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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" (Feline version)

Website status as of 05/20/13 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Saving Time

The Bridgelist & Special Needs List for 05/20/13 are now on the website.

View the most recent Tributes posted.

The Rainbow Bridge story

An answer to: Where do our pets go when they die?
Read the Rainbow Bridge story

Translations:
Terri Pike has created a beautifully animated "Flash" version of the Rainbow Bridge story:
View the animation

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

NOTE: The Monday Candle Ceremony is one hour earlier because Daylight Saving Time is now in effect!
Check the above Countdown Clock to be sure of the time for your location.

Current time
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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 Daylight Saving time.)

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Please Note: Important Chat Room information for AOL dialup users!

(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 Daylight Saving time.)

You can click on the image below to light a virtual candle

Note: This is not a part of Petloss.com or the Monday Candle Ceremony
but it is a nice site where you can light a "virtual" candle in memory of your pet.
(Thanks to CareWolf for setting up the area there for our Petloss family to use.)

Custom Laminated Rainbow Bridge Prints by Petloss.com

"The perfect way to remember and honor your pet"

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Important Notice:

Petloss.com is now in it's 19th year.
It is my 24/7 occupation & my only source of income.
Unfortunately, because of the currently worsening economic conditions, the amount of donations received has dropped dramatically.
It is now below what is needed to keep pet loss grief support features like the Chat Room & Message Board available.
And I can no longer make up the difference from my personal savings.

So if you believe in this website and want it to continue unchanged please support it.

Thanks. EdW

A Meeting at the Bridge

A true & very moving affirmation that the Rainbow Bridge exists
If you participate in the Candle Ceremony, this is something you must read
Read "A Meeting at the Bridge".

How the Candle Ceremony began

Read the story

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