Me with my first dog, little dog with big personality, who passed away at 14 years of age. This is a question I hear often in the therapy room. When someone loses a pet, and their world comes crumbling down, sometimes worse than they had imagined, they start to wonder - is this normal? Am I overdoing it? To which, my short answer to them is always - no. There is no "right way" to grieve. In this post, I want to explain why losing an animal companion can hit so hard, what that