Knocking on heaven's door

During my coffee break I leafed trough the Veterinary Magazines and noticed something interesting. There was an article about a survey done by the Direct Line Pet Insurance. According to the findings of the survey, British businesses are loosing £8.ma a year as staff "pull sickies" to get over the death of their pets. In other words, the bereaved pet owners have difficulties in concentrating in their works as they are too upset. I can truly understand that. When our family pet, a ferret, died accidentally, my whole family was grief stricken. He was a real character and a member of our family. I did go to work, but admittedly my concentration wasn't 100% and I took every possible opportunity to send text messages to various family members for support. I don't think it matters if the pet is big or small- people can get very attached to any sorts of animals. I meet constantly with pet owners calling themselves as pets' parents, like "mom of Tilly" (the rabbit). I am pretty sure that when Tilly passes away, her human "mom" will be very upset indeed. It is a great pity that pet owners have to resort to "pulling a sickie" if they can't get time off for the real reason.