Flickr photo by Anders.BachmannThis is been a year of change for a lot of people in my midst who share life with animal companions. For most of them, they knew that the inevitable was coming: an aged pet gracefully navigating their twilight time with the accompanying bumps along the way. For others, death came unexpectedly or early. None of us who share their life with a pet is immune to seeing them through their final transition. As one client remarked a few days ago when I shared that Bruiser, our 13 year-old Labrador was recently diagnosed with metastatic cancer, "...it never seems right that our dearest loved ones live for so short of time,"; the fact that we all grieve the loss of our animal companions is evident. But there's more to the equation.Continue reading Experts say that pets grieve after the death of another family pet, and helping them through the transition proves healing for everyone ...