It’s impossible to name all the ways pets touch our lives. Even the term ‘pet’ as it’s defined in most dictionaries seems too unremarkable a word to fully capture the relationship that many of us have with our fur babies. Pets, in many regards, come to know us in the most genuine sense. They see all we are behind the scenes of life, when the doors are closed and the shades drawn. But how do we navigate the tide of grief that comes when our time together inevitably ends?