Animals are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
~ Roger Caras
Resources you may find helpful
Depending on your individual situation, the support you may be needing, or questions that may be outside the general areas of knowledge, these resources may provide additional help to you and your animal.
Specialist Support and Emergency Care
Our All Your Heart Vet Services team is not able to provide urgent care or emergency care, nor is Dr. Kayleigh a specialist veterinarian. Please seek support through the 24 hour veterinary facilities in Edmonton, and the specialist facilities available.
Specialist Support available (often a referral from your regular veterinarian will be needed)
Pulse Veterinary Specialists and Emergency
VCA Canadian Guardian Veterinary Centre
24 hour emergency care
Boreal Vet, North Edmonton *24hr Sat, Sun+Mon (780) 306-4400
Pulse Vet, Sherwood Park (780) 570-999
Guardian VCA, Central/South Edmonton (780) 436-5880
Vet ER, North Edmonton (825) 480-4881
Kali’s Wish Cancer Foundation
This foundation, established in memory of Kali, provides incredible resources and help for families facing devastating news, including chat networks with families just like you that are going through this or have faced it, resources and information from familiies having already faced it, and even recommended specialty types/specialists to seek.
See if they can help provide support to you.
How to “know” when it’s time to say goodbye
No one can predict the future, we can only guess what the best course of action may be at any given time, and do our best to make decisions out of love and kindness.
Let expert created resources help to provide guidance, to help critically reflect on your unique situation. These resources also provide information on common health changes or behaviours you may see, their significance, and help determining if it may be time.
Talking about the changes you’re seeing with a veterinarian, especially with your regular veterinarian who knows your animal well, can greatly help provide you with more specific and indivudal guidance. A veterinary assessment can help detect early or subtle changes, as well as provide the most accurate information around the significance of the changes, the affects these changes may have on your pet’s health or comfort, and may be able to provide alternative therapies to help support your pet and increase comfort, or provide support and guidance on next steps.
We hope these resources for objectively assessing your animal’s health changes may help.
Grief support is available - it is normal to grieve your furry, feathered, scaled or hooved family member.
Losing your companion is devastating, whatever the physical form they take. There are many resources available to help, whether it’s through books, information, call support networks or therapists. Don’t mask the grief, finds ways to help keep moving forward each day, while still keeping them close in your heart and treasuring the life you’ve spent together.
Grief Support Books (recommended by Pet Owners who’ve grieved):
Jack McAfghan: Reflections on Life with my Master
Jack McAfghan: Letters From Rainbow Bridge
The Heaven of Animals
The Invisible Leash
The Grief Recovery Handboof for Pet Loss
Bearing the Unbearable
Specialty Pet Grief Counselling Services
Alisha Sabourin
www.alishasabourin.com Registered Psychologist (AB) Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
(780) 995-7011 alisha.sabourin@gmail.com
Lyndell Drever
Sacred Hearts Pet Grief Support Registered Social Worker
(780) 608-6337 lyndell@dreverag.com