Would You like to contribute to the site and start a Pet Loss Diary?

'Your Pet Loss Diaries' – Your Chance to Contribute and help others

As you will see from the site, I believe sharing your story and writing about your experiences of pet loss can be a great help at a trying and difficult time. I also believe that reading the feelings and experiences of others can really help you to feel that you are not alone and that your feelings, however crazy they may seem at the time, are wholeheartedly shared by others.

Whilst writing a Tribute and sharing your pet loss story can be a great help, once they are written some people find they want to write more, especially in the ups and downs or pangs and waves moments of pet loss.

With this in mind I would like to ask for your help in launching a new feature on the site called ‘Pet Loss Diaries’. Keeping a diary of your thoughts and feelings can be really beneficial as it allows you to pour out those feelings and experience them fully, especially if you are in a situation such as work or around others who do not understand, where you feel you have to hide your true feelings and put on a ‘brave face.’

I am looking for people at all stages of pet loss who would be interested in keeping a diary of their thoughts and feelings to be published on the site. Each diary will be updated daily or weekly depending on how you wish to contribute. I am looking for people who would like to share the true feelings and thoughts experienced before, during and after pet loss.

Perhaps your pet is currently sick or elderly and you are having to consider euthanasia, or perhaps you have recently lost your pet and are working through the stages of grief, or perhaps you lost your pet some time ago but are still finding it difficult to cope without them. Whatever your circumstances if you feel you are still experiencing grief symptoms or pangs and waves I would love to hear from you.

To begin your diary I just need you to tell me about you and your pet and the situation you are currently facing. I will then set up a page for each diary which can be added to as the days, weeks and months go by. When you feel ready you will also be able add photos of your pet to your diary.

It is my hope that writing these entries will help those who take part express their grief and reading these entries will provide reassurance to others who wrongly believe that pet loss grief should be something they get over quickly or that their feelings are over the top and even over indulgent.

If you would like to take part please click here – Pet Loss Diaries – Set Up Page

Please note I am away in Wales for a week from the 8th of September and whilst I fully intend to continue updating the site during this time, the storms currently being experienced in the UK may prevent me from accessing the internet, so if there is a delay in me getting back to you, please rest assured I will contact you on my return.

If you would like to start writing entries for your diary before then, please write and save them in a text editor such as Word or Notepad and you will then be able to copy and paste them as soon as I send you the link to your diary page.

Many thanks for your continuing support.