It’s a beautiful story that shows how real the love between animals can be, and how dogs can have such complex emotions like people do.
It’s amazing how emotionally intelligent dogs are often . They’re ready to form loving friendships with people and other animals… and seem to know when a beloved passes away.
And a bit like people, dogs can undergo their own grieving process. That was the case for one dog, who showed his loyalty even after his friends had died by visiting their graves a day. Tricycle may be a three-legged retriever rescue who lives at Horse Creek Stable Rescue Sanctuary in Mineral Bluff, Georgia. Living in the farm sanctuary, Tricycle has always had many other animals to be friends with. The rescue takes all together sorts of special-needs animals, from dogs to llamas and alpacas. One of the primary animals he formed a bond with was another dog named Major, a St. Bernard/mastiff mix.
Sadly, Major gave up the ghost in 2016, and the tricycle seemed to really feel the loss. Was buried on the farm, like all the animal’s rescues who die , and got his own grave marker. But after his burial, the rescuers noticed something remarkable: Tricycle would stay by the gravesite, mourning his old friend:
He continued to go to for about three days, and his owners knew this was a true grieving process. “Like many folks , there's a way of loss that we all got to run through ,” Lester Aradi, the owner of the sanctuary, told People. “Animals even have that sense of loss.” It seems, it wasn’t just a special relationship he had with Major — Tricycles have been seen mourning for all the dead animals. Most recently an alpaca named Trixie died, and therefore the dog was found laying by her grave.
It’s a gorgeous story that shows how real the love between animals is often, and how dogs can have such complex emotions like people do.