How having a dog or cat helps us with grief and loneliness
February 09, 2021 Former journalist Susan Bamber and her dog Sammy in Sai Kung, Having found that looking after a friend’s dog when he was away helped assuage her grief after the loss of her husband, the frend’s leaving Hong Kong for good triggered her to adopt Sammy from a refuge. Hong Kong. South China Morning Post When Susan Bamber’s husband, Jack Upson, fell ill in late 2010, she took time off from her work as a journalist to care for him. When he died in April 2011, just 14 months after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer, she was devastated and decided not to return to w...
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