Hi – I’m Amy! I love lattes, love stories, and laughing.

The journey that led me to create this space for all pet lovers has been a long one and one that I didn’t want to be on. But with great loss comes great awareness and healing. I hope to provide a safe community for healing for everyone experiencing this type of loss. 

Mine is a story of collective grief. All of us expect that life will happen to us. We think that we are ready for it. Well, life happened to me all at once in a short period, and I wasn’t ready for it.

A divorce, the loss of my father, and the loss of my beloved Chocolate Lab Bear, and then Jake died. 

I was prepared for Jake to die. My handsome yellow lab had cancer, and it had been a long process of caring for him and preparing him to go home. 

The part that completely shook me to a place I did not know existed was when Bear suddenly died four months before Jake. This was not the plan. I only had enough in me to live out the plan that I knew I could handle in my head. Because of all of the grief I was already in, I had absolutely no way to cope with Bear passing, and then to have to deal with Jake passing just a short time afterward sent me into a dark place.


I knew I needed help. 

I sought help in all the places I knew of, and when that did not work, I searched for anything else that offered a glimmer of hope to me. 

I was lonely. 

I was searching for people who understood my pain. Searching for someone that could offer me even the smallest escape from what I was feeling.

I felt guilty about the decisions I had made during Bear’s final days. I would ask myself, what if I had made a different decision? Would he still be here, would he be healthy, would he be happy, would I be happy? 

I felt extreme sadness. I missed my boys. I needed them now, and they were not here for me.

I felt hopeless, and I was not sure how this tremendous feeling of loss would ever leave me. 

I searched for a place where I felt understood, a place that offered me some immediate relief during the times when things just felt too overwhelming, a place that would honor Bear, Jake, and me as a family that was grieving a life-changing loss. 

Slowly I found the tools that I needed to reach the other side. The place where I can understand and accept the events that took place and have peace that my boys are happy and I can move forward into a life that continues to celebrate them each day.

I created this site to share this healing with you. I want you to feel my hand reaching back for yours and letting you know that there is light. 

The animal community is comprised of beautiful souls. Our relationship with animals has made the world a better place and brings out the purest form of love. Animals bring out some of the strongest emotions we have – love, laughter, hope, companionship, friendship, sacrifice, and sorrow. Our love of all things animals has inspired some of the greatest accomplishments throughout the world. And so, we shouldn’t expect our grief to be any less, the hurt to be any less when a beloved animal has passed away.

I’m so glad you found me because you are not alone.