Grieving Pet Death: Normative, Gender, and Attachment Issues

By T. A. Wrobel, A. Dye. 2003

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Development of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (2006, background): “For example, Wrobel and Dye (2003) found that grief tended to diminish over time, McCutcheon and Fleming (2001–2002) found no significant difference in bereavement depending on the time since loss, while Gosse and Barnes (1994) found that the more time passed, the greater bereavement tended to be.”
The Emotional Lives of Companion Animals: Attachment and Subjective Claims by Owners of Cats and Dogs (2016, background): “…emotional connections to their animals (Hall et al. 2004), often considering them part of the family and providing them with levels of affection, comfort, and support similar to that of another human fam- ily member (Wrobel and Dye 2003; Donohue 2005; Zilcha-Mano, Mikulincer and Shaver 2011).”
An attachment perspective on human–pet relationships: Conceptualization and assessment of pet attachment orientations (2011, background): “Losing a pet is distressing and can cause a person to enter a period of grief and mourning (e.g., Hunt, Al-Awadi, & Johnson, 2008; Lagoni, Butler, & Hetts, 1994; Wrobel & Dye, 2003).”