What are the best ways of coping with a pet loss?
Try to make a little memorial for it. Find a box and put photos, a collar, favorite toy etc and keep it in your room. Find a nice little tombstone for it, or plant flowers over its grave. Try to be happy and remember the good times you had with it. Life goes on. And NEVER worry about the ‘what-ifs’. I’ve had so many hamsters, rats, guinea pigs, etc and after they’d die I’d always blame myself, e.g. ‘If she had a bigger cage she’d still be alive. If I had spent more time with her she wouldn’t have died lonely’. etc. The death is NOT your fault, even if sometimes I find it hard to accept when a pet dies.
