Pure unconditional love. In both directions.
The thing about dogs is that unlike people they love you unconditionally and purely, and forever. They’re always happy to see you and they never give you an attitude or anything like that. If you think about it, you could leave the house for maybe five or ten minutes, come back, and your dog will be super happy to see you as if they haven’t seen you for hours. Humans don’t do that. Only dogs. If you’re a person like me who has a lot of emotional walls up, the kind of love you can have for a dog is something you don’t often share with humans. Losing that hurts on a deep level, and it sticks with you long after they’re gone. I think it comes down to the purity of that love going in both directions. I’ve read that losing a dog hits almost like losing a family member, whereas losing other people hurts, but in a different way. Both are real. Both matter.
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