I'm grateful to have found this website. My husband and I lost one of our little dogs on Wednesday, October 10th. She was a beautiful and gentle little grey and white Shih Tzu called Peaches. Although she was 14 years old, she had recently had a check-up and had no major health problems. She seemed to be in very good health for her age. Unfortunately, she had massive heart failure on Wednesday night - very unexpectedly. My husband and I are devastated. I feel worse than I did when my beloved grandparents died. It has been 4 days and I feel like I don't care about anything anymore. I'm 4 months pregnant and I suddenly don't care about the pregnancy or my job or anything. I think I may need to get professional counseling, because I'm having a hard time functioning. We rescued little Peaches from a shelter 2 years ago, so we only had her in our lives for 2 years. But she was such a sweet, happy little dog. She was blind from cataracts, and she needed a lot of care, but I think that just made us closer to her. We still have another little Shih Tzu, Sasha, who is 6 going on 7. I am trying to cuddle with Sasha, but I feel very numb. I keep going on the Internet, trying to find out whether dogs are in Heaven or in some kind of afterlife. We actually spoke to an animal communicator a couple of nights ago, who said Peaches was okay and feels better now than she did when she was on earth (she wasn't sick exactly but she had a lot of minor ailments, like allergies and skin problems - and of course she was blind too). I wish I had more faith that I will see her again. Corinna