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Share your experiences of pet bereavement, pet death and pet grief here.
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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 pet bereavement and pet grief, and any lessons pet ownership and pet bereavement may have taught you.
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Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Beloved Buddy
My beloved Buddy was born in May 2002 and I got to hold him right after he was born. I knew he was going to be my dog after what he was doing in the kennel....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'A Lifetime In Two Short Years'
In 2008 I lost my miniature Schnauzer "Fritz" to old age.. I brought Fritz home when he was only two months old, and sent him home to God when he was almost ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Dr. CC - Charlie Chan My Medicine Man'
The only thing that made my heart feel better was to hold Charlie Chan. The boy was my soul mate, so special to me that from the time I laid my eyes on ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Clifford Has Been at Rainbow Bridge For Almost 2 Years'
Clifford, 2 years old since June 3rd 2009, was sadly hit by a car on August 31st 2009 I believe. I could have never imagined something so tragic. Just ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Best Friend'
Like everyone here I would say I lost the best dog in the world, but they are all, to us, the best dogs in the world and why we all share the pain of losing ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'The Life That Was Gone Within a Few Steps'
My 3 year old Great Dane got hit by a speeding car on July 3, 2011. I got back from walking him to a store down the road from my house and I put him in ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'The Best Thing That EVER Happened To Me'
When I was 4, we went to a shelter to look for a puppy. We looked around, and then came across this little puppy, who was much different from every other ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Apple Pie'
Delightful and sweet.
The day had come when a decision must be made.
An average day with our complete family including 2 OAP Labradors, a spritely ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Farewell Cosmo'
My 12 year old male Vizsla Cosmo was struggling with breathing problems, later diagnosed as pneumonia and treated with antiobiotics. An X-ray showed he ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'She Was A Good Dog'
A dogs life is a beautiful thing. I have always thought that dogs are probably the most pure, most innocent, most honest creatures in this world. No other ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Buddy, My Best Friend'
Today was the hardest day of my entire life. My family and I made the decision to put our family dog to sleep, fourteen year old Buddy. I got Buddy when ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My "Sister" Maya'
The day I got Maya, my new chocolate lab puppy, was one of the best days I can remember in my life. I was in 3rd grade and we picked the runt of the litter....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bear, My GSD'
I had to put Bear to sleep two weeks ago, he couldn't get up and walk anymore. I carried him to the entrance of the vet office, where he laid down and ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Baby Christian'
Christian was a beautiful 1 year old grey and white pit bull puppy. I would call him kitten because when you pet him he purred. He was the first born ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bonnie'
I first had my miniature Yorkshire Terrier when I was 8 years old, so over 15 years now she was a strong little dog, never had to take her to the vets ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Beauty and the Beast That Took Her'
Well I didn´t know about this site until now and I´ve decided to tell you my story about my Cocker Spaniel. Beauty was a 3 year old pure bred all black ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Akasha - You Will Be Missed'
When I woke up this morning I surely wasn't thinking of putting my dog to rest, even though she had become quite ill during the past 12 days. I had hopes ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Short, But Memorable Time With My Baby Bella'
I received Bella (a joyful little dachshund) from my sister who could no longer keep her. Bella was about four months old at the time. I fell in love with ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Precious Buck'
My family and I chose Buck from a litter of four when he was five weeks to the day. We picked him up the following week (Mother's Day) when he was only ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Benson - My Best Friend'
My dog Benson, a golden retriever. The only friend I could trust. He would greet me everyday when I walked in the room and he would know when I was sad ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Benson'
I lost my beautiful dog on the 18/01/10 44 days ago and I'm totally devastated. He was mine and my partners child, he was fifteen years old and the most ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Darling Bandit'
When Bandit came into my life, he was a very thin and extremely fearful 18 month old Chiuaua/whippet mix. When I first went to see him he barked and snarled ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Clancy' August 21, 2009
On August 21st I found my dog of 11 years unable to walk and in great respiratory distress. A trip to the vet revealed that Clancy had congestive heart ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Beloved "Chicken"'
On January 6, 2010, the day I had dreaded for many years had finally arrived. My little white Chihuahua named "Golden" aka "Chicken" had to be put to ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Brandy: God's Greatest Gift To Me'
So it's been less than 72 hours since I had to give Brandy back to God and another sleepless night for me. The loss I feel is immeasurable yet I'm beyond ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Charo - A Difficult Loss'
My family and I had a Chihuahua named Charo for 5 years. She was so wonderful, our best friend a true family member with such a loving personality. Unfortunately ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'How Could This Happen?'
My life feels totally out of control. The puppy that I raised from 8 weeks to 14 months attacked my neighbor and put her in the hospital for a week. She ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Blackface Jet'
My daughter had been to visit a dog friend in Wales, when she came home she told me that she'd heard of a collie that was 'surplus to requirements' to ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bentley'
We found Bentley at a difficult time in our lives - in the middle of building a house, financial strains and new jobs. I was slow to embrace this little ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Blue'
It's been 26 days since my beautiful beautiful Blue passed. I can't seem to come to grips with my grief. Just when I feel that I can finally talk about ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'The Tragic Death of Cooper
Taken from us at such a young age'
I got a phone call from my little sister that my adorable puppy who weighted only 1.2kg named COOPER died a tragic death on tuesday 22 september 2009.
It ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Barabbas...One Year Later'
It's been one year today that I had to give you back.... there has not been a day that you have not been in my thoughts.
I love you so much that sometimes ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Our Prince, Now and Forever....'
We have lost 4 dogs in the 31 years we have been married. There is not time or space to write about all of them. I will write about the first pet I lost,...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Cindy - A Piece of my Heart'
Saturday the 20th of June 2009 was the worst day in our family, when our pet decided to get very ill, so ill in fact, that she expired on 21st of June ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Our Baby Bubba'
Where do I begin, this little white furry friend was our baby. A friend told me there was a dog that needed a home. He had been abused mistreated, I went ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Best Friend'
I got my dog Bear when I was 4 years old, and immediately fell in love with him. I remember him dragging me on a sled in the winter time or him taking ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Gentle Ben'
I was in college and a newlywed. We were living on a small ranch north of Tampa Florida near a lot of farmland. The place down the street from us was ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Betrayed By My Own Dog'
I had two dogs, Bonnie, my chihuahua and Princess, a boxer/pitbull mix. We introduced Princess to an 8 year old Bonnie when princess was merely 2 months ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Cassie's Story'
(Bassett Hound died of Lymphoma)
Cassie was born May 2005. She was diagnosed with Lymphoma November 10, 2008. On February 9, 2009 (my birthday) we found out that the cancer had spread ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'I've Lost My Best Friend'
Saturday, I lost my Annie. I got her in August of '99. She was so beautiful, and scared. I had to carry her to my pickup, and then into the backyard....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Babes', the saddest face, the warmest heart'
I am still in a state of shock, grief, and cannot describe in words even here, the loss I feel about having to give the Vet 'permission' to inject my lovely ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Good Friend is Gone'
My good friend Cheri has left me. It's been a year now since she has gone. I still find myself crying from time to time. But the memories she left will ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Casey'
On November 20th at 12:25am I said good-bye to my "old man" Casey, an eleven year old Golden Retriever. He was diagnosed three months ago with Lymphoma....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Cocoa My Loving and Steadfast Companion'
We lost our boy Cocoa last month, soon to be 13 he had been declining for months. He had been diagnosed with cancer almost 1 year prior to his passing....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Barabbas...My Old Man'
Three weeks ago my life as I knew it stopped. My beloved Great Dane slipped from my grasp and I had no control to stop it.
Barabbas came into my life ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bubba'
Bubba was my doggy.
The best of all his kind.
I love him so dearly.
I have so many memories of him.
Some good and not so good.
But I love ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Losing Buddy'
Buddy came to live with us by accident. We already had a female Dachshund named Prissy. One of my daughter's friends got Buddy and my daughter noticed ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Boy Has Gone'
My old male rotty was put to sleep last thursday, I held him in my arms until he fell asleep, my heart is broken so bad, I cannot come to terms with his ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Clover Girl'
I'm writing this story 5 days after my beautiful Golden passed away. I would have never thought I could write this so soon, for all this week has been ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Beloved Bandit'
Bandit was 6 weeks old when I first brought him into my life and from the first time I laid eyes on him I wanted him.
He was 9 years old when he passed ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Clara'
Here's a little piece following the loss of our young brindle Great Dane bitch some years ago. It deeply affected our eldest son such that he found it ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Where Does The Time Go?'
This Friday (January 27th 2012) marks one month since I last saw and held my Angel on this Earth and one month since my heart was broken ...
Co Co was ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'I Will Always Miss You'
I have had many pets in my life and they have all been very special. I have, still do, consider my four legged loved ones as family. However, there are ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'RIP Buckeye'
My aunt, uncle, and cousin bought a cute, 2.5-pound yorkie from a pet store four years ago. We visit them often, so they and their pets are like family....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Best Friend - Chevy's Story'
It was a warm summer day. I heard somebody was giving away chocolate and black lab puppies. I instantly jumped on the chance to get one. I went to look ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Cabo's Short Life'
My sister had lost her dog through natural causes of old age. She waited a long time to start to bring in a new dog. I had gone through a terrible divorce ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Baby Boy Charlie'
My baby boy Charlie was given to me as a gift on my birthday by my best friend and room mate. He was already attached to her when she gave him to me. I ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Sweet Aggie Girl'
My dear, sweet Scottie, Aggie, was put to rest last Tuesday at 10am. It was the most difficult decision I have ever made and after three days of watching ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Whelming with Grief'
His name is Chewy Vuitton. More caring then a person, he would know when to stay by me while I took my medication. He would hear the machine stop, look ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Abby, Our Big 'Ol Gal'
On a hot summer day our daughter came home with a little black bundle that someone had decided to throw in a ditch by the side of the road. She was covered ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Chocolate aka Coco'
Coco was born on December 7, 2001. She was Chihuahua Terrier mix. Coco was very unusual dog. She was a loner type dog but having two other dogs around ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'The Story Of My Sheltie'
Valentines Day 2000, my mom and dad came home to surprise my sister and I with our first puppy ever. A Shetland Sheepdog was chosen because of my grandmother ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Hero'
Most of my adult life I was an extremely violent relationship, but finally in 2007 I got the strength to get break free of the violence. I knew that I ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Babies ):'
Hi, I am Gladys and I had 2 puppies a Poodle mix named Bella and a purebred Rat Terrier named Samuel, well here is their story,
One day I had barely ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Boomer'
Boomer came to me at a time in my life when I was very sad and felt like I had no one who cared. I remember taking one look at him and knew that he was ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Bruno'
My pitbull puppy wasn't even 2 years old yet and he passed away January 9th 2011. It was a regular Sunday and he was perfectly fine. I was in my bed laying ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'BoBo You Were and Will Always Be Mama's Special Boy'
BoBo, the first time I saw you I thought you were the cutest little Boston Terrier I had ever seen. I could see that you had a lot of personality and ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Sweet Beau'
I got my dog, Beau, eight years ago from a litter of free pups my in-laws had. He picked me. He was the last one left and he'd always follow me around ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Grieving Over The Death of My Bella'
It's been almost 4 months since my little dachshund named Bella passed suddenly, and every single day, I think of her, and weep. The night is the worst ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Annie Foe Fanny'
(The Little Princess)
The day you stepped into our lives would be the day we would fully understand what unconditional love really meant. You were our beautiful Princess a little ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Rest in Peace'
Okay so here is a short story about the last dog I lost. Asteroid was his name, but we called him Aster or Boo-Boo.
Asteroid was my old dog. I got ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'You Will Always Be In My Heart.'
Okay here's my other story about 1 of the 3 dogs that died in a tragic accident. I hate how they all died because of a fire, I wish all of them could have ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Baby Cupcake'
I got my baby girl from a pet store that specializes in tea cup dogs. She was so small she only weighed 1 pound. She was small enough to fit in your hand,...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Buddy My Beautiful Blue Eyed Boy'
My baby Buddy will be gone one year this Friday, I hate to even think of waking up on Friday Morning June 11. My beautiful boy would have been 21 this ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Codrith Nicole'
On April 1, 1999, a litter of puppies was born. Their mother was a an Akita and their father a Saint Bernard. Five weeks later, the mother was in poor ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Baby Boy Buddy How I Miss You'
With tears rolling down my cheeks again, this never seems to stop, I realize that it will be exactly 6 of the longest and worst months of my life since ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Barney'
I found Barney a yellow lab in a dumpster in the town of Ten Mile Oregon. He was inside of a large dog food bag the first thing in the big metal container....
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Beautiful Buddy'
Well it's been almost 8 weeks, and the longest 8 weeks of my life. I find myself looking at my beautiful Buddy's picture and breaking out into uncontrollable ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'My Dog Ciera'
She was pretty young when she died... they had to put her to sleep because she had Hydrosuffalus (at least I think that's how it's spelled) But it means ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Bailey By My Side'
Our Bailey Dog went to heaven on 12/17/2008. She was recently diagnosed with a mass on her liver and cushing's disease. She seemed to be doing fairly ...
Your Pet Loss Stories
'Our Beautiful Bessy'
Our Bessy was 15 when she passed. She was a black maltease x cockerspaniel. She cought pneumonia one winter and had to be put to sleep. It was a really ...
