Pet Memorial DVDs'

The Pain Of Loss - Dealing with your grief

Muffin, our sixteen and a half year old black American Shorthair went into acute kidney failure on December 29, 1994. Despite intensive treatment we were compelled to put him down on January 2, 1995.

With his death a part of me died as well. My arms ached to hold him just one more time. I yearned to feel the beat of his heart... the warmth of his body... the comforting sound of his purr.

The anguish I felt (I later came to understand) was natural. It is part of the pain that comes with the loss of someone you love.

Often, however, the loss of a companion animal is made that much more difficult because others in your life do not understand or appreciate how deep the attachment to a pet can be. They fail to understand that the death of a pet is sometimes more painful than the death of a person who played a part in your life.

The opinion of others at this difficult time in your life is not important. You alone know how much you have lost... you alone know how devoted your loving animal friend was.

No wonder then the pain of loss is so great... no wonder that your heart is heavy and your spirit bleak.

But, if you allow yourself to be sad and to grieve for what you have lost, the bleakness will eventually pass and the pain will diminish. In time, you will be able to fill the aching void left by your companion's passing with the warm and loving memories of your pet that will sustain them in your heart... forever.