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Pet Loss Grief Support, Rainbow Bridge & Candle Ceremony

Welcome to Petloss.com, a gentle and compassionate website for pet lovers who are grieving over the death of a pet or an ill pet. Here you will find personal support, thoughtful advice, The Monday Pet Loss Candle Ceremony, Tribute Pages, healing poetry, the Rainbow Bridge Poem & much more.

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Read "Welcome At Rainbow Bridge" (Original version)

Read "Welcome At Rainbow Bridge" (Feline version)

A Christmas Story - by Marion Hale
A very special story of Christmas at the Rainbow Bridge.

A Personal note... At this season of joy and celebration, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has helped make this place a genuine source of healing for so many hurting hearts. I thank all of you in this nebulous, yet very real, thing called cyberspace who take the time to open your hearts to others who have also lost a beloved pet.
A special thanks to the volunteer Message Board Moderators and the volunteers known as the "Wolf Pack" who provide support in the Chat Room.
And to the many who find the holiday season full of painful reminders, I send prayers for your healing and make this promise: When the time is right, those memories will bring you smiles, not tears.

Love, Light and Healing. EdW

Website status as of 12/17/24 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Please Note: Because of server problems the lists for 12/16/24 were NOT uploaded.
They will be combined with the 12/23/24 lists when they are uploaded next Monday.

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Healing Words of the day by BluesWolf

Frequently updated poems/prose to help heal your heart.
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The Rainbow Bridge

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 the 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...

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The Monday Pet Loss Candle Ceremony

(The Candle Service & list of names.)

Read the Candle Ceremony Information Page

Translations:

On Monday evenings all across the globe we light candles in memory of our pets who have gone on to Rainbow Bridge. It is a very healing ritual with no adherence to any religion or creed, just a simple lighting of candles to bring us all together.
While there is an on-line Ceremony in our Chat Room every Monday, the Candle Ceremony does not have to be done on-line. Each of us can light our candles in our own way, and privately, but since we share a common love and since most of us do light them at the same time, we are joined in love and in spirit.

Candle lighting times are...
In USA:
10 PM Eastern
9 PM Central
8 PM Mountain
7 PM Pacific
6 PM Alaska
5 PM Hawaii

The next Candle Ceremony will be held at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time / 03:00:00 Universal Time.*
on Monday December 16 2024

*(Click HERE to display the current Universal Time.)

We also have online lists of the pets we honor in the Monday Candle Ceremony:
The Bridgelist for those pets who have passed on to the Rainbow Bridge and the Special Needs list for those pets who are ill or have special physical needs.

You are invited to add your pets to these lists at no cost to you.

Add your pet to the Rainbow Bridge List
View the Rainbow Bridge List

Add your pet to the Special Needs List
View the Special Needs List

In addition to the Bridge and Special Needs lists, you can have your special thoughts about your beloved pet & a photo be memorialized in a Permanent Tribute.
Add a Tribute to your pet
View the Tribute Pages

Grief Support Message Board

This safe, monitored, Message Board is available for anyone who is grieving the loss of a pet or an ill pet and wants to communicate with others in the same situation.
Go to the Message Board

Grief Support Chat Room

Always open & available to everyone needing support.
(This is where the online Pet Loss Candle Ceremony is held every Monday at 10:00 PM Eastern time.)
Enter the Chat Room
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(For those who cannot attend the regular Monday Ceremony there is a special Candle Ceremony, once a month, on the second Sunday of the month, at 3:00 PM Eastern time.)

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"The perfect way to remember and honor your pet"