I wonder if anyone else here has lost a precious pet, and has been pushed or hurried through the grieving process by a caseworker or other mental health professional? This happened in 1999 when I had to put my first cat, Sylvester, down....I was allowed to grieve for only three weeks..then my staff pressured me to start 'getting over it'...why would they be so callous as to do this? So that someone at the State would not be on their backs about 'why isn't she improving?' or 'This is only a pet, it's not normal she grieve any longer' or is this just that staffers are human and they did not know, themselves, how to deal with grief/loss? Are they not taught that pet grieving is just as real and intense as grieving for a human friend or loved one?