Recommended Reading
A collection of works to help you HEAL your heart
We have selected the books listed here for you. You will find books that cater to all age groups and backgrounds as well as professional and educational works.
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Pet Bereavement and Grief
The loss of a pet can be as devastating as the loss of a human loved one — yet it is often minimised, misunderstood, or quietly dismissed.
Pet Bereavement and Grief is a compassionate, clinically grounded guide for anyone...
A Field Guide for Pet Caregivers: Anticipatory Grief & Caregiver...
A Field Guide for Pet Caregivers: Anticipatory Grief & Caregiver Fatigue is not a medical manual, training guide, or grief book for after loss—it’s a compassionate emotional Field Guide for people who are actively living inside one of the most complex,...
Dogs Leave Paw Prints Everywhere, Especially Upon Your Heart: Forever...
The Reflection Journal for Dog Lovers provides the space to reflect on your dog and the special relationship you share from both your dog’s perspective as well as your own. Celebrate your dog’s life — write, draw and doodle as you are...
Dear Brave Friend
This gentle and heartwarming story captures the love between a boy and his dog, and the sadness that follows after his cherished dog passes away. Written in the form of a letter from the dog to the boy, the letter...
Pet Loss: A Spiritual Guide
Millions of households include animal companions. While it is absolutely normal and healthy to mourn a deceased pet, the grieving process can be crippling emotionally, mentally, and even physically. This insightful book will help you understand and cope with the...
Unleash Your Grief: The Truth About Pet Loss
When author Renee S. Talbott lost her beloved 15-year-old dog, Rudy, to cancer, her heart broke in ways she never expected. The silence left behind was deafening, the grief overwhelming. In the wake of that loss, she discovered how deep,...
My Pet Memory Book: To Help A Child Through The...
Losing a pet is heartbreaking for all the family, but can be particularly difficult for a child.
This book will help any child who is grieving for a family pet who has died.
- The book allows them to fill...
Loss of a Pet: Explaining Grief and Loss to Children
Pets create great experiences for children: in taking responsibility, learning to love, care for living things and, dealing with loss and grief. Whether their pet has to move, runs away, gets sick or, dies; children will benefit from reading this...
Dear Hobie
Dear Hobie: Letters to My Heart Dog is a dog grief book for adults. A tender, inspirational memoir for adults experiencing dog loss grief. It's for any adult pet parent who has ever loved and lost a once-in-a-lifetime dog....
All Animals Go to Heaven
Anyone who has lost a dearly beloved pet knows that the question of what happens to them after death is a tender, important subject. In this book, author and Christian minister George MacDonald presents the case that the mourning pet...
Healing Your Heart After Pet Loss
Anyone who has lost a beloved animal knows that losing them is one of the most painful experiences we can have. Our animals are treasured friends and family members. Their absence creates a hole in our hearts and lives. The...
THROUGH THE QUIET
#1 BEST SELLER IN PET LOSS GRIEF
"For nearly eighteen years, Angel was more than a dog—she was routine, comfort, structure, and home."
When she died, the world didn’t stop. But something inside did.
Through the Quiet is not...
Goodbye Old Friend: The Euthanasia of Your Horse
“Goodbye Old Friend” addresses the whys, hows, and emotions of equine euthanasia. Part of the veterinarian profession is putting animals down. There are many conditions in horses in which this becomes the right decision. This book will help you to...
Repairing the Heartbreak of Pet Loss Grief: 3 Phases of...
When you lose a pet, you lose a family member. It takes a piece of your heart you cannot get back.
A pet is not just a dog or a cat: a pet is your companion, your best friend. They...
Can a stray dog become man’s best friend?: 5 steps...
An informal handbook that answers all questions about the sterilization of stray dogs (Animal Birth Control programme) and emphasizes its benefits towards creating a rabies-free society for man and dog by 2030. It is a step-by-step guide to bring together...
Pet Loss and Children: A Guide for Parents
This book is a much-needed resource for parents of pet-owning children. It contains information on the grief process in children as it pertains to pet death but also gives the most effective methods of explaining the pet's death and what...