Saying Goodbye to Your Angel Animals: Finding Comfort after Losing Your Pet

This was a good book with many helpful thoughts and exercises. Though it touched on most aspects of pet loss grief, I would have preferred more help in the actual grieving aspect and less on the mediative exercises. In my personal situation, my grieving is mainly solo because those around me do not want to speak on it and they feel that I have a limitation on the grieving process timeframe. More in-depth help on the actual grieving processes, step by step, would have been more helpful to me personally. If your grieving involves friends and family, I do recommend this book because the exercises and rituals are helpful in those situations.

After saying good bye to my sweet little man, Gromit, a 13 year old mini doxie I was looking for a book to help me work through my grief. It took me awhile to read the book as I would read a few pages then fall apart, but little by little I made it through. I know as I have been through this only 16 months ago with my little girl, Felony that healing takes time and in time I will be able to talk about Gromit without falling apart just as I'm doing better now with Felony. This book did help me and caused me to look at my furchildrens passing in a different light. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who is going through the terrible pain of saying good bye to their best friend.

my beloved little chihuahua was my constant companion for 10 yrs. we walked every single day basically the same beat. then one beautiful Arizona October day turned to horror as we were attacked by a vicious, loose pit bull. we were both injured, but my pup suffered and died a week later; his little heart couldn't take the trauma of his injuries. had three men not seen and rescued us, we would have both (for sure him since he was being shaken like a chew toy) been killed on the spot. my heart is forever broken and my fingers permanently damaged. this book helped me get through some of my intense grief.

In June we lost our dog Brownie to cancer. I was having a difficult time dealing with my grief, so I decidied to buy this book after looking into it and a few others. It was extremely helpful. There were inspirational stories, ways to deal with your grief, and meditations that help you to mourn and honor the life of your precious animal friend(s). I liked this book because it not only had great stories and advice, it also had a great reference section in case you wanted to work outside of the book.The book is very sensitive to the pet owner's needs, no matter how your pet left you. I recommend this book to anyone dealing with the loss of a pet. I also went to the book's website and signed the guestbook, the next day I received a personal e-mail from the authors. They are very thoughtful people.

This book helped me so much when I lost my little girl in 2010. Now I find myself looking for it again to send to my Mom who is losing her baby girl today. It's so hard to let our little soul mates go. This book is beautifully written and encourages you to take the time you need to grieve. It offers suggestions on how to work through the grief. It helped my soul heal and I hope it helps you too.

I lost my lab "SAM" almost 5 years ago to cancer . It was sudden, shocking, and excruciatingly painfull !!! I wish at the time he passed that I would have known about this book. It was about 2yrs.later when I ran across it in a local bookstore. Even to this day it comforts me when my thoughts of him get me down. If you have ever lost a "four legged " loved one I think this book might help you when one of those heart wrenching days come along. ( And they still do for me ) .

Nothing can ease your grief, but reading this book helped me after a month of a loss of my dog, just to make up my mind and to realize how small part of the universe we are, and that somebody does understand.The book includes practical exercises and in the period of grieving is good to have something written and somebody to tell you what to do, to follow some instructions... at least that helped me!

I bought this book before my 10 year old cat, Koda died from oral squamous cell carcinoma. The stories gave me comfort in just knowing that none of us are alone in how we all grieve for our beloved family members. I found comfort in this book and at times they made me cry, because I could truly feel their pain in what each person had to endure and how they coped. The Andersons have put out other books that I have enjoyed reading. A must read, you won't regret this book.

As the author recognises, losing ones pet is a very personal moment in time and our sense ofLoss is so very different for each of us.The book acts as a guide in this with experiences of people's loss and grief after losing their petAnd how they cope with this.There is a lot of instruction that is highlighted that takes away the personal feeling that one has.I do accept that it is difficult to cover this subject with enough sensitivity, as we would like toLessen the suffering of grief, and share our experiences.Perhaps this could be done more softly as indeed some parts of the book have done.Then it is perhaps something that all of us recognise, that eventually we get over the lossAnd come to terms with whathas happened in our own way.Peter

I have had a lot of death in my life. But the death of my not quite eight year old Miniature Dachshund, Gracie, has affected me with the deepest sorrow I have only experienced with the death of my parents. This book brought tears to my eyes and hope to my heart that I WILL find happiness again. Thank you.

Very helpful in a very difficult time

Great book for those dealing with the loss of a beloved pet. will not hesitate to recommend this book to others