Grief & Bereavement Counseling

When your pet dies, you have only a few legal options for disposing of the body. If you own the land you live on, you can bury the animal in your yard, as long as it doesn't create a "nuisance," and the body is demonstrably disease-free, and the plot is sufficiently far away from a water supply. If you're a renter, good luck getting permission from the landlord to dig a grave on th

I am a pain specialist for animals; I frequently counsel caregivers on end-of-life issues and know many ways to help animals cope with pain, anxiety, fear and other suffering. Even then, I run out of options. So it was for me when our four-legged soulmate developed a sudden onset of severe and painful symptoms with his illness. Watching him cry and appeal to me for relief, with no solution except to keep him sedated until death, whenever that arrived, made it feel completely right to give him a

The last 11 months my family has spent without our beloved German shepherd. It just seemed wrong to get another puppy, so for almost a year we didn't. And the void turned into normalcy.

DEADWOOD | A local family is mourning the loss of its beloved dog this week after a mountain lion snatched it from their backyard in broad daylight, killed it in

I have been lucky enough to have a wonderful dog live to be almost 19 years old before having to have her put down.

The woman claims her golden retriever's journey was delayed over 14 hours.