'Like losing a person in your family': Owners grieve beloved pets
Here & Now listeners share stories of how they are grieving their pets that they recently lost.
Why does the loss of a pet hit many of us so hard?
It’s something our listeners have been thinking about since we aired a segment with the author of a new book about grieving our pets. Dozens wrote to us to share their own stories.
Janis Dolphin recently lost her dog Felix and cat Graham within a month of each other. Both of them were 16 years old.
“It is very much for me like losing a person in your family,” Dolphin says. “There’s a long period of time where every time you get in the car, you
