Description
Book SynopsisThis is a thinking person's guide, and as such it supplies a theoretical framework for understanding attachment and loss as well as actual advice on everyday care, costs, and regulations.
Trade ReviewI wish people would read this book before they get an animal companion, because it helps put the relationship on the right track from the start. It is especially instructive for parents, therapists, and veterinarians as an invaluable guide for all who will eventually grieve the loss of their pets. The more we grieve, the more we have loved. This book enables us to embrace our grief. -- Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVetMed, The Humane Society of the United States
This book welcomes us, thoughtfully and kindly, into the world of people-pet relationships and makes us feel comfortably at home in it. In just the same way it shows us how to introduce a pet into the family and share a comfortable togetherness in which we and the pet can feel good. There is ample portrayal of the deep, rich satisfactions of these relationships and of all that they mean at different periods in our lives, and there is equal emphasis on the knowledge and responsibility necessary for consistent care and wise decision-making. The pains and stresses of aging, illness, and death—ours and the pet's—are also explored in a calm and helpful way. Loving and Losing a Pet is a must, not only for pet owners (prospective, new, and experienced) but for all professionals concerned with the well-being of people and animals. -- Erna Furman, president, Association for Child Psychoanalysis, author of A Child's Parent Dies
