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Originally Posted by Squirt's Mommy  How long did your Yorkie do this? We lost Crush, our English bulldog, yesterday. We have caught our Yorkie, Squirt, howling when we left the house for 15 minutes last night ( we have a terrific iPhone app called Dog Monitor that allows us to video in and hear/see them and also talk to them) - he never ever does this. He is 10. We had him before the bully, for four years prior... They didn't really play a whole lot together but they were companions to one another during the weekdays. He has been pretty clingy (more than normal) to me too. |
This thread is 3 years old, but I will tell you my experience. I had 2 girls, one 13 y/o one 7 y/o. They were very,very close. Every night when I came home from work, the older one was always very anxious to eat. One night I come home, feed them, the older one is not interested, hummmmm. In the morning I feed them, she does not eat. I go to work, come home to find she had not eaten, I offer her a fresh bowl of food, she does not eat. So it's off to the vet, is this girl refused FOOD there had to be something wrong with her. I put on her harness pick her up and the 7 y/o lets out a death howl, none of my yorkies ever HOWLED, when the young one did this I knew my older one had to be very sick. She was at the vet 5 days, kidney failure, I had to put her down. My young grieved for 7 months, poor eating, would not play. I could not get her a buddy, my work kept me away for 16 hours a day. I could not get a puppy or another dog under these conditions. Seven months later she started to get back to her little old self and accepted that she would be an only child. She left me at 17 y/o.
Another experience, I had a pack of 3, the oldest passed away, 6 months months later the 2nd oldest went to rainbow bridge, my youngest was then 6 y/o. She grieved the loss of her 2 sisters. She would not play, picked at her food, no amount of extra attention could bring her back to her little clown self. I gave her 6 months to adjust to being alone, 7 months and she was still not the same. My work hours were normal at that time, so off to get her a buddy, when I bought home this new baby girl, it was love at first sight. She bonded with the baby with-in a few weeks and they became in-separable.
So my experience in my dogs grieving the loss of their BFF was 7 months. Hopefully although this is an OLD thread others will come along and give their experiences.