A Guide To Rembrance After Pet Loss | Exclusive Etsy Discount Code!!! | EverelleCraft Collaboration

“Tears don’t measure weakness. They measure our need to grieve and keep loving the one we’ve lost.”

Melvina Young

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After losing my eight-month-old bunny; Evie on May 22^nd I found a bracelet on Etsy from the store; EverelleCrafts. I added ten charms all together with five each having the name of the pets I’ve lost these past eight years (Dolly, Pixie, Emmy, Gracie, and Evie) and the other five were the birthstones for each of them! When it arrived, I was absolutely over the moon with the quality and the final result of my customisation, and I actually shed a little tear when I saw all their names! I loved the bracelet so much that I actually got in touch with the store owner and after a chat, they offered a discount code exclusive to my readers/followers and I customised and ordered another three bracelets with one for each of the pets I have now (Luna, Ruby, and Tillie)! To share the discount code, and publicise the Etsy store, I put this blog post together where I’m going to chat about remembrance after losing a pet with a bit about the benefits of it, ideas for all sorts of memorials and methods of remembrance, and also some details on the Gracie's Way resource that is super fitting and useful for this topic…

Old Memories with A New Pet

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

Albert Camus

Several nights ago, I randomly decided to film a cute little cuddling moment with the newest addition to the family; my lop-eared, Double Manned Mini Lionhead; Tillie. Whilst my rabbits are very loving, I’ve never had one that’s really brilliant and who thoroughly enjoys being handled, so I really want to handle Tillie as much as possible whilst she’s young so that hopefully she’ll become used to it and will start to enjoy it. The breeder I got her from, actually summed her up as being ‘nervous but affectionate’ and in trying to handle her, I’m seeing that too – she can be nervous when you walk in the room or reach out to her, but once she’s in my arms; she’ll snuggle in under my chin and she’ll make the teeth chattering sound that’s the rabbit equivalent of a cat purring. Anyway, not long after I started filming this cuddle, I found myself flooded with the realisation that I was only holding Tillie because Evie had died. I wouldn’t have Tillie if she hadn’t. And this immediately led to some really difficult, confusing, and often conflicting thoughts and feelings, and I started crying. I was in two minds about still posting the video on the Gracie’s Way Instagram (@GraciesWayUK) because it obviously wasn’t what I’d intended, and I worried people would question my motives in posting a video of basically me crying! But I decided to use it as inspiration to publicise the message that even if you get a new pet after losing one, it doesn’t meant the other is forgotten or that you have just ‘moved on.’ So, to see the video, visit the Instagram profile linked just earlier when I mentioned it, and I hope this post is reassuring and educational…

A Complete Guide to Collecting Their Ashes

“The courage to continue is the most precious kind of bravery.”

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On Wednesday 3^rd June, I was in a taxi on the way to the Train Station to travel to London for two days for an event with Waythrough when my phone rang and I saw ‘Vets’ lighting up the screen. I knew what it was because at the Veterinary Practice I use for all my pets, they pick up and drop off a pet’s ashes on a Wednesday, it usually takes around one or two weeks to get them back, and they had taken my Evie the previous Wednesday. I answered with “if this is what I think it is, please can you ring me when I come back on Friday?” They agreed and I swallowed back my tears so as not to be embarrassed and awkward with my driver! I’ve had so many speeches and events recently that I couldn’t collect Evie until Wednesday 10^th. I felt terrible leaving ‘her’ in the Vets that long, but I also tried to remind myself that I was doing the best I could. I did something lovely all day Wednesday with my family and then they took me to collect Evie. I asked them to wait in the car whilst I went in and got her and the care the Vet staff went to in handling her and handing her over to me, made me so emotional and it was truly heart-warming and comforting to think that’s how she’d been treated the entire time she’d been there. In the car coming home, I cried and had the idea to film it as a way of showing the reality of collecting a pet’s ashes, and it was this which has inspired this article…