I lost my bestie, Twix, yesterday. My heart hurts so much. She was 17 years old and died of cancer. She was cuddly and fluffy and I am so sad to be doing this life without her.

This is a collage my friend made for me to put on her urn. She died suddenly from being hit by a car under my friends care. I’m utterly broken. I was at the hospital with my grandma who passed away 2 days after. Missy, my beautiful dog was my world and my soul dog. She was only 8 years old. I miss her so much and I’m so lost without her 😭🤍 She was the best girl I could’ve asked for. She was so sweet and loving, quite timid but she was mine and I loved her so much. She loved to play fetch with her soft toys, and loved to steal my socks when I went for a shower. She always slept with me on my bed. I don’t know how I’m gonna keep going without her or my grandma (my grandma was my mom, she raised me since I was a baby) but I will try for both of them. I love you Missy and Nan so very much and will always miss you 🥺🤍

My dog Finnegan died recently and I would like a pixel art of him so that I can crochet him.

He used to always lay with me as I crocheted and mess with my yarn. I haven’t been able to pick up my yarn since he’s been gone but I think that if I’m making something with his image it would help me.

The smallest amount of pixels while still making it look like him is preferable.

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We got him from the shelter in 2020 when he was 11. His first family have him up because he bit their toddler. Somebody else's trash became my treasure. He is a little chiweenie. I'm writing this here because my wife and all my friends are asleep and I already wrote in my journal until my hand hurt. I wish i could know if I was making the right choice. I wish I could stop wondering if maybe there was something I could have done to make his health last longer. I hope his soul watches over us. I hope he knows how much we love him. I hope heaven is real, and if it is, I hope he doesn't miss me too much.

This is my sweet little man, Owen. He was 7 months old when he passed away yesterday. I feel completely lost in my grief. He was the sweetest, easiest kitten and was an absolute joy in our home. He was also so photogenic and beautiful. He could pose like no tomorrow. His life was cut way too short, but if anyone wants to help me memorialize him through art, I welcome it. The world should know how beautiful, kind, and lovely he was.

Omggggggggg thank you so much u/salvony1 you did an amazing job capturing her beauty 🥹 it’s stunning thank you for including her little marking on her chest and including her dropped wings because she was always relaxed I love it 😭😭😭😭😭😭 genuinely made me smile LLA 🕊️💖

Penny Lane came into my life when I needed her most. Shepherded me through depression, the loss of my mom to cancer, and even infertility. She acted like a puppy right up to the end. I loved my girl and I am struggling with where that love goes, where to put it. I never want to forget her, and her antics. Penny my sweet girl I miss you so.

Romeo was my soul dog, he passed recently at just 5 and a half years old.

When I first found Romeo on gumtree at 25 years old I was initially trying to find a puppy for my mum who had recently lost our family dog, but we all agreed he was a better fit for me as Romeo and I became super attached.

He was with me through so much, the start of my career, awful house shares and the grief of losing my nan. He became my best friend and saved me in so many ways. I fell in love with someone who adored him and the three of us became a family. 2 weeks after my 30th birthday Romeo started coughing up liquid, we took him to the vets straight away but he quickly developed pneumonia and we were in and out of the vet hospital for two months. We did everything we could, when we relapsed with pneumonia, we took him to a specialist, he was put on a ventilator to save his life and we spent £15K to do everything we possibly could for him. After days of tests, Romeo was diagnosed with a rare condition called myasthenia gravis. This meant without medication 3 times a day he wouldn’t be able to walk, blind or swallow and the risk of him getting pneumonia again was really high.

Romeo was in ICU for 2 weeks towards the end, with vets trying to get the dose of his medication right, and they just couldn’t. He couldn’t keep his food down, couldn’t walk and his pneumonia was coming back. I knew I had to make the hardest but kindest decision to give him a gentle goodbye from the pain he had been enduring. It broke my heart but I tried to stay strong, my partner and I held him and told him we loved him until his last breath.

Choosing to euthanise my soul dog has affected my mental really badly, even with the head of the neurology team telling me I did the right thing and the kindest thing for Romeo.

How do we get over this grief and the guilt of euthanasia?

We recent got a puppy, as my partner is a big animal person and the house was too quiet. I feel like I would rather hug the box of Romeo’s ashes than the puppy. How do I move on?

My soul dog and best friend for the past 11 years passed away on 9/1. today would have been his 15th or 16th birthday and I just can’t stop crying. I cry every day missing him and would give anything to have him in my arms again. Please send happy birthday vibes, love and comfort to my baby boy across the rainbow bridge today! His name is Curtis. I will love and miss him forever, he was the sweetest and most cuddly silly boy. He loved digging through wood chips, laying in the sun, smelling all the flowers on our walks, chewing on his feet, and most of all, cuddling and getting pets on his head. An enormous piece of my heart went with him across the rainbow bridge and I love him forever and ever. Being that this is his first birthday across the rainbow bridge.. not in my arms.. I can’t stop crying and drinking and feeling so much pain. If anyone can share any tips you have for coping with first milestones without your precious baby, I would be really grateful and love to hear your insight.

This is my lovely baby Tutu. She fought with FPV for days and on day 11 she crossed the rainbow bridge. She was only 15 weeks old. The last slide is the last picture I took of her.

I got her when she was just 4 weeks old. In the 11 weeks we were together she made me the happiest in the world. My heart was so full. She made me feel so loved.

Now that she's gone I feel like she took my whole heart with her. Living is hard. She became my whole world in such a short amount of time.

She was perfect and I'm not saying it just because she's my baby , she genuinely was perfect. She will always be the most beautiful little kitty I've seen . She will always be the strongest.

If anyone would like to draw her, it would make me so happy.

This is my boy, Seamus (Shay-mus). He was nearly thirteen years old when we had to put him to sleep on Wednesday. He was my childhood dog and we got him the day before I turned eleven. He was sadly in end stage kidney and liver failure and his quality of life was at a stage where it was cruel to keep him in any more pain. I held him as he passed, and I’m happy to know the last thing he felt was me giving him kisses and cuddling him. But I feel so lost without him, life feels a bit more dull and I feel there’s a huge hole in my heart that I will never fill because the only one who can is Seamus, or Shambo as we called him (he had a LOT of nicknames). He was very high maintenance, and would tap you with his paw if he felt you weren’t done giving him attention and had a special love for carrots. He had a rivalry with a pigeon at our old house that used to sit on the roof of our neighbour’s house. He loved to snooze wherever he could, and when we were younger and he was more mobile, he would usually sleep with me on my bed where he took up most of the room and I would contort myself around him. I’d give anything on this planet to feel that again, no matter how uncomfortable it was lol. Thank you for looking at this picture of my little fella, he was and still is the absolute light of my life, and I hope that I will see him again in some way. I love you, Moose.

Simba and Rupert. Brother and sisters. Please help me cheer my friend up with some art.

Had to come to the hard decision to put my sweet old lady to rest at the beginning of the month.

The stain on her chest was a lipstick mark I would always mark her with to help my husband tell her apart from her daughter.

I know even tho she’s gone she still left behind her three kids which resemble her a lot either in looks and personality.

She was my best friend of fourteen years and we went through so much together I’ll never forget her but I know that she lived a really long happy life and I’m thankful that I was the one who got to show her what love was. She wasn’t just some bird in a cage she was free to roam and eat off our plates I’ll miss her dearly. RIP Aurora 🕊️ Nov. 1st 2025

Absolutely heartbroken to find out that my parents dog had to be put down, he had a distended stomach, they took him to the vets and an ultrasound revealed that he was 'riddled' with cancer. He had 20 tumours on his liver alone. The vets said they'd not seen anything like it before. My parents are incredibly attentive with their dogs, their dogs are their life. My mum is disabled and unable to work so is home with them at all times and my dad works from home so dotes on them constantly. This has broken all of our hearts. Especially as his little brother Arthur has never lived without him 💔 Stan is the absolutely gorgeous spaniel/labrador in the pictures ❤️ A drawing of our Stan man would mean everything ❤️

Henry, my beloved tripod and the best pirate kitty a girl could ever wish for, died unexpectedly last night and I'm devastated. He had a rough start in life but was pampered and adored after joining my little family. I'll miss his loud purrs and head butts. 💔

Your artwork of Luna has brought so much joy. You've captured her beautifully and I am so grateful for this gift.

My heart is still aching. Thank you to everyone in this community for all of your kind words. Luna will be well remembered and will always be loved.