When my tamagotchi continously died I cried for hours.

Y'all are making me tear up I'm so sorry for your losses

My dog is 12 and we've had him for 10 years and every time I remember that he's getting up there in age and one day I'm going to have to let him go, it makes me want to cry. I love him so much and can't imagine him just not being here anymore.

I would probably go get a new dog tbh which makes me feel kind of guilty but I feel like it would ease some of the pain.

That's honestly the first suggestion people gave to me, not even 12 hours after I buried my dog. I was fuming.

I'd rather feel the loss, walk past the toy section and remember her and be sad that I can no longer spoil her, hug her and take her for hour-long walks in the woods than just 'get another dog' as that isn't suggested to anyone when a family member dies.

So few understood my pain. It's "just a dog", you'll "be alright", you can "get another one" and "love it just as much".

Um, no bitch, the dog that was my friend, companion, replacement for my own child and pet is no longer here and there's absolutely no way at this moment in time that I will love anyone or anything as much as I loved her.

I had to respectfully tell people to be quiet because their 'comforting' words were actually insulting.

This makes me so sad, just another example of how insensitive most people are these days. And it proves again that animals >>>> humans

No but I have three schnauzers and one of them turned 5 and makes me sad thinking he's getting old for dog age. He's like halfway there the other one is four and the little one Is one. It sucks that they usually only live 10-12 years and uglee ass/evil animals like alliagtors live for a long ass time.

there was a family dog before I was born named diesel and the vets killed him by giving him too much oxygen

then we had toto, another dog, who ran away and never came back

then we had apple, ANOTHER dog, who passed away because she had a heart murmur. she died in the early morning. it really hurt me and shocked me… and there was nothing we could have done anyway.

Ive lost every pet Ive ever had The fish died because I was dumb and left them under my lights and the other time I had JUST brought them from the store and tried to put them in a fish tank and didnt know you werent supposed to pour water directly on them and my birds all like jumped from the top of their cage and broke their leg then died. My mom accidentally killed our first one by leaving it in the house during summer. She also hates pets so she just flushed our fish down the toilet and threw our dead birds in the trash I didnt even get to properly bury them but sorry for your loss.