I'm hoping some of you might have advice on dealing with the loss of a pet. My 5-year old torti Sofa-Cat (Sofia the pumpkin eating cat) suddenly passed away on Christmas day. She wasn't sick and it turned out to be a heart attack due to an underlying, undetectable, untreatable heart condition, which I hear is common in healthy cats that die suddenly.
I saw her die -- one minute perfectly fine, the next writhing and howling, and then dead in seconds -- which was traumatizing. We took her to the emergency vet hospital and requested a necropsy because we didn't know how she could just die like that. BF and I both miss her dearly and find some consolation that she had five healthy, happy, loving years with us. She also seemed to sense a lupus flare before I had one and when I was sick she would curl up next to me and watch over me.
I'm not ready for another pet, but I have to admit I'm surprised at how sad her death has made me. She was really our first companion pet and I did spend a lot of time with her. Not sure what I'm looking for, but I thought I should just share her story. Fortunately, it hasn't seemed to affected my IBS, although I did have a horrible panic attack after we returned from the vet's and then a week later when we collected her ashes. 
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