Pet Grief: Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not real

You know it’s coming:

This illustration of a herd of corgis racing into heaven as Queen Elizabeth waited to greet them recently brought me to tears. I still miss my corgi Clementine after losing her 5 months ago.

Yet, when you adopt a dog or cat, you know you will likely outlive them. It’s part of animal ownership that someday we’ll have to make that awful decision to let them go when their health fails. By the way, I hate that phrase “put down,” as in “We had to put down our shih tzu....