Jessica Simpson is morbidly depressed after losing her dog, Daisy, to a coyote. Last week, Jessica twittered that Daisy was carried away by coyotes and since then she launched an exhaustive “Find Daisy” campaign. It was almost laughable — well in a tragic way — that Jessica would think the dog would be returned. As if coyotes would read the sign, or something.

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On a serious note, Jessica‘s friends are very worried about her. She loved that dog.

“Daisy was her baby,” one of them tells PEOPLE. “It’s going to put her into a tailspin. It will put her into the worst place ever…She won’t leave her parents’ house,” a source says. “Whenever things went wrong for Jessica, she reached for Daisy,” another source, a friend, says. “Daisy was her security blanket. When people let her down, she always had Daisy.”

Apparently, she fed Daisy steak and not dog food and referred to herself as “Daisy’s mom” not “Jessica Simpson.”

“She threw Daisy birthday parties, and when she talked about having a “girls’ night in” with a video, she was talking about herself and Daisy….”Jessica is very needy. She is very clingy,” the friend said. “She is so sweet, but sometimes because of that she’s hard to be around. It’s not always easy. She hates to be alone. That’s what happened with [ex-boyfriend and Dallas Cowboys quarterback] Tony [Romo]. Jessica smothers people. She doesn’t really have any hobbies. Daisy was exactly what Jessica needed.”

Wowza. We’ve heard of pet-obsessed but that’s a bit much.

Photos: Bauer Griffin

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