Do dogs grieve over a lost loved one?

Of course! I think dog is one of the most loyal animals and friends to our human beings. They love people, So they grieve over loss of their friends. Do you think so?

I'm not sure if they grieve exactly but I'm sure they would miss the person that had passed away, so I suppose they may grieve. They feel emotions as they feel pain, show when they are happy and angry. I thin if they are attached to the person then they may feel loss and grieve.

Oh, I absolutely believe that dogs can grieve over those they love. I've seen dogs who moped for months and months because their owners had passed away. I think dogs are far more intuitive than we can ever give them credit for, and they do feel things like that very deeply. They don't know where their loved one is, feel abandoned/ whatever, and get depressed just like us humans do. My own dog has deep feelings (a German Shepherd.) When I went through my cancer surgery and chemo & radiation treatments, the dog knew I was really sick and wouldn't leave my side for a minute when I was home. She had to be within a hands reach. Before that she was a loving dog, but she'd be elsewhere in the house and not quite so lovey dovey. To this day if I'm gone from the house more than a couple of hours, when I get home she is so glad to see me she gets absolutely shaky with relief and whining and wont' leave my side for a moment until I lavish the hugs on her and talk soothingly. So I absolutely do believe their emotions are felt just like us people feel them.

chances are there for them to feel u must have seen dogs cry some times but dont no why doing so if known post here

Absolutely! Dogs do grieve, but I wonder if it wasn't something different... Normally if a dog is mourning the loss of a companion, they'll stop eating, playing etc. Since your dog ran away, I wonder if maybe he thought your brother just left and he went to find him...

I don't know if dogs know when a person passes away. However, I do know that my late father-in-law's dog was attached to him very much. She'd follow him everywhere if she could. She'd go crazy whenever he'd go somewhere without her. When he and my mother-in-law went on a trip she'd pace back and forth and look out the window constantly waiting for him to come back. She'd do the same when he'd just go outside. That is, until someone would let her out and she'd go looking for him. She'd find him every time too. LOL She never did any of this with anyone else, just my father-in-law. I swear, that dog was in love with him. LOL Happy mylotting!

I think that animals feel a lot more than we give them credit for. Just because they can't express those emotions the way we can doesn't mean they can't feel them. How else does my cat know when I'm feeling happy or sad, and curl up to me, or lick my hand when I need him to?

Dogs do grieve. My dog goes into a depression whenever guests leave our house to go back to their homes. We have family from out of state that will visit us for a couple of days once or twice a year and when they leave, my dog goes into a funk and gets all mopey. He misses them and it shows because he won't eat or drink his water and he just lays around all day. He can barely even get any motivation up to go outside a couple times a day. And, this will last for nearly a week before he finally just accepts that they won't be back for a while and he gets over it. So, yes...dogs do grieve like humans. They experience loss and sadness. They feel emotions like missing someone.