We just lost our 12 year old girl. It was a sudden passing on 25/12/19 and we have two other dogs 10 years and 7 months. Our 10 year old is really missing our girl. He's not eating; they were both brought up together as puppies. I know he's grieving as is our 7 month dog as our girl was like a mum to her.
I know I can't take the pain away from our boy dog/dogs, but how can I try and make the process of their grieving as comfortable as we can. The whole family are grieving atm, but I'm really worried about our 10 year old boy. He knows she's passed. We brought her home from the vet hospital when our girl passed for the family to see her before we took her back. Our boy sniffed her and when we laid our girl on our bed our boy came and laid over her and just stayed there.
When he's in the house he runs straight under our bed in our girl's sleeping spot. He's looking for her all the time or just lays there looking sad. They have never been apart. Our 7 month old dog is missing her playmate she was so loved by our girl. She's eating, but not at her fullest.
Plz help.
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I am so sorry you and your pets are experiencing the pain and grief of losing a companion. Please take a few minutes to read the information at healthypets.mercola.com/
Keep in mind every situation is different. Use your instincts to guide you in assisting your dogs through this difficult time. From my personal experience patience is an absolute necessity. Your dogs will pick up on your emotions so it's important that you try to keep an upbeat attitude when interacting with your dogs even though that is a difficult thing to do.
I am so sorry I know how hard this one is. My female dog did the same thing when our male dog died. It was hard to see her go to his favorite resting place and stay there all day long and not move. She did not want to really ear for almost 3 weeks. What we did was give her a lot of attention, take her for very long walks, and take her swimming as much as we could in the lagoon.
You and your fur kids have my deepest condolences on your loss. May your girlie's memory always be a blessing.
Time is the best thing for moving through the phases of grief.
Keep blankets and toys with your girl's scent for the others to use and be comforted. You said your 10 year old is already using her bed. That is good. That will offer comfort.
Be sure to offer regular food and water. Maybe make the food a little more enticing by adding a little low salt broth or a few scraps of cut of white meat of chicken (canned white meat of chicken is a good offer up at a low price).
If you feel the pups are getting dehydrated, talk to your vet about using clear Pedialyte to supplement water (they can tell you how much based on the weight of the dogs). Sometimes you have to use a syringe to put it in their mouth (the plastic part, no needle).
Offer both pups as much love as they are willing to take. You are all grieving so you all need to be easy with each other.
Post back with an update.
The pain of losing a loved one, especially a child, is terrible. Dogs grieve as well. The best thing you can do for the entire family is to be on some kind of a schedule.
So sorry for your loss, this will take time, make this time special for your family and pets,doing fun things to celebrate your fur babies life!
I am sorry to hear about your sudden lost :(
Best to give lots of love and reassurance to your two dogs now. Some treats, nice extra walk, lots of hugs or anything your dog loves to do! Talk to your dogs.
There are lots of tips and pointers online:
Example of some:
Spend more time and focus on their needs & provide extra love
Purchase a new toy, bed, treat
Lots of playful activities
& etc.
Thank yous all for your thoughts and direction I will give these a go, I am of work for two weeks so I have spent ever time and energy on our dogs. Our 10yr old boy is only eating a little now I have to hand feed him as his normal food he turns away but slowly taking from my hand which a habbit I dnt want to do. Little walks 10-15mins for him as even I'm scared incase he mite callasp with dehydration or from not eating. Hes water intake is little potions he walks away from everything. It's worse when hes outside he just sniffs around and goes to there bed they sheared its so sad. I'm trying different things with him especially as our 7 month is eating and picking so we have seen progress in her but our boy is losing weight.
He drags our girls blanket into the house and takes it under our bed were they slept but we are trying to let him grieve and at the same time giving him alot of love and comfort. We will keep a watch over the next day and see if I may need to take him to the Vets. He looks for me all the time and he wont leave my sight when I'm around and I wont leave his.
Time will heal it's just when I'm not sure but we got keep trying and hopefully things will pass.....
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