Reflections on grief, the aftercare process, and the small rituals that help — written with care for pet owners and the clinics who walk beside them.
For many Kiwi children, losing a pet is their first real experience of death. This is a practical, age-banded guide to helping them through it — at home and in the consult room.
Grief in a New Zealand summer doesn't look like the snowy, fireside grief of the books we grew up reading. Here's a gentle guide to the BBQs, baches, beaches and Matariki nights — and how to carry your pet through them.
If you're sitting with the question 'is it time?' — these are the ten regrets we hear most often from NZ families afterwards, and the small choices made in advance that prevent them. Part 1 of 2.
Part 2 of our regrets guide — the decisions made on the day and in the weeks after, and how NZ vet clinics and aftercare services can help families avoid them.