‘Having Ivy taught me that the heart makes space for new love to enter while still being able to honor what has been lost.’: Grieving pawrent opens her heart to a new puppy who helps her work through losing her ‘soul dog’ building a new, hard-won bond

Losing anyone who is close to you is terribly difficult. Our lives, whether they are a simulation or not, are built up of the relationships and those that are closest to us are the toughest to lose. Which makes it come as little surprise that when this woman lost her doggo, both her and her other doggo were at a loss for what to do. After all, they had lost one of their pack, and what are you meant to do when your pack of three becomes a pack of two? Is it even a pack anymore?

Well, the doggo distribution system said there was no way that this pack would be left lacking in numbers and jumped right in to rectify the problem. Not only delivering a darling doggo to delight the downtrodden pair, but at that a doggo with striking resemblances to the doggo that had been lost from the pack. A truly heartwarming story of pupper pack success.

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