[EinNYC]

I just lost my Maine Coon Bijou 4/4/20. There is not a day that goes by without me weeping for the loss of her. My heart goes out to Mr. Levin, because we’re both going through the same thing now.

[Secret Agent Man]

really, any pet owner who loves their pets.

i empathize.

[jmacusa]

I hear you. I have had to put many a good doggie and cats in my life. Broke my heart every time. I had a beautiful cat, “Scooter’’, God Almighty was he handsome. Stripped black, gray and white, white paws, with a tawny underbelly and what a mouser. I live on the edge of The New Jersey Pine Barrens and have a big back yard. A couple of mice got in here over a period of some months years ago and got everyone of them. Five in all.

But my boy got sick, an inoperable brain tumor so... miss him a lot.

[RoosterRedux]

There is no friend like an animal friend. No love like that.

I have lost many, many of my best friends (my cats). But oddly, the pain that was once like a knife in the heart turns into a kind of sweet sorrow over time.