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Saying Goodbye to Your Angel Animals: Finding Comfort after Losing a Pet by Allen and Linda Anderson (New World Library, August 1, 2008). For everyone who loves an animal the day eventually arrives when it is necessary to say goodbye. Most people admit this is one of the hardest things they ever have to do. Now where can they turn to for unconditional love? How will they fill the hole in their hearts?

This comforting book is lovingly written by authors who have personally taken the journey through loss and with the thousands of people who write to share stories about their special pets.

The book is organized into two sections: Rainbows and Bridges. It expands upon the themes of the powerful Rainbow Bridge essay by helping readers remember the colors of their pets' rainbow and cross over bridges of grief to find healing and acceptance.

Saying Goodbye to Your Angel Animals contains three types of memorial services - cycles of life (nature), Judeo-Christian, and New Thought-based. The services can be used exactly as written or with sections interchanged. The Rainbow Bridge essay is included for use with the service and there are instructions on how to conduct them.

This comprehensive book also suggests rituals and tributes that can help to bring closure and healing.

Important topics in this book include:

• Grieving when others don't understand the depth of your emotions

• Organic grieving - at in your own pace, in your own time, in your own way

• Handling a disconnect between longing to meet your pet in heaven and your religion or congregation's views on the subject

• What NEVER to say to someone who has lost a beloved pet

• Overcoming guilt and regrets after the pain of a euthanasia

• Dreams and spiritual experiences with pets after death

• Helping children through the death of a pet

• Ways to comfort grieving animal family members

• How to know when you're ready to adopt another pet.

"I love it. I treasure it. The Andersons have left no question unposed, no conflict bypassed, no reflection unacknowledged."
--Susan Chernak McElroy, author of Animals as Teachers & Healers and Why Buffalo Dance