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When awareness of pet mortality creates anticipatory grief

My dog is getting old and I find myself researching his breed lifespan obsessively and calculating how many years we might have left.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Knowledge of inevitable loss turns present love into a countdown that steals joy from remaining time.

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“Where Are You with Companion animals?”

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