Memorialising Your Pet

It can be a very traumatic experience when your beloved pet passes away. Whether you have had to euthanise them due to illness or old age or if they pass from natural causes, the grief we feel can be overwhelming. 

Although their memory will live on in your heart, there are a few special things you can do to hold their memory in a physical sense.

Memorialising Your Pet with Keepsakes

Over the years our furry four-legged friends become a special part of our families, a constant presence of love and cuddles. They provide us with unconditional love and loyalty, so it stands to reason when they leave us, we feel heartbroken, an emptiness where they once stood. 

Pet memorials can help us heal, part of the healing process is paying tribute to and remembering those we have lost.

Let’s explore how to keep their memories alive because even though they leave paw prints on our hearts we may need something special to remember them by, something to come back to.

DIY Pet Memorial

Creating your own pet memorial can help with the grieving process, making a unique keepsake that reflects your bond with him or her will help your heart to heal.

Planting a tree or a shrub with flowers in their favourite spot in the garden, decorating the area with special stones, a statue or handmade plaque will help you capture their personality in your creations.

A keepsake box filled with their favourite toy, their collar, or their name tag along with belongings that remind you of your pet and your bond, you could also add photos.

Or simply a framed photo or collage of photos on the wall with their name tag mounted to it, is a beautiful tribute.

Customised Pet Memorials 

Because pets hold a special place in our hearts there are many beautiful ways you can celebrate their lives. Here are just a few options available. 

Memorial stones or rocks are a beautiful way to honour your fur baby, they are available in many shapes and sizes. The stones or rocks are generally naturally occurring stone, which will last a lot longer than resin or concrete and are more natural, by engraving a personal message or paw prints you can create something special that will last.

Cathy’s Mosaics is a local business in the Tweed Heads area that makes gorgeous personalised mosaic memorial stones – for more information on Cathy’s work call 0417 816 954.

Urns 

If you have decided to cremate your pet Urns are a popular way to keep their ashes, there is a huge variety available from the traditional Urn to adorable pet urns. Urns come in many shapes and sizes keeping your pet's ashes close can help with grief and, maybe one day when you are ready you will scatter them somewhere special.

Paw Prints 

A lot of cremation services and vets offer inked paw prints and will also collect a lock fur for you to keep safe. To preserve the hair, you need to keep it in a tightly closed container like a locket or small box. 

Inked paw prints are a lovely keepsake, you can tuck the print away in a special place or frame the print, there are many online services that can turn an inked print into something more artistic, capturing your pets’ character. Pets Eternal on the Gold Coast offers an inked paw prints service as well as other cremation packages that can be customised.

Paw print imprints are another lovely choice, the Peaceful Vet offers paw imprints in Clay that are air-dried which is a beautiful way of honouring your fur baby, you could place it somewhere special in the house alongside other pieces you wish to keep close as a tribute to them.

The Peaceful Vet

Losing your furry four-legged friend is a heart-breaking journey filled with loss and grief and seeking support and guidance may feel like an overwhelming task, Dr. Amy Arnell is a caring and gentle veterinarian who can help guide you through all the steps to put your pet to rest and help find the truest way for you to pay tribute to them. For more ideas on memorialising your pet take a look at Amy’s Video The Peaceful Vet