How to Deal With a Dog's Death

"This hurts me more than most of the other deaths I've experienced in my life," he says. "If you get a puppy right away, that now your focus is just on the puppy and you are now you're all about this new life instead of mourning the old life." If it's really painful and miserable and you want it just to end, get a new puppy right away,. Maybe a kitten would work as well; definitely not a turtle.