Pets or companion animals?

No matter how you refer to them, they are part of your life and my wife and I are grieving for the loss of our beautiful labrador Sephie, who was put to sleep yesterday at the age of 82 (dog years). Together with her brother Paris, we miss her terribly. When we get her ashes returned, we'll take scatter them on her favourite beach where she spent hours and hours chasing tennis balls, bounding through the waves and barking at the seagulls. Bye bye sweet thing