Includes index

Human-pet bond -- Responsibility -- The grieving process -- Shock -- Denial and disbelief -- Anger, alienation and distancing -- Guilt -- Depression -- Resolution (closure) -- Other kinds of loss -- Another pet? -- Children and the death of a pet -- Euthanasia -- Final arrangements (aftercare) -- Supportive counseling -- Religion and the death of pets -- Some practical suggestions in review -- Telephone hotlines -- Counselors-- Aftercare resources -- Pet loss support groups

This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a twenty-first century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well

Includes Aftercare resources and a list of pet loss support groups: pages 267-296