Pet Grief

Here's an example of ambivalent (almost angry) grief over the loss of a pet. The writer makes some perceptive observations about the difference between the nature of a pet loss as opposed to a close human loss. As Angier puts it:

"We expect the bonds between children and parents, or between lovers or close friends, to be fierce and complex, and that makes them easy to understand. We expect the bonds between people and their pets to be simple and innocent, an antidote to human judgment and the fog of human speech, and that can make the bond paradoxically harder to track or explain."

New York Times: The Ambivalent Bond With a Ball of Fur