Heidi: Is the love of an animal worth the loss?
I really need a support group for someone who gets too attached to animals. I CAN kill a fly. Not a ladybug or spider. If I see a dead dog or cat in the road, I come home a different way. This seems pathological. So when I lose a pet, the grief is overwhelming. We were in Antarctica for one month from mid-December to early January and found out, by email from our house sitter, that Heidi, our 12 year old German Wire haired Pointer died in her sleep. Technically, she was my husband's dog, but she was like a child to both of us. In 2006, I had the year from hell. In addition to my father dying, our young German Wire haired Pointer, Emma, either ran away or was stolen. We were heartbroken. So, I found another dog on Petfinder. She was a 9 month old German Wire haired Pointer and was in Texas. Her owners lived in Mexico and left her at a Petsmart in Texas because the wife was pregnant and they didn't have room for a dog anymore. So, while she is technically a rescue, she neve