When Your Pet Dies

A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing

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.

This audiobook is expertly read by Manish Dongardive, with audio engineering by Matthew Kulewicz, MPSE. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2004 Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Dog grief

The best book that I’ve listened to. Now I’m going to listen again and probably again and again