All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
I had a big Akita Yoshi who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12 and I've never been able to replace him. Normally most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal.