To answer your question, how to cope?

Cry, communicate with other people who have lost pets (like you're doing now), journal your thoughts and emotions, think about the good times with your pet, read poems like posted above and don't rush out to replace the pet- give it some time.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder