious age. I’m so scared because I know how much pain it will be for me

• ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
  It sucks, but it is worth it, to have them in our lives. I have had pets throughout my life. The only one I don’t miss, is a psychotic parrot, from my early childhood (given how long they live, it may still be kicking around, biting people’s ears off). Our cat (a marmalade tom) is like a member of the family. We lost his brother, a few years ago, and that was rough. I do recommend getting rescues, over breeder animals. I feel it is better for the soul. I have a friend who is in his mid-sixties, and delayed getting a dog, until he figured it would outlive him, as he hates the pain of loss. Not sure I’d want to do that, myself. I have seen what happens to pets, when their owners pass. In a lot of cases, they end up in kill shelters. https://theonion.com/we-gave-rex-to-a-nice-farm-family-vs-they-had-me-put-t-1819594265/ https://theonion.com/we-gave-rex-to-a-nice-farm-family-vs-th...
• dhosek 2y ago
  I found it a bit odd when I got a dog that I was struck with an instantaneous grief shortly after getting it as I considered the fact that I would almost certainly see it die.¹ Oddly, this has never happened with the many cats I’ve had although I have always grieved their deaths when they happened. ⸻ 1. The alternative, of course, being that I would die first.