Is it really possible for one to cry over his pets?

I’ve heard and read of accounts of people who cried over lost cats or pet dogs that died. And I could not really emphatize. Precisely because I did not have pets of my own then and didn’t know any better. I even found those kind of people who grieve over lost or dead pets,  to be on the OA side. But when I started having pets, I started thinking if I too would cry over a lost or dead cat or dog. Now I know for sure that I would.

Last night, one of Jean Grey’s three kittens died, dying as it were, after the death of his other sibling just a few days ago, and after the loss of Merrill and deaths of Chloe and Pffeiffer in recent days and weeks. Jean’s kittens have remained unnamed since we could not yet distinguish one from another. But they are/were all white male kittens.

I was sad when Merrill did not show up one morning to ask to be let in and fed. I was sad when I heard Chloe died. I was sad when Dennis found out one morning that Pffeiffer died while trying to give birth to her fourth set of kittens. I nearly cried when the first of the little white kittens died.

I finally gave in last night and fully and absolutely cried when I saw the second one dead. I was actually bawling; I must have also been crying as well for all the other pets that got lost and died.  

It must be true what people have been saying – they who give you the most joy are the same ones to give you as much sorrow.