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Loving Our Pets, and More

By Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS

There’s nothing so heart-wrenching as losing a beloved pet.

Our Luna’s passing on Monday has been so painful, yet also so enriching thanks to the amazing support and feedback from so many of you.

I’m aware now of what an important topic this is: Our animals, their meaning, and our love for them.

So, in honor of Luna and every other wonderful pet, I’m going to devote the next several Mondays’ posts to celebrating animals and their places in our lives and hearts.

I’ll be including excerpts from the wonderful comments and stories you have sent. Your words are so beautiful and inspiring. They’ve helped me and my family so much this week, and I am sure they will help others.

So please do join me here on Mondays (Luna’s Day), starting tomorrow.

Meanwhile, here’s my original post about Luna, and the New York Times reply post by Tara Parker-Pope.

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And after a week of crying, I’m trying now to regain some normalcy, so I’m revisiting my usual blog topics.

Education:

Five Tips for Helping Your Child (or Yourself!) Learn Math

And Relationships:

What If You are From Neptune and Your Ex is from Pluto?

Thank you again, so much, for all the support and kind words this week!

-Leigh


getting back in touch with life, photo of a tulip

Good Music for a Good Cause: UFO’s album, Unity Creates Strength, benefits Chile and Haiti.


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    Last reviewed: 25 Apr 2010

APA Reference
Cousins, L. (2010). Loving Our Pets, and More. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 13, 2012, from http://blogs.psychcentral.com/always-learning/2010/04/loving-our-pets-and-more/

 

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