Addio, amico mio. Affrontare il lutto per la perdita di un animale domestico

I really was completely lost when my dearest Hannah passed away last summer. She was 11 1/2 years old and we had been companions since she was 10 weeks old. For the whole of her life we had only been apart for maybe 2 weeks in total. My life, my habits were totally wrapped up in Hannah - for good an Leggi tutto

This book has been a huge help to me as I mourn the loss of my cat due to cancer. It helped me to understand the grieving process and the stages of grief and loss. I have been having a particularly hard time dealing with the guilt of not catching her illness sooner, and this book has a chapter on gu Leggi tutto

I don't usually rate books that I haven't finished reading. This one, though, I will not finish, but I still have something to say about it. This is pitched at people who have lost pets, but it reads as if for psychiatrists who are puzzled by the grief of their patients over the loss of a pet. The m Leggi tutto

I won this book in a goodreads giveaway. I was very surprised as I read the book at how the author paralleled the loss of a pet with stages of grief and dying. I was surprised because I am a MSW, and it really never occurred to me to apply that to the loss of a pet. I am an animal lover and have usu Leggi tutto