Pet Loss Support Group VIA ZOOM

In person meeting is cancelled and meeting will be held via Zoom.  Meeting details are below: https://zoom.us/j/94356084803 Meeting ID: 943 5608 4803 (301) 715-8592 US When your companion animal dies, it’s natural to feel grief and sadness, even depression. Our free...

When Our Pets Die

There’s nothing simple about the death of a loved pet: when to let go, how to even approach making that decision, how to grieve, how to talk about our grief. Another and potentially quite touchy piece of that awful puzzle is the question of animals’ “soul” and place...

Giving The Bird

Defying several stereotypes, my mother was not a very good cook, and neither did she ever show much interest in becoming one. I remember asking about turkey one franks-and-beans Thanksgiving (not a good cook, she was a good warmer-upper) and getting quite a story in...

Animals Grieve

The CNN report back a few months ago said it well: “It was a journey of love, driven by a mother’s loss, stretching across a thousand miles of ocean as the world watched and wondered. An apparently grieving female orca whale who swam with the body of her dead calf for...

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