Pets are the part of the family and they play a major role in our lives in making us feel complete. We love our pets and this love is mutual and never ending. So when they die, it becomes difficult to live without them. We can honor their memory by making some sort of memorial including pet memorial plaques. Although it is painful to live without the treasured pet, creating some memorial can bring some comfort and relief. It can be a reminder of your pet and help you relive some precious moments you have spent with your pet. There are several ways to design memorial for the pet so that you can always remember the happy days you both have lived together.
Ways to create pet memorials
- You can help out at rescue shelters or adopt the rescued dog as a tribute to your lost friend.
- One small yet precious gesture of keeping the memory of your dead pet alive is by creating a scrapbook. Assembling the pictures of the pet and adding story behind it could be one great idea behind making memorial for it.
- You can preserve the memory of the pet by keeping the collar or tag or the favorite toy with you. You can wear the charm bracelet or ring or keep some other objects on the desk with the name of the pet or engraved on it.
- Planting a tree or a flower plant in the memory of the pet could be one great thing to do.
- You can bury the pet in the pet cemetery or in your backyard and put pet memorial plaques or gravestone with some nice quotations. You can even put a garden stone with paw prints or other inscription to live on the memory of the pet.
Ideas on pet epitaph
A pet is not less than a friend or family but may be more than any human relation one can have. Their love is unconditional and with any selfishness. So when you lose a pet, the pain can be as much as losing a friend or family member. To save the memory of the beloved pet, many pet owners are creating plaque in the pet cemetery or the backyard. The pet memorial plaques can have the name of your pet with some text inscribed on it. It can serve as marker for the grave. You can choose anything to write on the plaque that can be the reminder of your greatest friend. The things that you want to write on the plaque should come out of the heart. A pet epitaph can have the following thing:
- You can put the name of your pet on the top. If you had some nickname for your beloved pet, you can add it onto the plaque. You can also add the date that has some importance like his/her birth date or the day you had brought it home or the death day.
- You can engrave the picture of your pet on the plaque. Any other symbol or drawing you want on the plaque can be engraved too like paw print, etc.
- You can add some quote that has the reference to the love between you and your pet. Any short poem can also be inscribed on the plaque if you want to. The text or poem that you want to write must be about your relationship with your pet. It should be true, straight from the heart and full of love. You can take the help of your friends or family or some book to find the right quote to be written on the epitaph.
