Why does the loss of a pet hit many of us so hard? Dozens of listeners wrote to us to share their own stories of losing a beloved friend.
It’s something our listeners have been thinking about since we aired a segment with the author of aJanis Dolphin recently lost her dog Felix and cat Graham within a month of each other. Both of them were 16 years old.
“He was a lot like me,” Dolphin says. “I'm kind of a Type A who works real hard all the time. I'm busy a lot. I live in my head a lot. He was a lot the same way."Both Felix and Graham would tag along after her while she worked on the farm. Graham kept rabbits out of the garden and mice out of the barn.
Early one morning, they were setting up at the Whole Earth Festival in Davis, California, when a man sat next to them and started playing the didgeridoo, the long wind instrument. "I don't think we're good at talking about grief,” she says. “But I think animals might be a good way to cross that barrier of opening up. And it's a beautiful way to share our common humanity."
The sweet shepherd was older though, and just a year after Schneider got her, Storm tore her ACL while playing with some puppies at the park. Schneider knew she would have to put Storm down when she lost her ability to walk — and Storm was too old to have the injury repaired.
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