Please use the form below to submit your story for inclusion on the Pet Loss Matters site.
Share your experiences of pet bereavement, pet death and pet grief here.
Please feel free to include a photograph of your pet and any other information you would like to add.
You may like to include details such as your pet's breed, how they came into your life, how they were with you through good and bad times, how you lost them and how you feel now about their passing.
You may also like to share how you commemorated their loss, or how you intend to in the future, tips or advice you have discovered on how to cope with the loss of a pet and pet grief, and any lessons pet ownership and pet bereavement may have taught you.
If you would like to add more than one photograph, simply complete an additional form for each extra photo and just let me know your name and the name of your pet so I know where to add them.
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Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Leo'
I had Leo my cat for 10 years and last week we had to euthanize him because of some complications of his heart disease. He started off with a heart murmur ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Baby, the Indoor Only Cat, Doesn't Survive'
My name is Linda and I had my cat, Baby, for 19 years. Last Friday, Sept. 9, I was out of town and received a frantic call from my husband letting me know ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Callie - I Love You More Than You Will Ever Know'
My sweet baby girl came to me in 1998 when I was 17 and working in the grooming department of a local pet store. A co-worker had found her around her home....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Baxter'
It has only been about 6 weeks since I lost Baxter but from the pain I feel it seems like I just lost him yesterday. Baxter was only 9 so that made it ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Coyote The Trickster'
Coyote was born eleven months ago. He was the last kitten in my cat Moo's litter. He was born eight hours after everyone else, and I was really worried ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'FiFi'
Fifi had been with us for 14 years... I still remember when my mom first brought her home. She was so small and cute... black and white... with her cute ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Ameigo'
He was born on July 22 2004 he and his brothers and sisters. I was there during their births he was the only lil black cat in that litter the rest were ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Belle'
I got Belle when she was just 3 months old. When my family and I brought her home I was so happy she was the first pet I ever had! She had beautiful fur ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Cupcake & Crunchie'
My Wife adopted 2 kittens 12 years ago. A girl and a boy we named Cupcake and Crunchie. They were like our children.
My Wife unexpectedly died on Nov ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Best Buddy... Gone 3/6/09'
I miss my Chubby so much. I watched my Chubbs/Chubby be born 2/99. He was the first of 3 to be born. He also was so chubby so that's how he came about ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Cat Chewie was Killed by my Neighbor's Visiting "Grand" Dog'
My next door neighbors have 2 dogs, labradors. Their successful engineer Daughter has adopted a boxer/pit bull mix. The Daughter and her fiance travel ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Kalle Cibic'
We found our beautiful Kalle when I was 3-4 years old. He was our family´s baby prince for 22 years. He was sick the last 6 years of his precious life ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Goodbye Cody'
I found Cody at a parking lot, being given away. I wasn't looking for another cat 10 years ago, but there he was and I wanted him. I brought him home, and ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Baby'
I will have to keep this brief. I am distraught. My cat, Boots, died a few days ago. I am lost without him. So too is my mother. We loved him so much. He ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Axl'
I found Axl at a pet food store, part of a local organization aimed to find homes for abandoned animals. The moment I saw him I knew he was to be part ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bronze'
I became a foster for the local shelter in DC this summer but it wasn't until October that I picked up my first litter of kittens.
In the litter there ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Iran...the Mechanic's Cat'
Iran can to me one morning as I was working on a truck in the shop. He came out from under a tyre and meowing a lot. He must have been hungry because he ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'One of My Best Loved Pets Was Cleo'
Miss Cleo, our female Tuxedo cat just died and I still cry as it came so suddenly. I must tell you about Cleo and keep in mind I DO NOT know what actually ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Cupcake'
She was my best friend. The thing that when I was down I could go to and she would make me smile. She took the place of my other cat Cookie when she died ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'To My Chloe'
I was just finished vacuuming when I went upstairs to my bedroom. All I could do was scream "oh my god!!!". There was my cat, Chloe, laying dead on the ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Smitten is Called Home'
This morning I was awoken by my son knocking on my door. One look at his sad face and I knew something was wrong. "Mom, your kitty is gone, my dogs killed ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Basil'
I met Basil 6 and 1/2 years ago. I was a shelter attendant for the local humane society, Basil then Meatball was being dropped off. Working at the humane ...
Your Pet Loss Tributes
'My Buddy Bagheera'
In 1993 I had just finished university in Nova Scotia, Canada (I'm originally from Newfoundland, where I am living again now) when I came across an SPCA ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Remembering Madeliene'
I remember the first time that I saw her. It was a week before Thanksgiving U.S.A. and I was washing the downstairs floor. I opened the window to dry ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'A Boy Cat Named Betty'
I never thought I would be one of "those people". You know the ones, those so obsessed with their pets they just aren't normal anymore; those who construct ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bootsy'
My cat Bootsy died today I had no idea until I got back from school I had a dog that died too Chaz and... they'll see each other I keep on trying to think ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'There is never enough time...'
Abby's spiral downward began a month and a half before her death. At 12 she was beginning to slow down but still seemed to have so much life left. Then ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Boots Lives on......'
Two weeks on since my beloved cat, Boots, died, and we (myself and my Mum) still grieve.
We had our lovely friend, our cat, our companion, cremated....
