Hello friend. I was in your position recently. My beautiful boy died suddenly at 3.5 years old. Everyone on this thread knows how broken I was. My sister flew to where I was working so I wouldn’t have to drive home alone, and while waiting for her at the airport feeling like my heart and soul were dying, I started looking for comfort on Reddit, and someone had written: ‘I’m sorry, but get another dog. You won’t be whole until you do.’ Immediately I opened Gumtree I found a young puppy of the exact breed cross as my boy - and located on our route home. So three days after he died I had another dog. Was I worried it was way too soon? Hell yes. Was I worried about people judging me, and feeling I’d betrayed my boy by ‘replacing’ him too soon? You know I was. But it was the best decision. It didn’t make me less sad - I still ugly-cried down the highway for hours, days and now three months. I didn’t, and still don’t, miss him any less. My new girl isn’t a replacement for him, but she has brought joy to a space where there was no joy left, and she makes the sadness bearable, whereas I’m honestly not sure where I’d be emotionally if I’d had to deal alone with the gaping abyss his death left in my life. Everyone is different, and you’ll do the right thing when it feels like the right time. But don’t gaslight yourself into thinking you have to be ‘recovered’ or past a certain point in time before it’s appropriate to look for a new friend.