How do you cope?

[Lobster2018]

...just that really.

We had our beloved Dalmatian pts, She was 11, had multiple health issues over the last year, we did as much as we could for her but ultimately it seemed her time to go. She was our rescue dog after being left in a barn in the middle of know where when she was 8. We have 3 other dogs yet the house feels so so empty!

Cannot shake the feeling of guilt, sadness and I just bloody miss her! I’ve never felt this low.

Any nice ideas of nice ways to keep her memory?

Oh I’m sorry to hear this op
She looks like a gorgeous girl

Can you get any art of her or a little sculpture
A friend of mine had a little sculpture of the same dog breed and then put their dogs collar on it. It sits on the bookshelf in the conservatory now and it’s a lovely little reminder of him sitting there with you.
You could get a lovely painting done of your favourite picture of her. Or there’s lots of little memory pebbles and things like that on Etsy for example, you could make a pretty little spot in the garden?

We scattered our dogs ashes somewhere he loved. That brought us a lot of comfort.
Nothing really helps tbh, we still miss our boy and talk about him often.
We got another dog after 6 months which helped give us somewhere to refocus our attentions.
But in all honesty I think time is the only thing that makes a difference. Somewhere along the lines you accept emotionally they have gone. Over time it became less raw for us. We have pictures up of him, chat about him often and still miss him.
I'm sorry

The guilt passes. I think many very brilliant pet owners feel that when they have to make The Decision. But it does pass. And what is left is the joy of having known her at all.

We lost a much moved dog last October and still have two left. We miss her terribly but we talk abut her often, moving her memory into the status of "funny things she did" to keep the stories alive. We found a small Beswick figure that looks like her and keep that on the side. Sometimes when I am out for a good walk, I can still kind of 'see' her trotting beside us with her big grin.

It always hurts, I think, But the hurt becomes less sharp.