Bereavement among Companion Animal Primary Caregivers in Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Animals are family to the pet lovers, and the demise of the fellow animals highly caused bereavement among primary pet caregiver. To investigate the human-animal bond 180 participants (male=96, female=84) were recruited form the pet clinics at Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and Islamabad on purposive and convenient sampling techniques. The study was conducting during the month of June 2020 to July 2021. The results found that younger age and lack of family support are at higher risk for pet loss bereavement
than older and married. It is concluded that being its human or animal, demise of loved one makes significant difference in life of people and extremely difficult and challenging at the time of bereavement. Therefore, bereavement should be dealt with social and moral support.