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Yes losing a pet is hard, very hard, in fact, I've never been through anything so hard, even after losing my dad, and that was hard.(don't be mad pop)
I began to suspect the reason it is harder to lose a pet is because our human loves know they will go someday, and they understand it.
There is no way to explain it to a pet, or to comfort a pet, because the pet lives in perfect innocence of the future.
We adore them and treasure their love so much precisely because they live for the moment in the present.
And because they do that , the love between us and our pets is total, unconditional, and unquestioning.
No cat or dog ever asks, 'Why don't you make more money" or "Why can't you be more like the person next door?"
All they care about is that you are YOU, and everything in their lives.