http://www.petsatpeace.ca/
http://www.thistledown.info/links.htm

Ancaster Pet Cemetery
588 Book Road East
Ancaster, Ontario
905-648-6238

Compassion for Pets
1890 York Road
Niagara On The Lake
905-262-0202

Havelberg Pet Cemetery
RR1
Orono, Ontario
905-983-5016

Sandy Ridge Pet Cemetery
RR1
Eden, Ontario
519-866-3243

Gateway Pet Memorial Services
180 Southgate Drive 3, Guelph, N1G 4P5
(519) 822-8858

Humane Society Kitchener-Waterloo
250 Riverbend Drive, Kitchener, N2B 2E9
(519) 745-5615

Humane Society Welland
60 Provincial, Welland, L3B 5W7
(905) 735-1552

Lakeview Haven Pet Cemetery
RR 4, Brockville, K6V 5T4
(613) 657-3521

London Humane Society
624 Clarke Road, London, N5V1A1
(519) 451-0630

Silent Friends Pet Memorial Gardens
101 Tiny Beaches Road South, Elmvale, L0L 1P0
(705) 361-2766

http://www.midland.ontariospca.ca (Provide Burial Services)

http://www.torontopetheaven.com/

http://www.vipsitters.com/services_cremation.html

Resources:
Pet Loss Support Helpline
http://www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/petloss/

Contact Bay Gardens at 905-574-0405 to find out more information about pet companion bereavement groups.

For many people, the loss of a beloved pet can be a traumatic experience. We invite you to download the brochure “Ten Tips on Coping with The Loss of Your Pet,” for answers to questions you may have about the grieving process.

Simply contemplating the difficult decision to put an aged, injured or terminally ill pet to sleep can be upsetting as well.

If your pet can no longer enjoy a quality life, due to pain and illness, putting your pet to sleep may be the most loving choice you can make.

Experts recommend that you share your concerns with your vet, as well as your family (with the exception of very young children). In most cases, you and your family don’t need to make a decision immediately, so take time to consider your veterinarian’s advice about other medical options.

Remember: putting your pet to sleep involves an injection by your vet, which is quick and completely painless.

Consider spending quality time with your pet as a way to say goodbye, either at home or at the animal hospital. Saying goodbye to your pet is an important part of the grieving and healing process.

You may also find it helpful to take part grief and bereavement support groups and activities. For example, a weekly national Candle Ceremony gives you the opportunity to remember your pet, along with others who are suffering the same kind of loss. On Monday evenings all across the globe, people light candles to honor their pets. It is a very healing ritual with no adherence to any religion or creed, just a simple lighting of candles to bring us all together.

We have provided a Pet Memorial area on this site, where your child can light a candle for their pet and share a picture of their beloved friend if they wish.

All of the tribute pets are honored as well as special needs pets and abused and neglected animals.
 

How does the ceremony work? A History of the Candle Ceremony

By Marion Hale & edited by Laura Markey
Copyright © Best Friends Magazine.

The Candle Ceremony began on the Prodigy Service, the Dogs Bulletin Board, All pets to Heaven subject. By coincidence...or fate, a small group of newcomers was drawn to that board during the first months of 1993 to share their grief and fear, and to offer comfort and advice to one another.

Lisa Singer, one of that group, said she lit candles on Monday nights and offered to add the names of our pets to her list. Others said they'd like to light candles at the same time. A time was set, a format and non-sectarian prayer were written, and the first Bridge List went up on March 15, 1993.

By the start of Spring, the Candle Ceremony had spread to other online services. In just two weeks, the candle memorial was international. Notes came in from as far away as Japan! The continuing legacy of our pets' unconditional love had united people worldwide. It was a miracle.

The light of the candles still attracts others, the newly bereaved or those remembering beloved pets of long ago. They come to place the names of their companion pets, and many stay, healing themselves as they comfort others. Others return to the board from time to time with stories and memories of happier times with their pets, and remark how much the Candle Ceremony eased their grieving process.

When a human loved one dies a prescribed ritual provides a cushion between the loss and the return to "normal" life. When the loved one is a companion pet society provides no means of closure. For many of us the Candle Ceremony has brought peace, acceptance and the hope of eternal reunion someday in that place "just this side of Heaven" we call Rainbow Bridge.

WE GATHER TOGETHER TO HONOR AND REMEMBER OUR PETS

Tonight, Monday, we join hands, hearts and souls across the land as one large extended family to pray for our sick and dying pets and to pay tribute to our loved ones who have gone ahead to Rainbow Bridge. Someday, we will meet them again, with hugs, tears and kisses, as we walk together, in eternity, to our new home. Until that blessed day, we honor these precious souls and remember them with the warm glow of flickering candles, sending a message of love, light and healing, and the faith to believe in miracles.

PRAYER: God, Creator of all living things, we ask that as we light our candles, the healing warmth of love will flow into the brokenhearted who are tending their ailing pets. Give to them Your strength and comfort. We also pray that the soft glow of light will part the clouds of grief and sorrow to surround our companions at the Bridge.

May excitement REIGN SUPREME as wagging tails, ecstatic purrs and flapping feathers feel our gentle touch once again. May they know the gratitude we hold in our hearts for their faithfulness and gift of unconditional love as they are forever remembered. We are temporarily separated for only a short while.

The silver cord that connects us through time and space can never be broken.
AMEN.

CANDLE 1: PERSONAL Companion Pet. Anything you wish to say.
I will not look back for there is sorrow.
I will not look for today for there is longing.
I will look forward for there is OUR tomorrow.

CANDLE 2: Companion Pets OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Read the names of those who are ill or have gone on before us as a tribute to them and their loving parents.

CANDLE 3: FOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND PEACE
In honor of all the homeless, forgotten, abandoned, abused animals.
For the nameless animals who gave their lives for others, for research and as a result of humankind's inhumanity.
May the Higher Powers that be forgive the cruelty.
We light this candle for them.
As our lights shine brightly through the galaxy, may the angels smile upon us, and know that for a brief moment, we have put aside worldly differences to bond as ONE.

CLOSING: I have sent you on a journey to a land free from pain, not because I did not love you, but because I loved you too much to force you to stay.

MOMENT OF SILENCE:
"Blessed are they that mourn, for they will be comforted."

Love, light and healing to all. Amen.

The candles being lit tonight;
Cast a soft and welcome flame.
And draw our loved ones to the light,
As we call to them by name.
Imagine spirits taking flight,
For a moment our souls entwine.
Say not Good Night, but in some
Brighter Time
Bid them all-
Good Morning

Online Monday Night Pet Ceremony
http://www.rainbowbridge.com/

Significant Dates:
October 4^th is world animal day
http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/

June 8th -  World Pet Memorial Day Canada  "A Celebration of Life and Love"  

"A Celebration of Life and Love" 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. at High Park, Picnic Area (beside Jamie Bell Adventure playground). Join us to remember and celebrate our departed companion pets.

For more information visit http://www.worldpetmemorialdaycanada.com

In the second week of June annually, pet owners and advocates from around the world collaborate to remember the furry, feathered and scaly; to remember the ways our pets made us laugh, the way they helped to dry our tears and the way they worked their ways into our hearts for the rest of our lives.

This group helps raise awareness of World Pet Memorial Day in a safe and respectful manner, planning an event where judgment is lost and concretizing our memories is priority, no matter what.

FACEBOOK PAGE:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8366927886