When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering, and Healing

Alan D. Wolfelt

COMPANION Press(Company), 2004 - Self-Help - 96 pages

Affirming a pet owner's struggle with grief when his or her pet dies, this book helps mourners understand why their feelings are so strong and helps them overcome the loss. Included are practical suggestions for mourning and ideas for remembering and memorializing one's pet. Among the issues covered are understanding the many emotions experienced after the death of a pet; understanding why grief for pets is unique; pet funerals and burial or cremation; celebrating and remembering the life of one's pet; coping with feelings about euthanasia; helping children understand the death of their pet; and things to keep in mind before getting another pet.

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We actually were given this book by the "Home to Heaven" veterinarian who came to our house to euthanize our beloved greyhound. Even with of all the books I had gotten from the library, this was the ...

About the author

Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, serves as director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition. He writes the “Children and Grief” column for Bereavement Magazine and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Today. He is the author of Healing Your Grieving Heart, Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart, and Understanding Grief. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Bibliographic information

• Title: When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering, and Healing
• Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: COMPANION Press(Company), 2004
• ISBN: 187965136X, 9781879651364
• Length: 96 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Pets / General; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement