Anytime we connect with a dog and fall in love with it, the loss of that baby, however short or long our association, is always so painful and hard to recover from. Time really helps as does keeping as busy as you can, never stopping from morning 'til night until you find you are feeling less deep feelings of grief and sadness. Thankfully you have other babies to keep you busy loving them and working and playing, doing activities with them to fill their days with purpose and joy and, hopefully, somewhere in there, you will find some yourself. Hang in there, the awful pain does get better.
Welcome back and thank you for working with rescue dogs. It is a hard, thoroughly heart-warming, often heart-breaking job and not for the fainthearted.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |