In March of 2017, my family and I adopted a dog from a rescue shelter. When I saw him at the shelter, I instantly fell in love with him and knew I wanted to take him home. When we got him, he had cataracts in his eyes and was blind. We got him surgery, and they were able to restore the vision in one of his eyes. After he was able to see, his whole personality changed and he became the most fun-loving and energetic dog I've ever met. He truly brought so much joy into all of our lives and was such a loyal companion for the time we had him.
Unfortunately, while we were on vacation he unexpectedly passed away. He seemed completely normal when we left Saturday evening. However, our family friend who was taking care of him and our other dogs informed us that he wasn't eating much and had thrown up water on Sunday. He normally acts sad and stressed and displays similar behavior to this for a couple days after we leave for vacation, so we didn't think too much of it at first. I had been working at home because of COVID-19, so we initially thought that it might be a little worse since he was used to being with me throughout a lot of the day. We decided to keep an eye on him with our surveillance camera in the house, and we noticed he appeared to be running around and jumping like normal. Monday he acted about the same, and we decided that if he wasn't better by Tuesday morning we would have our friend take him to the vet sometime during the day and head home early from vacation to check on him. Sadly, we received a call early Tuesday morning that he had passed away. He was only 5-6 years old and was perfectly healthy before then. The vet couldn't tell us how he died, so we will never know what happened to the poor guy. Not only do we all feel devastated that our beloved dog unexpectedly died, but we all blame ourselves for not getting him help sooner. We also feel distraught that he probably thought we had abandoned him in his final days and we weren't there for him. Do you have any tips for overcoming these feelings of grief and guilt?
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