For anyone who has experienced the gut-wrenching grief of losing your best buddy – your beloved dog, cat, turtle, fish, lizard, snake, pig, bird, hamster, horse (or whatever of God’s creatures you have welcomed into your life), you know that the death of your pet can hurt as much – or even more — as the loss of a close family member.
What pet-less friends, family members, and onlookers may not understand however, is that the death of a pet can bring with it an emptiness and sadness and overwhelming sense of melancholy that lingers long after you’ve held your pet for the last time.
It’s no surprise to lifelong pet lovers that the animal-human bond can be stronger than many human-human bonds. After all, your buddy couldn’t care less if you haven’t brushed your hair for five days, changed your sheets for a month, or are a little bit overweight. All Fido or Stella care about is having you right there at his or her side – within arm’s reach for a belly rub, a long massage, a tail brush, or a romp through the blades of grass in the backyard. No expectations, no disappointments, no disagreements, and no stress. How many human-human relationships does that describe? While certainly there are many happy couples and love-filled families with pets who feel just as devastated when they’ve lost their pet, that grief may be even more profound in a single-person household. Whether the pet was a one-person companion or the joy of the family, there’s an unspoken, indescribable sense of control-less-ness and emptiness that remains when the pet is gone. Realizing your home, your vehicle, your fish tank, and your life is now without that constant companionship of that faithful pet is often hard to face, to handle, or to know how to process. The intensity and longevity of the grief after losing a pet varies among pet owners. Some replace the pet straightaway with a new animal; others can’t bear to pick up the water dish or food bowl for months from where Fido ate her last meal.
While everyone deals with death differently and handles grief in their own time and way, there is a universal commonality that exists among everyone that has lost a cherished pet – the desire to remember that animal and memorialize its life in some way. Providing a full range of pet memorization services and cremation products, Paws & Remember strives to help individuals who have experienced the death of a pet know that grief support can be gained through memorializing their much-loved pet. From decorative urns, pet cremation jewelry, and pet keepsakes, to pet memorial wind chimes, pet ornaments, and pet photo frames and albums, Paws and Remember offers a variety of individualized ways to treasure the memory of your pet.
In addition, Paws and Remember also offers pet cremation services – whether your pet has passed away at home or you’ve brought your pet to their location. While it’s never easy to think about, talk about, or deal with – it’s important to know that a unique service does exist that can help you through a profoundly difficult time.
For more information, contact Paws & Remember (216) 524-8860
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