Please help :( We had to have DDog put to sleep last Thursday. He was nearly 13 and he had Cushing's Disease and had been suffering from intervertebral disc disease since 2009. He had been going steadily downhill this year, especially after a fall in April. In the end he came down with a chest infection that took hold of his little old body and we couldn't bear to put him through another round of treatments. Our vet agreed that euthanasia was the most humane thing to do at that point.
Obviously we've been in a terrible state since it happened, all the normal grieving stuff. I felt sort of okay today, but tonight I just couldn't bring myself to throw his half eaten tin of dog food away in the general rubbish. Even more ridiculously, there are two poo bags (not empty ones!) and I know it's absolute madness not to throw them out, but I don't feel able to do it. Am I completely mad? I feel like I must be. I can't in all honesty keep a desiccated poo and half a tin of dog food, but it feels too painful to throw anything connected with him into the general rubbish.
I suppose I'm hoping that someone will tell me this is normal! And I'm wondering how on earth other people manage in these early days when the beloved pet's things are still everywhere. I'm leaving his bed etc where it is for the time being but plan to put his things away into a storage box when I feel able to do it.
I just feel so very cut up about this. I love him so much, it literally feels unbearable that he's not here any more.