#petloss — Public Fediverse posts

I just managed to create a post on my website, for the podcast:

https://ethosandempathy.org/en/2026/04/04/participation-in-the-podcast-last-fireflies/

In the following months I will set up a new website, focusing on my grief work, but for now, I share on Ethos & Empathy all my work.

#grief #climate_grief #climateChange #mourning #griefwork #griefrecovery #petloss #petlosssupport #climatemigration #podcast #antispeciesism #antispeciesist_grief #decolonize_grief #decolonize

I am so touched by the first review that I received from my first participant in the #petloss support program, in which I use the #grief recovery method as taught by the #griefrecovery institute.

The grief recovery method is the only evidence based method that helps people process their grief and recover from unresolved grief that causes pain in one's life until it's resolved.

The universe brought in my path the 2nd person with whom I will work the program, when she will receive the handbook!

#grateful #griefwork #mourning #honouring_our_pets

Its nearly 5 years since we lost our dear Freddie. He wasn't even 1 when he left the garden for the last time. Such a soppy loving cat that was usually scared of the outside.

#cat #tabbycat #kitten #catphoto #catphotography #petloss #photo

Pet loss garden to break ground at Heritage Park in April https://www.allforgardening.com/1612590/pet-loss-garden-to-break-ground-at-heritage-park-in-april/ #CENTRALMINNESOTANEWS #CENTRALMNNEWS #garden #gardener #gardening #LAURAELLAVSKY #LAURAELLAVSKYST.CLOUD #LAURAELLAVSKYST.CLOUDMINNESOTA #LAURAELLAVSKYST.CLOUDMN #MINNESOTANEWS #MnNews #PetLoss #PETLOSSSUPPORT

Man ordering steak for dog's last meal is stunned by restaurant staff’s kind response

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/dogs-grief-loss-ex1

Still missing my kitty...My garden buddy. Mornings with Milo were a thing. RIP little one...

Cat In The Garden
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cat-in-the-garden-sharon-cummings.html

#cat #cats #catsOfMastodon #kitty #kittycat #caturday #pets #garden #gardens #gardening #gardener #SharonCummingsArt #animals #buyintoart #petloss #grief #loss #catmom

Still missing my kitty...My garden buddy. Mornings with Milo were a thing. RIP little one...

Cat In The Garden
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cat-in-the-garden-sharon-cummings.html

#cat #cats #catsOfMastodon #kitty #kittycat #caturday #pets #garden #gardens #gardening #gardener #SharonCummingsArt #animals #buyintoart #petloss #grief #loss #catmom

Still missing my kitty...My garden buddy. Mornings with Milo were a thing. RIP little one...

Cat In The Garden
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cat-in-the-garden-sharon-cummings.html

#cat #cats #catsOfMastodon #kitty #kittycat #caturday #pets #garden #gardens #gardening #gardener #SharonCummingsArt #animals #buyintoart #petloss #grief #loss #catmom

Still missing my kitty...My garden buddy. Mornings with Milo were a thing. RIP little one...

Cat In The Garden
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cat-in-the-garden-sharon-cummings.html

#cat #cats #catsOfMastodon #kitty #kittycat #caturday #pets #garden #gardens #gardening #gardener #SharonCummingsArt #animals #buyintoart #petloss #grief #loss #catmom

CM Punk and AJ Lee Grieve Their Beloved Dog Larry in a Touching Tribute

CM Punk and AJ Lee Mourn Their Beloved Dog Larry
World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk posted a heartfelt message on Instagram on Tuesday. He told fans that Larry, the dog he and AJ Lee rescued eleven years ago, has passed away. The post quickly drew sympathy from wrestling fans and animal lovers alike....

#AJLee #CMPunk #dogtribute #Larry #petloss #WWE

CM Punk and AJ Lee Grieve Their Beloved Dog Larry in a Touching Tribute

CM Punk and AJ Lee Mourn Their Beloved Dog Larry
World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk posted a heartfelt message on Instagram on Tuesday. He told fans that Larry, the dog he and AJ Lee rescued eleven years ago, has passed away. The post quickly drew sympathy from wrestling fans and animal lovers alike....

#AJLee #CMPunk #dogtribute #Larry #petloss #WWE

CM Punk and AJ Lee Grieve Their Beloved Dog Larry in a Touching Tribute

CM Punk and AJ Lee Mourn Their Beloved Dog Larry
World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk posted a heartfelt message on Instagram on Tuesday. He told fans that Larry, the dog he and AJ Lee rescued eleven years ago, has passed away. The post quickly drew sympathy from wrestling fans and animal lovers alike....

#AJLee #CMPunk #dogtribute #Larry #petloss #WWE

A woman adopted a blind senior dog. Her 28-day update left everyone a blubbery mess.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rescue-dog-ex1

A woman adopted a blind senior dog. Her 28-day update left everyone a blubbery mess.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rescue-dog-ex1

A woman adopted a blind senior dog. Her 28-day update left everyone a blubbery mess.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rescue-dog-ex1

A woman adopted a blind senior dog. Her 28-day update left everyone a blubbery mess.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rescue-dog-ex1

We had #Bailey’s homecoming. #petloss #mourning #grieving #celebration #return

Oh god that was hard. I opened #Bailey’s shipping container and I have what’s left of him next to #Owein. The waterworks just burst out of me. Everything was done so wonderfully. A dark blue fiber sack, a dark blue bag, and his paw prints in clay in a beautiful dark blue box with a stand.

My sweet love…

For #Caturday. For #CatsOfMastodon. #petloss #grieving

My little girl, #Bailey’s sister, #Keeley is helping me tonight. Taking the place of her dearly departed sweetheart brother. God, I miss him! But I love everyone and when the chips are down, some people really shine. Thank you, everyone, who liked and boosted my darling boys pictures! #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #petloss #grief #healing

Here’s some wonderful images of my sweet #Bailey. He was the best little kitty a daddy could ever have. If you look between his shoulders you’ll see two white marks, we called those his angel wings. #petloss #grief #catsofmastodon #CaturdayEveryday

Farewell, Choco — Lee Min Ho’s beloved dog passes after 16 years of loyal companionship.

#LeeMinHo #Choco #PetDeath #KoreanActor #DogTribute #OmniscientReader #TheProhecy #PetLoss #ActorNews #KDrama #Condolences

💔 Losing a beloved pet is heartbreaking. But how can you heal? Discover meaningful ways to cope with grief and honor their memory. 🐾💖 #PetLoss #GriefSupport #Healing #PetParents #AnimalLovers #CopingWithLoss

https://paminy.com/how-can-you-heal-after-losing-a-beloved-pet/

💔 Losing a beloved pet is heartbreaking. But how can you heal? Discover meaningful ways to cope with grief and honor their memory. 🐾💖 #PetLoss #GriefSupport #Healing #PetParents #AnimalLovers #CopingWithLoss

https://paminy.com/how-can-you-heal-after-losing-a-beloved-pet/

💔 Losing a beloved pet is heartbreaking. But how can you heal? Discover meaningful ways to cope with grief and honor their memory. 🐾💖 #PetLoss #GriefSupport #Healing #PetParents #AnimalLovers #CopingWithLoss

https://paminy.com/how-can-you-heal-after-losing-a-beloved-pet/

💔 Losing a beloved pet is heartbreaking. But how can you heal? Discover meaningful ways to cope with grief and honor their memory. 🐾💖 #PetLoss #GriefSupport #Healing #PetParents #AnimalLovers #CopingWithLoss

https://paminy.com/how-can-you-heal-after-losing-a-beloved-pet/

Just in time for #ScienceWeek, I published "Do Cats Mourn?: Understanding Feline Emotions Beyond Human Comparisons"

#FelineGrief #AnimalEmotions
#UnderstandingBias #CaturdayEve #Cats #PetLoss #Education #HumanAnimalBond #Science #SciComm #AnimalBehaviour #PhilosophicalWorldViews
#AnimalResearch #ResearchInsights #EmotionalWellbeing

https://medium.com/@dwtutoringeducation/do-cats-mourn-understanding-feline-emotions-beyond-human-comparisons-6ed69cc478d1

I have a special connection to #WildRiver #StatePark as it's the last place where I went #camping with my beloved #dog Gunnar. Gunnar was truly the best dog ever. He's been gone since March of last year but sometimes the #grief comes on so suddenly that it's like being punched in the gut. I miss him terribly & I treasure my memories of walking through the prairie grass and sitting by the river.

#minnesota #PetLoss #dogs #Collie @dogsofmastodon #alt4me #outdoors #dogsofmastodon

My heart is totally shattered. We had to say goodbye to our sweet girl today due to congestive heart failure. We just lost our best boy a month ago too after a 2 year journey with degenerative myelopathy. I don't know what to do with myself. The house is so empty.

#PetLoss #DogsOfMastodon #FediDogs #SeniorDogs #CavalierKingCharlesSpaniel #Cavalier

#MondayMourning: The Rainbow Bridge Poem

If you've ever had a pet, you're probably familiar with this poem. It's the go-to condolence for animal lovers. If you're not in the know, it's a poem that's been featured all the way from Dear Abby to every veterinarian's office ever. It describes animals "crossing the bridge" into a super awesome meadow. Their youth, health, and mobility are restored, and they spend their days romping about together. They're fantastically happy, but for one thing: they miss their person.

Eventually, a day comes when the pet sees a familiar figure in the distance. They break from the pack, running to tackle their person with vigor, then escort them across the bridge. Everybody cries.

For years, the poem has been credited as Anonymous or Unknown. Worse, several people have claimed authorship. A writer of pet cemetery books (no, not that Pet Sematery book) recently tracked down the original author. She was astonished to learn that her words had been famous for decades. She still has the first handwritten draft, completed after the family dog died in 1959.

Edna Clyne-Rekhy, an 82 year old artist and animal lover, lives in Scotland. She was only 19 when her dog, Major, died in her arms. Prompted by her deep grief, Edna's mother suggested she write down her feelings. Those words have brought comfort to millions of pet lovers ever since.

#HisAndHearsePress #RainbowBridge #TheRainbowBridge #CrossingTheRainbowBridge #PetLoss #PetGrief #GriefPoems #Veterinarian #EdnaClyneRekhy #OriginalAuthor

Frankenstein has sauntered up the bifröst to Valhalla. She was 17, and in her last years we questioned whether she was secretly immortal, having lived with kidney disease and hyperthyroidism for 5 years or so. But she went downhill pretty fast these last few months, and breathed her last in my arms at about 10 after midnight. She was known by many names: Frankie, Fritz, Franklin, Stinker, Asshole, Purrbox... and I'm sure others I've forgotten, or never knew.

She was, like most cats, aloof and independent...until she wasn't. Then she was all demands for warm snuggles, headbutts to the chin, fish breath in your face. She went through a phase where she would spend winters' nights on my chest with her paws at my throat, firmly massaging the blood vessels which transported blood to and from my brain. I presume my neck was soft and warm, and a more pleasant tactile experience than Ryan's stubble. Or she was trying to help me sleep by rendering me unconscious.

She was sweet and funny, and perpetually exasperated by our stubborn insistence in acquiring additional family members. She never warmed up to our first dog, Bailey, or our current dog, Hazel, but she did enjoy the girls as infants and after age 4. (Toddlers were a no-go).

She would not tolerate additional cats, ever. With her delicate digestion and food sensitivities, she made pretty sure that we wouldn't be interested in additional cats either. I will not miss her special food smells, or the resultant output. I was intermittently allergic to her too - and my eyes would start to burn, stream, and swell for no reason other than she was in my face. When she would affectionately rub her jaw on my chin she left saliva samples, making my skin itch. Not gonna miss that.

I will miss her though. I'll miss the rumbly purr-machine who insisted on snuggling me through every chilly night. I'll miss the chattering sounds when she spied a bird out the window, the deep, unearthly wails she'd release if we let her have her stuffed hedgehog, or just her regular conversation, greeting us, announcing her hunger or thirst. I'll miss the sunlight dappling the striking colors of her coat and illuminating her brilliant green eyes.

Goodbye Frankie, my sweet kitty. I love you.

#petloss #pet #death #catsofmastodon #inmemorium