{"id":26477,"date":"2022-06-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26477"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:00:00","slug":"the-pet-loss-guide-thursday-16th-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/06\/16\/the-pet-loss-guide-thursday-16th-june-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pet Loss Guide &#8211; Thursday 16th June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Pet Loss Guide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to tell you about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Pet-Loss-Guide\/dp\/1409195929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pet Loss Guide by Millie Jacobs<\/a>. It&#8217;s a lovely new book that comes out today. Our lives are much shorter than yours so it is very likely at some point that you humans will go through losing a pet. It is, of course, very hard when you do. It can take a long time to grieve for another living being that you\u2019ve been close to. We go through it as well, so we share those feelings. Although we all grieve differently in our own ways we do all grieve. Many of us don\u2019t know how to handle the feelings or what we should do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0888-scaled-e1655213365550.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0888-scaled-e1655213365550-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26478\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supporting someone at a time of loss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although primarily aimed at those who are themselves going through the loss, this lovely book also contains advice for the people trying to support them. There is a thirty-one day plan to help the bereaved human through their immediate time of loss, but there is far more than that here. The book contains heart-warming and heart-rending stories of others who have been through losing a pet as well as some very practical tips and advice. It also has space to write down how you are feeling each day, which can in itself help. If you are a pet reading this then don\u2019t forget you can work with your human to share how you feel too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don\u2019t be afraid to grieve<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Grieving is important and you need to give yourself time and space to work your way through the process. Remember you are vulnerable and don\u2019t make any rash decisions to take in every homeless stray you hear about just to fill the void. When it comes to adding new members to your family, research them thoroughly and choose carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not just pets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the helpful advice in this book, it is probably just as valuable to someone who has lost another human as much as it is a pet. The grieving process is very similar and has the same stages and difficulties. What is different is that those around you expect you to grieve for a human, but one of the important points this book makes is that you can be left to feel guilty grieving for a beloved pet, because non-pet people simply don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Pet-Loss-Guide\/dp\/1409195929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pet Loss Guide by Millie Jacobs<\/a> is published by Orion and is available on Amazon or through any bookshop. The hardback is priced at \u00a314.99. There\u2019s a Kindle version for \u00a39.99 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wilma wants to tell you about The Pet Loss Guide, a new book which comes out today and which we think is very useful.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-26477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-reviews","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}