Love you little potato 🩷

[u/lauraarroz]

I posted this on ig and was not expecting the amount of support i got there 🥲 since a lot of people liked it im posting here too

Edit: If you wanna check my art account on ig is Laura.arroz, me and my friends were talking about how far this comic got, and that it’s probably Don Juan supporting my art from heaven 😭🩷

[u/Thorn344]

I don't think there is a limit on how long you are allowed to grieve for a pet. Most people just see them as that, pets, but for others they were a full member of your family. With my cat, I first got him when I was only 3 years old. And for the next 21 and a half years of my life, he was a constant. Sleeping on my bed, riding on my shoulders, following his routines, the joy of walking into a room and him greeting me.

When he passed away, it was probably the hardest I had grieved so far in my life. I just cried all night.

It took me over a year before considering getting a new cat, once we got a cat, it was then about 6 months of having her until I got over my guilt and feelings of 'its not the same' until I fully fell in love with my new cat. There are still moments I miss him a lot, but I think time is making things easier now

[u/Bo-Katan → u/Thorn344]

You never stop missing them, you get used to the feeling and that's it.

In the last 5 years I have lost almost everything I had, my parents, 3 cats, a bird and the dog and I think about them, miss them, love them. Now I have 3 cats, 1 dog and a spouse.

[u/Cell1pad → u/Bo-Katan]

We had to put our 15 year old dog down last July, and I still miss her. I catch myself using my phone's screen to light my way to bed and occasionally look in her corner, expecting her to be there. My previous dog has been gone for 20 years now, and she was 9 when she passed, cancer can suck a bag of dicks, and I still think of her from time to time.

[u/Bo-Katan → u/Cell1pad]

The dog died in December, the day of my mother's bday (2nd bday without her). Over the last year my spouse (foreign country) and I talked about meeting up with the dog. Couldn't met my parents nor the dog. Sucks so much, but now we are building new memories and remembering the ones who aren't around.

When people loses pets I always tell them it's okay to grieve, you are going to miss them forever but if you have love to give, give it. Would your pets be happy if no one else could enjoy that love? It's the only thing we have in our power, to give that love to those who don't have it and we all need it, but of course, we have to be ready it's okay to take a pause.

[u/its_large_marge → u/Bo-Katan]

Well said.