Gifts Ideas For When Your Friend Loses A Beloved Pet

We have bonded over the years with the couple next door over the love of dogs. 

They have always tolerated our four dogs’ barking at everything, especially their dog Kona, as they walk her during the day. 

We have always admired how well-trained and calm Kona has been.

This week, they lost their beloved Kona to an aggressive cancer that she couldn’t fight due to her advanced age. They don’t have human kids, so Kona has been their baby for fourteen years. 

She was a special dog.

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Their loss this week prompted my husband and me to discuss how we should honor their love for their special dog with a gift. 

Flowers didn’t seem to be the thing to honor Kona. 

For the first time ever, I did an online search for gift ideas for pet loss, and I was quickly surprised by how many varied and beautiful items you can purchase to memorialize unconditional love and the hard loss of a pet.  

I know this is not my usual type of post, but one that touches my heart.  

With every loss of one of our pets, I try to keep a small memory keepsake of them, whether it is a small sign, a Christmas ornament, or just their collar in a box. 

Of course, pictures are my favorite, so I make sure I take many pictures of each of my goofy sidekicks throughout the year. 

If you are wondering what gift we decided on, it will be a wind chime. They are avid nature-loving gardeners, and Kona was always in the garden with them. 

However you decide to remember a beloved pet, I hope these gift ideas help you find a way that makes you, or someone you know, smile with the memories.

Hugs,

1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.”

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