The loss of a pet

44 of 44 peo­ple found the fol­low­ing review help­ful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Get­ting Help with the Grief, Octo­ber 8, 2001
By
“pat­tiel“
This review is from: The Loss of a Pet : New Revised and Expanded Edi­tion (Paper­back)
Three weeks ago, we lost our 8-year old Boxer, Tay­lor, to Lym­phosar­coma. We took her to the very best Oncologists(several of them), spent thou­sands of dol­lars in try­ing to keep her with us for as long as pos­si­ble, but in the end we knew it was time for us to let go.

Not hav­ing chil­dren, the pain of los­ing such a lov­ing ani­mal was beyond my expec­ta­tion of grief. When I researched the list of books on pet loss, I was look­ing for facts on how to deal with this agony and pain. Dr. Sife’s intro­duc­tion and chap­ters on this sub­ject mat­ter was a val­i­da­tion that what me and my hus­band were feel­ing and going through were normal.

Dr. Sife’s case his­to­ries through­out the book were very help­ful in apply­ing what other peo­ple have expe­ri­enced and what we were going through.

For any­one who has recently lost a pet and is look­ing for some insight on the feel­ings they are expe­ri­enc­ing, I highly rec­om­mend this book. He is very fac­tual. If you are look­ing for a spir­i­tual or reli­gious aspect, this is not the book. Although Dr. Sife does touch on this sub­ject in a chap­ter, the basis for the book is the psy­cho­log­i­cal aspects of los­ing a mem­ber of your family.