Q&A for How to Get Another Dog After a Pet Dog's Death

Start saving up your money so that you can really help pay for it. Do everything you can to show her that you're responsible, like keeping up with your schoolwork and doing your chores without being asked. Don't bring up the dog constantly or she'll get annoyed and say no.

Convince your parents to let you bring the dog home. If there are reasons why your dog is dying talk about the reasons and say that you could do better next time. If your dog is dying of something that couldn't be prevented, explain how well you took care of your dog this time and that you would do the same for the other one, plus you'll miss your dog so much you'll need a new companion.

Only you can know when the appropriate time of mourning for your lost puppy has passed. Nevertheless, the joyful enthusiasm and liveliness of a new puppy could go a long way towards easing the pain of losing a pet. Hopefully you will be able to avoid fatal or traumatic attacks on your dogs in the future.

If you love this breed of dog, then get another. But be realistic about the emotional, financial and physical cost to you and the dogs. You do need to be emotionally ready to go through possible problems again, and if not, then consider another breed.

However long you want to wait. There's no "right" amount of time to wait as everyone goes though the stages of grief in different amounts of time. Whether its a few weeks or a few years, you wait however long you want.

Ask your mom what characteristics of a dachshund she likes and why specifically that breed then go away and research an energetic dog, that is playful but try and find a compromise by choosing a breed with a couple of the characteristics that your mom mentioned and ones you like too.

There’s many reasons why your dad may not want another dog. He may still be grieving and doesn’t want to bring home a second dog. Or it could be that he doesn’t want to spend the money. Keeping dogs is not cheap and he may have made a decision that one dog is all that the family can afford from now on. My advice would be to wait a couple months without bringing up the subject and then try to prove to him that you are responsible enough to handle a second dog. At that time, you can ask him why he keeps saying no if that his is answer.

Put together a full blast, over the top cute presentation with pictures of cute puppies. Speak fondly of memories with your dog and explain that it would help ease the pain to get a new dog. When my beloved Shiba Inu died, we got a Golden Retriever and it healed me so much. Explain to them how much you cared about the dog and why you should get a new dog. Make them sad but also hopeful for a new puppy in their lives.