What is your view on this. If you have one or two dogs or cats and one passes away, would you get another one soon?

What is your view on this. If you have one or two dogs or cats and one passes away, would you get another one soon? It seems some people feel they are not allowing themselves to mourn the loss of their beloved pet, and others feel that it gives them something precious to rescue and to care for and keep them from dwelling on their loss.

I know how I feel, now tell me how you feel and why. Asked by Doglover928 51 months ago Similar questions: view dogs cats passes Pets.

Yes, I think I would. Not only for my family and myself, but also for the remaining pet. If they are bonded to another pet who passes, they may pine for that loved one.So I feel that getting another animal would give the surviving pet something else to concentrate on.

However, if it ever happened (we have 3 cats), I would not get an adult cat, I would get a kitten. The older pet doesn't need a rival, they need someone who will fit into the family, who they can train, who they can "put in their place" without having knockdown fights, which would probably happen with a new adult addition to the family. Our cats are members of our family, so for me (us), the wellbeing of the remaining animals would be paramount.

Sources: personal experience .

I do it for the other cat left behind When my mom's 20 year old Simese died(this was years ago) she was in so much mental pain over it(it was a horrible death) even though she had another cat. There was an abandioned 3 month old kitten at our appartment complex and even though she said NO NO NO as soon as I brought her over, my mom fell in love and the male cat seemd to like her too. Shes 14 now.

I live with my mom now because we rescue cats and 4 years ago when her male cat died of cancer, we went to a famous resuce place in Ranch santa fe and planned to adopt a male cat...well they talked us into 2. My older female seemed to grow younger with these 2 little kittens around. We now have 6 cats--all adopted/rescued.

I think animals offer us so much more than just being "our" pet.....when I lost my sister and I was all alone...crying..it was my black female cat who sensed the trauma and came and sat in my lap and rubbed her face against mine. They are like family............except you got to PICK them.

Pet death I had six parrots (lories and lorikeets) just a few years ago--3 bonded pairs. The female belonging to my oldest male died. I debated replacing her, and instead decided to allow him to share his daughter with his son (not for breeding, for companionship) and that worked great.

Until the daughter also died, about 8 months later (turns out she had defective kidneys from birth, which neither I nor my vets ever picked up on. The vet who did the necropsy said it was amazing she lived to be 15 years old--she had only had half a functioning kidney at the end). Then I had two sad males and no female.

I bought a female from an online ad, it was a scam, I lost my money, never got the bird. So I bought another one, a retired breeder with a crippled foot. I had her 22 days and she died of something she already had when I got her.So I gave up on getting replacement females for those two birds.

They are too old (19 and 14) to tolerate a baby (and I don’t want to start over again) and it’s too hard to find a "used" female who is over 10 and needs a home. (They hate each other, so I can’t keep them in the same cage.) Then a few weeks later my cat died. (I had 4 pets die on me in 11 months.

It was a VERY bad year.) My other cat was devastated and so was I. But I like to buy my animals in pairs, and if I got a kitten, that kitten would be alone in a few years when that old cat died. And my husband said under no circumstances were we going to have 3 cats.

This spring the old cat got diagnosed with cancer. So I placed an order for a pair of kittens who would be ready around the time the old cat died. And now I have 3 cats, because the old cat hasn’t died yet (he’s 2 months past when he was expected to) and the kittens have cheered him up so much he regained the 3 lbs he’d lost and has started sleeping in the bed with us again.

The cat who died had been my special lovey-boy cat and I didn’t WANT another cat, because in the back of my head I worried I would never love another cat as much as I love him, but the male kitten I’ve got is such a great cat that I already love him just as much. You can’t think of it, ever, as "replacing" your lost pet. There will always be holes in my heart shaped like the animals I’ve loved and lost, even the one I only had for 22 days.

But if I bring in a new cat or bird or dog, it distracts me from my grief. Some people mourn differently. I know that I was not ready to get another cat until a year had passed since my other cat’s death.

But I was ready to get another bird much sooner, because the relationship I have with my birds is different than the one I have with my cats. My birds need other birds more than my cat needed other cats. Does that make any sense?

And if I owned more common parrots, I would have replaced my two lost females already. The photo is of my old cat (white) with one of my new cats. Sources: my pet blog: 360.yahoo.com/bertpiedmont .

NO! To me, my two cats are two of my children, and therefore not something that is easily replaceable. I have grieved more over the death of some of my past pets than I have over some human beings!

Pets are "innocents"; human beings are not. If you lost a child to death, would you immediately adopt (or make) one to "take its place"? I think not.

The only people who seem to advise you to "just get another pet" after you lose one, seem to me to be mostly the kind who either don't have pets, or who treat their's like property. I grieved over my last cat for two years, before I adopted the two I now have.

1 When I posted my answer, I guess that I was just selfishly thinking of MY own loss. When my last cat died, it was an only cat, so she left no grieving cat behind. After reading the other answers to this Question, however, I now realize that if I lost one of the two cats that I now have (who are sisters), it might be in the best interest of the remaining cat to get her a little kitten to help her with her own grief.

I'd have to "play it by ear", though, as older cats don't always get along with new ones--no matter what the circumstances. Personally, I hope that both of my current cats lead extra-long and healthy lives, so I won't have to worry about such a situation! As I said, I love them like children (and, yes, I DO have a human family as well)!

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1 When I posted my answer, I guess that I was just selfishly thinking of MY own loss. When my last cat died, it was an only cat, so she left no grieving cat behind. After reading the other answers to this Question, however, I now realize that if I lost one of the two cats that I now have (who are sisters), it might be in the best interest of the remaining cat to get her a little kitten to help her with her own grief.

I'd have to "play it by ear", though, as older cats don't always get along with new ones--no matter what the circumstances. Personally, I hope that both of my current cats lead extra-long and healthy lives, so I won't have to worry about such a situation! As I said, I love them like children (and, yes, I DO have a human family as well)!

When I posted my answer, I guess that I was just selfishly thinking of MY own loss. When my last cat died, it was an only cat, so she left no grieving cat behind. After reading the other answers to this Question, however, I now realize that if I lost one of the two cats that I now have (who are sisters), it might be in the best interest of the remaining cat to get her a little kitten to help her with her own grief.

I'd have to "play it by ear", though, as older cats don't always get along with new ones--no matter what the circumstances. Personally, I hope that both of my current cats lead extra-long and healthy lives, so I won't have to worry about such a situation! As I said, I love them like children (and, yes, I DO have a human family as well)!

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