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Grief Therapy of the Four-Legged Variety
Sometimes during periods of grief, a nonjudgmental, comforting presence can be all it takes to lift someone's spirits. A grief therapy dog is a specially trained dog that does just that: providing comfort in times of crisis, grief, or even disaster situations. They will offer individual care, emotional support, and compassionate listening to those affected by the loss of a loved one, as[...]
Navy SEAL Mourned By Loyal Friend
Perhaps Napoleon Bonaparte said it best, upon finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling to the moonlit sky in the battlefield, "This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders[...]
The Joy Sessions
The death of a beloved pet is one of the hardest things a person has to face. To many, a pet's death is as traumatic as a human family member's and for those people whose pets are their only family, their grief is also just as real. Sarah Beth Ernhart is a Minneapolis based pet photographer who has come up with a way to help families remember their beloved pets and help them through[...]
I Leave Everything to... My Pet
With family pets increasingly being treated as members of the family, some people have had the idea to leave their pets a little something in their wills. It could be something simple, like setting aside costs so they could continue living in comfort or a ridiculous extravagance, like in the will of Leona Helmsley. The billionaire hotel tycoon left $12 million for her dog, Trouble,[...]
The Legend and the Controversy Surrounding the Rainbow Bridge Poem
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When a pet that has been especially close to a person here on earth dies that pet goes to the Rainbow Bridge. So begins the first verse of the poetic prose known as The Rainbow Bridge, a poem whose cult popularity has increasingly exceeded[...]
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