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Do you think dogs experience Grief when their owners die?
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:18 pm
I’ve read where they think the owner has abandoned them , my dog is three and my health hasn’t been great lately. I’m also late 50’s I was just wondering if any of you have experienced this with family members and their dogs?
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Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:19 pm to BowDownToLSU
100%
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:19 pm to BowDownToLSU
Yes plenty of stories about them visiting graves or laying on them. They know.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:19 pm to BowDownToLSU
Yes. They grieve when their owners go to work for the day.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:20 pm to BowDownToLSU
Dogs can absolutely get depression from losing a loved one. I have seen them get sad for a week or so after having to put another dog down in the family.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:22 pm to BowDownToLSU
Hachiko
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Ueno would commute daily to work, and Hachiko would leave the house to greet him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued the daily routine until May 21, 1925, when Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while he was giving a lecture to his class, and he died without ever returning to the train station at which Hachiko waited.
Each day, for the next 9 years, 9 months and 15 days, Hachiko awaited Ueno's return, appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.
A picture of their graves side by side
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:23 pm to BowDownToLSU
100%
When my MIL passed, her little dog came to live with us. That dog grieved horribly and wouldn't eat for days. My wife finally laid her mother's bathrobe in the corner of a bedroom, the dog slept on it and laid on it many weeks after her death. It took a while for the dog to adjust, but he grieved for a long while.
When my MIL passed, her little dog came to live with us. That dog grieved horribly and wouldn't eat for days. My wife finally laid her mother's bathrobe in the corner of a bedroom, the dog slept on it and laid on it many weeks after her death. It took a while for the dog to adjust, but he grieved for a long while.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:23 pm to BowDownToLSU
Grief or confusion. Not sure which. I think we want it to be grief and assign that emotion. The dog may very well be thinking "Crap! Who is going to feed me now?"
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:23 pm to BowDownToLSU
Absolutely. The bond between a human and dog can be incredible.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:24 pm to BowDownToLSU
That baw who wanted to have his dog killed after his own death knew what he was doing
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:25 pm to BowDownToLSU
No doubt. I lost the coolest chick of all time a few years ago and our golden was her bestie. He was visibly depressed for months after her passing.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:26 pm to BowDownToLSU
I would be shocked if they didn’t.
Dogs are damn near the perfect animal.
Dogs are damn near the perfect animal.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:26 pm to BowDownToLSU
Damn. Now I'm sad. I friggin love dogs
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:27 pm to BowDownToLSU
I think dogs have feelings but most of those are assigned to its own needs and desires.
Humans give way to much credit to dogs personalities and hearts for their own satisfaction.
Humans give way to much credit to dogs personalities and hearts for their own satisfaction.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:30 pm to HighRoller
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Yes plenty of stories about them visiting graves or laying on them. They know.
Yep. There was a dog in the town I was born in who refused to leave the grave of the child who had died and they erected a statue of them in the graveyard.
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:31 pm to BowDownToLSU
quote:
Do you think dogs experience Grief when their owners die?
It's not even a question.. Yes. I've seen it
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:31 pm to SlowFlowPro
Hachiko 
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:31 pm to BowDownToLSU
I can tell you that your pet will 100% be affected. My wife passed away on May 20 and he still doesn’t eat very well. I brought him to the vet and the vet told me he will eat when he gets hungry. Instead of eating once in the morning and once at night he eats once a day and only about half of what he would eat before she passed away. I try to play with him as much as I can to try and keep his mind off of her. I put some pictures of her on my TV screen saver and had to take them off because it was upsetting him
Posted on 8/22/24 at 12:33 pm to BowDownToLSU
Dogs grieve their loss of companionship.
Thankfully, most dogs, if not all, can attach themselves unwaveringly to a new owner.
Trust me, we've taken in older dogs when the owner died and the family didn't want the dog.
They came into our home and became friends with us.
Most of the time with no real sense of sadness in missing their original owners.
Thankfully, most dogs, if not all, can attach themselves unwaveringly to a new owner.
Trust me, we've taken in older dogs when the owner died and the family didn't want the dog.
They came into our home and became friends with us.
Most of the time with no real sense of sadness in missing their original owners.
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