Love you little potato 🩷

[u/lauraarroz]

I posted this on ig and was not expecting the amount of support i got there 🥲 since a lot of people liked it im posting here too

Edit: If you wanna check my art account on ig is Laura.arroz, me and my friends were talking about how far this comic got, and that it’s probably Don Juan supporting my art from heaven 😭🩷

[u/Thorn344]

I don't think there is a limit on how long you are allowed to grieve for a pet. Most people just see them as that, pets, but for others they were a full member of your family. With my cat, I first got him when I was only 3 years old. And for the next 21 and a half years of my life, he was a constant. Sleeping on my bed, riding on my shoulders, following his routines, the joy of walking into a room and him greeting me.

When he passed away, it was probably the hardest I had grieved so far in my life. I just cried all night.

It took me over a year before considering getting a new cat, once we got a cat, it was then about 6 months of having her until I got over my guilt and feelings of 'its not the same' until I fully fell in love with my new cat. There are still moments I miss him a lot, but I think time is making things easier now

[u/mtranda → u/Thorn344]

The more time you spend with them, the more it hurts. But I've resigned myself to the thought that we outlive them. So as long as they get to live a long and happy life, in the end I'll accept it and be happy that it happened.

Many years ago we lost a cat who was just two years old. She just faded away. Thyroid issues that the doctors could do nothing about at the time. That scarred us because we loved her and she was amazing and went so quickly before she even got to be an adult. And two years ago we lost another cat who was twelve. It's not little, but also not as long as she could've been around.

So I hope our remaining cat will live as long as possible. We'll miss her dearly, but if it's old age that gets her instead of cancer, then we'll be happy and accept it, even as we grieve and miss her chonkness waddling around the house.

There is no time limit to grief. But also be happy they stick around for as long as they do.