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Preserving Your Pet’s Story During End-of-Life Care
By James Harrison
Guest Blogger | Creative Writer, SnoutCraft
When a beloved pet enters end-of-life care, time can begin to feel both precious and disorienting. There may be medications to manage, appointments to remember, decisions to mak...
What to Do with the Photographs After Your Pet Is Gone
By Nour
Guest Blogger | Creative Writer, AIPetz
I write about pet loss and remembrance, and I spend much of my time in quiet conversation with people in the first raw weeks after a companion animal has died. One moment comes up again an...
Why Pet Loss Grief Deserves the Same Respect as Any Other
By Gabriel Killian
Guest Blogger | Founder of Memorial Merits and U.S. Navy Service Member
The Phone Call Nobody Prepares You For
When my father died unexpectedly in 2019, I was at sea on a Navy ship with over 3,000 sailors and no wa...
Transparency and the Veterinary Grief Gap
By Lindsay Brockman, LVT, PGSS-C
Guest Blogger | EverKin Pet Loss Support
As a licensed veterinary technician, I've spent well over a decade working with pets and their people.
From traumatic cases in the ER to non-profit community-based medicine, th...
10 Ways To Support Someone Grieving a Dying or Departed Pet: A Guide from CodaPet
By Dr. Karen Whala
Guest Blogger | CodaPet
Losing a pet is one of the most painful experiences a person can face. At CodaPet, we understand that grief around pet loss doesn’t follow a linear path — it weaves thr...
Grieving One’s Soulmate Dog
By Michelle B. Slater, Ph.D.
Guest Blogger | michelleslater.com
Having grieved my own beloved animal companion—a charismatic and profound German shepherd named Brady—I would like to share the wisdom I learned as I mourned his loss with readers who are feeling bereft as w...
INTRODUCING - KATHRYN'S KORNER
But I Didn’t Get to Say Good-bye: Coping with Sudden Traumatic Multiple Pet Loss
By Kathryn D. Marocchino, PhD, FT
Animal Hospice Group Founder and Instructor/Lecturer
On March 5 of this year 2024, The Nikki Hospice Foundation for Pets, in partnership with the Humane...
