One of my parrots died today. I am pretty crushed. She was very close to me and it happened very suddenly. I am very heart broken. I can't sleep I have already decided to take a day off work. I am feeling pretty low right now and would just like to hear from others who lost pets and how you dealt with it.
dealing with the loss of a pet
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Sorry about your loss.
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is never easy... Pets included, as they are essentially members of your family.
Condolences...
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is never easy... Pets included, as they are essentially members of your family.
Condolences...
Get another parrot asap, it will fill the empty place in your heart. Even if you have other parrots, a new one will give you something new to focus on.
There isn't a magic solution. You just have to grieve for them as you would a family member, because that is what they are.
Yeah I haven't been eating or sleeping i am an emotional wreck. I haven't been this depressed since c-36 got announced and just when I am getting over that this happens. She was my favorite bird and losing her so suddenly has just ruined me. I am having trouble breathing and can barely walk. It is like I am dying myself.
When my dog passed in 1999 on Dec 18, yes one week before Christmas, I was lost for that week. I have no memories from that week.
One day he passed away, next thing I remember it was a week later, Dec 25, and I am having Christmas dinner.
My point is, as others have said, ... time ... it will heal the hurt.
One day he passed away, next thing I remember it was a week later, Dec 25, and I am having Christmas dinner.
My point is, as others have said, ... time ... it will heal the hurt.
I agree wiith this, i will help you get over your loss quicker, and keep your mind occupied.
Emotional pain can manifest into physical symptoms. So don't be alarmed about that.
Like all loss and death, it will take time. I am sorry for your loss. I don't know if replacing your parrot right now is the best answer based on your emotional attachment to this one. Waiting and giving proper time for grieving my just be best even though it sucks shit big time!
Don't hold the emotion in. Let it out. Scream, shout, cry. Whatever you feel you need.
Take care, and again sorry for your loss.
IMHO if I were you I would book 2 amazing SPs today & get a litre alcohol of your favourite whiskey or bourbon to down before you go to bed tonight... Variations of this may work but essentially just spoil yourself!
i just took her to the animal hospital to be cremated. I put her in nice box i found. put some of the best cloth I could find on her and put some rose petals on her. and then said a prayer. I don't know why I did that. I'm an athiest, but I didn't know what else to do. I sent her off. She's no longer in pain now.
Judging by this, I think you do believe in something. We did the the same, for a 22 year old female cat we had, she had a good life with us, and passd away of natual causes. My dauhjter was devastated.
Three weeks later, when I got home one night, I found two new kittens roaming the house and my daughter, with a big smile on her face. She had saved them, from a schelter.
This is never easy.
After my cat passed two years expectantly within hours I removed his blanket and bowls as well as the litter box. Anything that reminded me of him essentially. Gradually the grief started to dissipate.
I waited around three months before adopting my new guy. That was just the right transition period for me emotionally.
My deepest sympathies.
After my cat passed two years expectantly within hours I removed his blanket and bowls as well as the litter box. Anything that reminded me of him essentially. Gradually the grief started to dissipate.
I waited around three months before adopting my new guy. That was just the right transition period for me emotionally.
My deepest sympathies.
I'm sorry for your loss, as others have mentioned it's always so hard to say goodbye to a pet who is not only a part of your family but an integral part of your everyday life. It's not easy to go through your day when there are so many reminders of things that you enjoyed with your parrot, but if you can focus on the positive, remember the good times and fun you were able to share, it can make it easier. Parrots can be such amazing birds, they are wonderful communicators and express so many feelings that we can easily identify and relate too, think about how you were lucky to be a part of that, to share in a relationship that was so enjoyable for the two of you. Clearly it was a relationship that you were both better for being a part of, she had someone that loved her and cared enough to take such special care in her arrangements, for a parrot I can think of nothing better than having that one person they know loves them.
Like you I am not religious, I identify as atheist as well, when I think of death and loss I try not to think of it as an end but simply as a transformation from one state to another, her energy and the particles that made her who she is are still a part of this world. She may now begin another journey, becoming something else, a part of her will live on in the wind that rushes by on a warm autumn day, she may become a part of a tree bringing new life into the world or she may become the star stuff we all started as. She's still here, just not in the organized form you knew her as.
Hang tough man. I used to scoff at people who came unglued over the death of a cherished pet until it happened to me. Now I completely understand what you're going through and am truly sorry for your loss, and the emotional pain I know you must dealing with. Deepest sympathies for your loss!
Take as much time as you want/need.
When my previous cat died, it was more than 4 years before I was ready to have another pet in the house.
