The Loss of a Pet

A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies: 4th edition

By: Wallace Sife PhD

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a 21st-century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well.  

This book will help you in your healing from that special loss. It includes topics such as:  

• Validating this special kind of grief  
• The grieving process, including typical stages of bereavement and techniques for coping  
• Children and the death of a pet  
• Euthanasia, including important considerations 
• And more

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2014 Wallace Sife, PhD (P)2019 Tantor

Wonderful

Excellent. Just what I needed for myself and my family who is about to euthanize my grand dog who is 17 years old. We love dogs and this is breaking our hearts.

Finally something that actually helps.

I've read many books have gone to grief groups I've done so many things to try to help myself deal with the loss of my texts nothing helped. this book actually helps you learn how to deal with all of the emotions and Trauma and guilt everything that you go through with the loss of your beloved pet. you can tell this man is writing from experience, from his heart and from his own pain at losing his own pet. if you're grieving the loss of a pet and you don't know what to do with yourself or your emotions highly recommend you listen to this book or read this book very well done. Thank you for the author it's the first time anything is actually helped me deal with it washing my princess my best friend my princess my baby angel so hard thank you.

An Insult to Pet lovers & Owners

I write on the topic of grief with loss of a pet. It is something that is overwhelming, and can be devastating to many people. So I was really excited when I saw this book. I thought that I would find new nuances to write about and tips to help my clients process the grief that they feel when they lose a pet.

Instead, I was confronted with multiple instances of the author saying that "Pets are for people who are introverts and can't make human friends". The first time he said it, I thought well, that is something that happens to a small part of the pet owner population, they are introverts. But then on and on, multiple times, the author drives the stake into the heart of the pet owner saying that they are people who cannot cope with having relationships with humans. It is disgusting and simply not true. Pet owners are also people who are extroverts, love life and humanity- their pets are part of that love.

When you are looking down on someone, you are judging them, not helping them. This book was so unpalatable in the way it portrays pet owners I could not finish it. In my mind it is abusive and unreasonable. Written by someone who has never actually owned or loved a cat or dog. DO NOT BUY IT if you are a pet lover unless you feel like being treated like an inferior human being, Honestly, I can count the books I couldn't finish in the last 20 years on one hand, and this book is one of them. Make it a hard pass.