sigh....... you don’t know much about some dogs do you........
I have 4 dogs, one of them lays and watches the door that I leave the house through, waiting till I come back through it. I am sure he would sit by my dead body forever, waiting for me to get up again. The other 3 would sit there until they got hungry and then they would probably eat me.
Before I get painted as a callous Michael Vick type... I have two dogs, both of which I adopted from shelters - one even though it has heartworms and might not survive them. I have no doubt they would “miss me” if I got hit by a bus and never came home again. But in the same way as I will miss the one with heartworms if it doesn’t survive? No.
I’m frequently amazed at how dogs conform to their masters and become “creatures of habit”, and also at how they behave in ways similar to man. It’s that similarity in behavior that lends itself so easily to anthropomorphism. But to conclude that similarity in behavior demonstrates similarity in cause (e.g. emotion) is an assumption without foundation.
When I say that my car doesn’t like cold weather, or that your plants seem happy, you understand that I’m referring not to actual emotions but to behaviors or attributes in some way resembling those of man.
This nonsense about dogs’ “grieving time” and “needing closure” and so forth is a trick of Darwinian atheists playing on our emotions - and on our epidemic loneliness in this ever-more-DISconnected society.