Fear not, Gigi. We will have another eventually...M takes an especially long time to get ready. I'm not much different, really.
If you want the new dog to be the old dog, then that's an unfair expectation. Unfair expectation is the first step to unhappiness.
So we have to be emotionally past that desire, want, and wish.
At least, that's where we come down on it.
Getting closer to ready, I think.