Daily Dad on Grieving the Loss of a Family Pet
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about how your relationship with your dog changes after having kids, why it’s important to make peace with your dogs before they go, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. |
| 0:24.7 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.3 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we do our meditations on how to be a |
| 0:39.9 | better parent. Then on the weekend, we do either deep dives into parenting topics or we do a |
| 0:46.7 | conversation with my writing partner, Niels Parker, and myself, both fathers of young children. |
| 0:54.0 | I was just talking to someone about this the other day, Niels, |
| 0:57.0 | and I know you're going through a little bit too. |
| 1:01.2 | When you have a dog and then you have kids, |
| 1:06.1 | your relationship with the dog changes. |
| 1:08.5 | And we were at some party and we were talking like a kid's birthday party and we're all |
| 1:13.7 | talking about our dogs. |
| 1:14.9 | And everyone had like really old dogs. |
| 1:17.9 | And it occurred to us because we all have young kids that these were all like the dogs we |
| 1:23.7 | got in our like early 20s or whatever. |
| 1:26.8 | And so like there it's like we're all, uh, we're all running out the clock on that like |
| 1:34.8 | sort of first like pre-child like pre really any responsibility thing. |
| 1:40.6 | Like this doxin, my wife and I have is 15 years old. |
| 1:46.5 | I don't know if I, if I, if I really understood how long 15 years was when we got it, you know? Um, but, uh, you know, this thing went, |
| 1:53.2 | this dog went from like the, the sole object of our affections to like this, uh, uh, the worst roommate ever, you know, |
| 2:03.5 | that's where I categorize her now. Or it's like, like an, it's like an elderly relative, |
| 2:10.0 | uh, who used up all of your patients and affection, uh, by being like a racist or something, |
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