The Pet Loss Studio
Pet loss support for where you are today.
Practical guidance, books and private ways to remember your pet, from preparing for goodbye to the months that follow.
Written by C. Arden. Free guides, books available through Amazon and a private memorial space that requires no account.
Start here
Where are you today?
Choose the one that feels closest. Each route shows what is free, what is a book, and one thing you can do next.
Path 01
Your pet is dying.
Guidance for the decisions before a pet dies, including the appointment, the final day and saying goodbye.
Path 02
Your pet has just died.
Start with the free guide for shock, sleeplessness and the practical decisions that follow a pet’s death.
Path 03
You keep thinking you failed them.
Guilt can follow a decision, a missed sign or an unexpected death. Start with the questions that keep returning.
Path 04
You are trying to live without them.
Weekly letters for the first twelve weeks after a loss. The first arrives when you register, and the series is free.
Path 05
You want a place to remember them.
Create a private profile, timeline, journal and photo collection in your browser. No account is needed.
Waiting list open
The First Days Support Pack
Seven resources and a browser-based tool created for the first days after losing your pet. The First Days Support Pack will be available soon. Join the waiting list to be among the first to read it. If you need support today, The First 72 Hours is free.
- Start Here
- How To Get Through The First Days
- The Pet Loss Guilt Guide
- The Quiet Home
- Emergency Calm Pages
- Today Counts
- A Few Words
- A Gentler Thought, an online tool
Books and guides
Books for the part you are living through.
Each book focuses on a specific point in pet loss. Start with the one that reflects what is happening now.
Five more titles cover sudden loss, multiple loss, grief in men, telling a child and making a memorial.
View all books and guides
Free
The Healing Letter
Twelve weekly letters after the immediate shock of losing a pet. The first arrives when you register.
- CostFree.
- How manyTwelve letters.
- How oftenOne a week.
- The first oneSent when you register.
The Healing Letter
Letter one of twelve
Letter one arrives when you register. The next eleven arrive weekly. You can stop at any time.
Twelve weeks, one letter at a time.
Memorial
A place to keep them.
The Pet Memorial Space is free to use and works in your browser. There is no account to create.
- 01A profile with their name, dates, breed and photograph
- 02Memories collected into a timeline
- 03A private journal
- 04Their photographs kept together
- 05A candle lit in their name
Your memorial is saved in your own browser rather than uploaded, and you can download a copy of it whenever you want.
The Studio
Who writes this
The Pet Loss Studio was created after practical help proved difficult to find following a pet’s death. C. Arden writes the guides, books and letters.
Each resource focuses on a particular moment: preparing for a death, the first days, persistent guilt or the months that follow.