09-23-2016, 03:12 AM
I can say right now that I know they do. Misty grieved to a certain extent when our very good friend Peter passed away in 2011, whom she was very fond of. When I went to clean out his flat, she was very strange and subdued. She knew he had gone and wasn't coming back.
She was fine so long as I distracted her and never mentioned his name to her. I kept the cap he always wore, and one day when I was cleaning, it fell to the floor and Misty sniffed at it. From being quite light-hearted, she suddenly seemed sad.
Our dog friend, Jet mourned Misty very deeply indeed. I went to see him every day to support him and bring him some normality, and never grieved in his presence for his sake. But it took him 3-4 weeks to recover even slightly. When he recovered he came through the fields to visit me. He lay in his usual place on the door-mat. But when I opened the door, and he caught Misty's scent from the mat inside (she used to like to lie there) -he looked very upset, and ran away home.
And he was never the same again after that.
She was fine so long as I distracted her and never mentioned his name to her. I kept the cap he always wore, and one day when I was cleaning, it fell to the floor and Misty sniffed at it. From being quite light-hearted, she suddenly seemed sad.
Our dog friend, Jet mourned Misty very deeply indeed. I went to see him every day to support him and bring him some normality, and never grieved in his presence for his sake. But it took him 3-4 weeks to recover even slightly. When he recovered he came through the fields to visit me. He lay in his usual place on the door-mat. But when I opened the door, and he caught Misty's scent from the mat inside (she used to like to lie there) -he looked very upset, and ran away home.
And he was never the same again after that.
