Reviews for Loving And Losing A Pet

The average rating for Loving And Losing A Pet based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-14 00:00:00 Ryan Metcalf I found this book to be fairly helpful. I live in a county just outside the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Much to my amazement, when my dog died, I found that there are NO pet bereavement groups in the county or within a reasonable distance in the surrounding area. So I was left to my own devices. I know something about grief, having encountered it in on several occasions in my life, so when my dog died, I was not unprepared, but it would have been so helpful to be able to share my grief verbally with other people. Unfortunately, that wasn't an option for me. So after about seven months of daily meltdowns, feeling sad much of the time, and just missing my dog, I finally ordered some pet loss books from Amazon. I have a background in psychology, so I know a decent book when I read one, and this one was. It covers many issues associated with the loss of a pet, in my case my dog, who died at age sixteen and a half after I'd had him since he was two. I know most of the topics covered in this book, but it was somehow reassuring to see my feelings written down in black and white -- guilt, sadness, loneliness, uncertainty about getting another dog -- all the issues I was turning over in my mind. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who's lost a pet, especially a dog. The next to last chapter on grief is particularly good. It mentions the standard stages of grief, but then it goes beyond that, and covers feelings of bereavement in a different way that matched my feelings more closely. I'm not through with this process yet, but this book helped me move a few steps forward.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-29 00:00:00 Lynn Brown Some of the essays I've enjoyed quite a lot but I tend to get fidgety when too much technical information is included, with the exception of the chapter on termites! I would enjoy reading essays here and there much more than reading the collection straight through. Some of the writing is in the same humorous vein as Mary Roach, the author of Stiff, Spook and Bonk. I had hoped that more of the essays would stress the high danger aspect that seems to be promised by the subtitle but with a few exceptions, it didn't feel like truth in advertising to me.