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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you all for your insight and for sharing your own experiences.

As for why it was traumatic...We left our dog with a new dog sitter when we went on vacation on the west coast in July.  I did what I could to vet them sitters (a really nice young couple with two dogs and great reviews on Rover), including taking my dog to their house to meet them.  I told them that his breed is sensitive to heat, but they took him for a 45 minute long walk on a hot day not realizing how sensitive he was.  He had a heat stroke and died the next day after 24 hours of being rushed around to three different emergency vet clinics.  It was traumatic because I feel so much guilt about leaving him with new people.    Maybe I wasn't clear enough with them about his sensitivity to heat.  Maybe I should have left him at the vet kennel.  Maybe we shouldn't have gone on vacation at all.  I just feel so much guilt about his life being cut short, as he was only six years old.  (I really don't blame them, because they did what they could to try to save him and were absolutely devastated when he passed.)

So I guess some of my grief is really complicated by guilt of what we could have done to avoid this.  I really would like to open up my heart to a new pet in the next year or so, but right now it just hurts to bad to take that step.

Thank you all again for your thoughts and compassion.[/quote]

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