Mourning of a dog

[lilelvis2000]

One of the work collegues here took an unbeleivable three days of sympathy leave. Because her dog which had a bad heart and had been ill for several months and which she knew would die soon, died on tuesday night. Talk about taking the (dog) biscuit.

I dunno, maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but some people don't seem to have the right priorities.

[Sockpuppet]

Permie or contractor.

Is permie then abuse the system I say.

[lilelvis2000]

Oh Permie for sure. Obviously a soft manager and a heavily sobbing employee - yeah take some time off for your lousy dog.


Sorry but when it comes to pets - grieving over an animal which lives 12 years - is a bit silly.

[chasingtheaurora]

My dog died last year and I was in bits for whole hours about it.

[sunnysan]

Dogs

As a dog owner I can see hopw some people get extremely attched to their animals and the natural result of that is to grieve when it dies.

I think when mine pops his designer pet mittens I will be sad, but taking off work is a bit extreme

[chef]

don't know any recipes for dog... I'll investigate though

<chef in "can't keep an IKEA bamboo stick alive never mind pet's" mode>

[Churchill]

don't know any recipes for dog... I'll investigate though

<chef in "can't keep an IKEA bamboo stick alive never mind pet's" mode>

Try the Korean Cookbook.

[lilelvis2000]

Try the Korean Cookbook.

LOL

[xoggoth]

I used to get really upset when I had to take one of my vans to the scrapyard. Then I adopted a Buddhist philosophy, only the shell of my beloved van had been crushed, its spirit had been reincarnated in my new (AKA cheap second hand) van. I found this a great comfort and it eased my sense of betrayal.

[lilelvis2000]

As a dog owner I can see hopw some people get extremely attched to their animals and the natural result of that is to grieve when it dies.

I think when mine pops his designer pet mittens I will be sad, but taking off work is a bit extreme

In this case, all she did was talk about her dog. She spent hundred of pounds a month on medication to keep it alive. Medication which caused the dog to loose its appetite - effectively keeping the dog alive so it could starve to death. Just silly.

Only dog owner I knew was one at Uni, a Phd. Student. He came in one day a bit sad. Explained his dog died, how he'd built a box for it and buried it in the back at its favorite spot. To me that is the "correct" way to handle things.

I'm here hopeing my cat dies soon so I can stop feeding it. Mind you, she is cute, but I doubt I'd miss her. I'd just get another one.