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Patient observes their dog Biscuit's 'gotcha day' with the gravity of a major religious holiday. Social media post with timeline photos. Candle. Special dinner. It has been seven years. Patient forgot their own mother's birthday in March. Biscuit does not know what any of this is.
Annual. Grows more elaborate each year.
None. Biscuit will be served chicken regardless.
Patients with Chronic Pet-Anniversary Remembrance Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Pet-Anniversary Remembrance Disorder present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Dies memorialis animalis sacralis, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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