Saying Goodbye To Your Angel Animals: Finding Comfort After Losing Your Pet is a thoughtful book written by famed authors Allen and Linda Anderson. This wonderful pet loss book will walk you through the numbing pain and dreadful sense of loss that arise when a beloved animal dies. It will offer solace to help you deal with grief, remember and honor key moments in the animal’s life, find comfort through groups and with professionals, and get past the depression. They also include exercises, affirmations, and meditations to use through the various stages of grief.
The Andersons’ caring, practical advice covers all aspects of pet loss, offering guidance on:
- helping children grieve
- honoring your religious beliefs
- grieving for runaway pets
- helping others know what to say or do to console you
- planning an appropriate memorial ceremony or tribute
The book also explores the concept of after-death experiences of departed companion animals and relates many beautiful stories, including the Rainbow Bridge story, that reinforce the love and sense of peace that come from honoring the place animals hold in our lives. This book is a must-read for those who are grieving the loss of a pet and makes a wonderful addition to any of our pet sympathy gifts and accompanied by one of our pet sympathy cards.
Rainbow Bridge Poem
Just this side of Heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster...
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...
~ Author Unknown
