Comment on Rehoming a pet: How to cope with the grief by Jen.
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It might seem strange but journalling and writing a letter to your pet does help. It doesn’t have to be spelt or written clearly. It just helps you process and release your thoughts and feelings.
I wrote a letter to them all just now and doing it has made a difference. Xx
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Rehoming a pet: How to cope with the grief
Just in this short space of time they have touched me so much. My room now just looks as though they were never there. Admittedly I feel more relieved at not having to care for them but I feel like they’re missing me and wondering where I am. As someone else has said, at least if they had died it would have been more final and out of my control. I know it was only temporary but I loved them so much and always will. I can’t do it again. The emotional side is too much :'(
Rehoming a pet: How to cope with the grief
Not a pet exactly but I was fostering a mum and six kittens for a few weeks and fell in love with them the day I brought them in. Unfortunately I became overwhelmed and wasn’t sleeping. I was getting more tired and the kittens weren’t letting me give them their worm medication either. I wanted to stick it out with them them but caring for them was weighing on me. I had to send them back to the charity. :'(
I felt awful as I’d bonded with them and watched them play and love each other too.. They just looked confused when I was packing up and then carting them away. :'(
I know they’ll be better cared for elsewhere but I hate that I had to give up on them and feel the same as others do here. I hope I’ll stop feeling this way.