About PetTribute
For the ones who knew them best.
PetTribute was built for a simple reason: when a beloved pet dies, the grief is real — and for many people, there's nowhere to take it.
Friends mean well but move on quickly. The world doesn't pause. And for some people — those whose pet was their closest daily companion, their morning routine, their reason to come home — there is no funeral, no gathering, no shared ritual that says this mattered.
PetTribute is that space.
We help you find the right words for a tribute that says who they really were — not a generic template, but something personal, specific, and true to the companion you knew. Whether you share it with everyone who loved them or keep it entirely to yourself, this is a place where their memory is held with care.
How it works
You tell us about your pet — their name, their personality, your favourite memory, what you'll miss most. We use those details to help you write a tribute that captures who they were. You can edit it, share it, or simply keep it as something to return to.
In time, PetTribute will offer permanent memorial pages, a growing memorial garden, and a quiet community of people who understand what pet loss feels like. For now, we start with the words.
Our promise
PetTribute will never treat pet grief as lesser grief. We will never use dark patterns or pressure you into anything. Your tributes, your memories, and your feelings are treated with the respect they deserve. Always.
How PetTribute began
I go by Kit. I built PetTribute because I needed it.
In July 2025, I lost Pixie — a lovebird who had been at the centre of my daily life for eighteen years. From the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep, Pixie was there. Every holiday, every ordinary Tuesday, every quiet morning. When that was gone overnight, I didn't know what to do with the silence.
I didn't have many people around me who understood. Pet loss can be a lonely kind of grief — the world expects you to move on quickly, and for many people, there's no ritual, no gathering, no moment where someone says this was a real loss and it mattered. I found a little comfort in strangers on the internet, sharing their own grief in the small hours. But nothing felt made for this.
I started writing. Not for anyone — just to process. Putting words to who Pixie was, what those eighteen years felt like, what I was going to miss. And I noticed that the act of writing itself did something. It felt like a small ritual. A goodbye. Something released into the universe, witnessed — even if only by me.
That's what I wanted PetTribute to be. Not a cure, not a replacement for the people and support that help us heal — but a first step. A space where you can say who they were — and have it witnessed by everyone who loved them, or by no one but yourself. Either way, it counts.
I don't know if it will help everyone. But I hope that when you leave this site, you feel — even a little — that your loss mattered. That your pet mattered. That you are not alone in this.
— Kit Faro, founder