I am studying for an MA in Human-Animal Interaction with the Psychology department of Stirling University and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research project on Companion Animal Bereavement.  
I am particularly looking for an even spread of male and female participants and across all small companion animals: rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, reptiles as well as cats and dogs. For this research I will not include larger animals such as horses and pigs, or fish.
I have designed the questionnaire to be as concise as possible, concentrating on the level of attachment people feel for their pets, the grief they experience after the death and the support they receive from their friends, family and others around that time. As well as the usual multiple- choice questions with scaled answers for quantitative analysis, I have included two long-answer questions to which I will apply a qualitative analysis. It should take less than 20 minutes to complete.
The survey has been approved by the General University Ethics Panel and the Animal Welfare Ethical Review Body and is to be completed by UK adults over the age of 18(Or Stirling students 16+) who have had a pet die within the last two years, to cover the period before, during and after the pandemic.   

I would like to complete data collection by the end of June so I would appreciate it if you could participate within the next couple of weeks. 

I am available to answer any questions about the survey on ajy00002@students.stir.ac.uk.