Service Animal Owners

Service animals are instrumental in helping in the safety & health of their human companions and assisting them in carrying out their activities of daily living. These animals include diabetes service dogs (that can detect when blood sugar is out of range), service dogs for the hearing impaired (that can alert their human companion when someone is at the door or if an alarm goes off), seizure alert service dogs., seeing eye dogs ( that guide the visually impaired through their daily activities), psychiatric service dogs (that nudge human companions to take their medications or will interrupt a psychiatric episode & reorient their human companion) and sensory signal dogs ( that disrupt repetitive behaviors in autistic children). The death of a service animal causes a grief that’s two-fold because the bereaved has lost both a life enhancer and a companion.
Please share your experience with the loss of your service animal.