I really need to know how other owners feel about this.
For me my dog is my world because he's great and I love him but also my dog was the last Christmas present that my Mother gave me before she passed away.
She had terminal cancer and when we found out her survival rate when she gave me him as a puppy 11 months before she passed. So that put a lot of significance on him because she gave him to me at a difficult time and I cherish him so much.
So as a result of that I'm constantly babying him (treating him like a king/spoiling him) and loving him like crazy and worrying that he will be ok if something bad happens because he's so special.
Sometimes though I feel like if something ever happened to him I'd lose it for awhile. I think ahead (I know that I shouldn't think like this) but sometimes I think ahead to the day where he will be gone. And it really scares me because I feel in a way when he goes then a part of my mother is gone with him. Which then leaves me wondering how I will get through tough times without him because he went through a bunch with me and kept me grounded in a time where I felt like I lost everything. I then get this horrible sinking feeling inside. I don't constantly think like this but it's hard not to because life is so precious and can be taken away when you least expect it. The thing is if she didn't give him to me I know I'd feel the same about my dog but it's just that I'm so much more attached to him now because of how and when he came into my life. I suck at dealing with death.
I've been meaning to ask on here does anyone else feel so strongly about their dog? How to cope with the feeling?
For me my dog is my world because he's great and I love him but also my dog was the last Christmas present that my Mother gave me before she passed away.
She had terminal cancer and when we found out her survival rate when she gave me him as a puppy 11 months before she passed. So that put a lot of significance on him because she gave him to me at a difficult time and I cherish him so much.
So as a result of that I'm constantly babying him (treating him like a king/spoiling him) and loving him like crazy and worrying that he will be ok if something bad happens because he's so special.
Sometimes though I feel like if something ever happened to him I'd lose it for awhile. I think ahead (I know that I shouldn't think like this) but sometimes I think ahead to the day where he will be gone. And it really scares me because I feel in a way when he goes then a part of my mother is gone with him. Which then leaves me wondering how I will get through tough times without him because he went through a bunch with me and kept me grounded in a time where I felt like I lost everything. I then get this horrible sinking feeling inside. I don't constantly think like this but it's hard not to because life is so precious and can be taken away when you least expect it. The thing is if she didn't give him to me I know I'd feel the same about my dog but it's just that I'm so much more attached to him now because of how and when he came into my life. I suck at dealing with death.
I've been meaning to ask on here does anyone else feel so strongly about their dog? How to cope with the feeling?
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