re: Do you think dogs experience Grief when their owners die?

Absolutely. Our family dog favored my dad and when my dad died our dog was not the same dog. He mopped around and passed away within two years after my dad passed.

I am sure there are people in this thread whose dogs don't like when their owners leave. I have two dogs and they do very little when they are home alone. They don't eat much at all, they don't drink much.. When we leave for several days they pretty much eat and drink just enough.

We went somewhere in July and I hired my friend's son, who takes care of people's dogs when they go on vacation and he told me they would go out, do their business then run inside and just lay down like they are depressed..

Dogs can also sniff out infections. I had a cut on my leg and I was cleaning it and putting a band aid, etc but it was getting worse. It was a spider bite, but when my dog started coming up to me and smelling that area a lot that's when I decided to go to the doctor. It was infected and they actually had to cut it open and pack it... Dogs are smarter than most people give them credit for.

I'm shocked this is even a question of course they do.

Try to watch this movie without shedding a tear. The producers throw you a bone by casting toolbag Richard gere but the dog is still gonna make you misty.

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when my GSD died 2 years ago, my little weenie dog barked incessantly the day before- in hindsight it was obvious that she was trying to tell us something was wrong with him. He ended up having bloat and died from that.

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Its amazing what they are able to sense. I know this is different than the death of someone, but I know when it will rain an hour or more before we actually get rain. One of my dogs is sensitive to weather. Anytime its lightening and thundering she has to be near someone and she shakes. If it will rain... not a thunderstorm, but just a rain shower.. If she is outside running around, she will all of a sudden come inside and get attached and will stay that way until after it rains. Sometimes I question myself in picking up on it or I just convinced myself that she senses a rain storm that long before it actually happens, but she is consistent with it..

Good lord man, that story broke down to a tear.

Yes.

Oh yes they get depressed

Man I don't wanna think about this

I'd grieve too if the person who gave my free food and treats my entire just up and left. But at the end of the day they're just animals and they aren't capable of feeling the same types of emotions about you as you'd like them to.