Today we are proud to announce the winners of our Christmas Pet Photo Contest. As always, we are dedicated to providing our furry friends a pet protection supplemental benefit with every owner’s preneed insurance policy.
In this Facebook contest, pet parents submitted their favorite photos of a best-dressed or best-decorated pet in a Christmas theme.
Click below to find out who won!
The healings begins after losing a pet.
What happens when our beloved pet dies? Are our friends, family and co-workers equally as accepting? And for that matter, are we accepting of our own grief – or do we simply try to function “on top” of the feelings?
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Loss, and the resulting heartache,
is a part of life.
And usually we’re faced with doing the best we can to manage the sorrow left behind, and carry on with our day-to-day responsibilities. Yet, at such a time, we are hampered by unrecognized, unacknowledged, and untended symptoms of grief.
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Many physical items hold our memories and we treasure them not for themselves, but for what they inspire us to remember.
Much the way photos moves us, sometimes to tears, often to hysterical laughing, those clothes, that hair! These keepsakes can be anything from cards, photos, a ratty chewed up slipper a beloved pet commandeered.
Today, I came across a card from my mother. It was the last card she ever gave me and there it was – her signature, once bold, in perfect cursive, now faint and slightly shaky as the ravages of ALS sets in, “To My Sweetheart” on the envelope.
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