[Secret Agent Man]

There’s a subset of people here that have the view that when people lose a loved pet there should not be any kind of talking about it as losing a person. They are the kind that complain about posters who post animal abuse cases and say ‘focus on the people abuse stories instead’. Like we cannot do both. Like it devalues peoples’ problems by focusing on animals. Both are examples of the same flawed human condition. But express any sympathy for animals or those that have lost them, and we’re somehow taking finite sympathy resources away from people.

[spectre]

Our dear friends just lost their precious dog. They didn't have children, just the dog that went everywhere with them like a child. Neither of them can speak about their recent loss without crying. It's still tearing them up.

It's obvious Travolta's dogs weren't plain ole yard dogs. They have a little girl who must be grieving right now. I'm so sorry for them.