Honoring Our Fur Babies and Friends with Public Art and Giving

Real Stories
Written By Pamela Ann Noxon

There are many ways to honor the loss of a Loved One, and everything they meant to you in life. You shared your ups [the mountain], your downs, your hard times, and your heartbreak with your sweet fur baby or soul pet. You gave, and received the most unconditional love you may ever have in life. I love public memorials to anyone, but especially to our beloved pets. A perfect example is this gorgeous totem pole in San Marcos, California, covered with the collars and tags of many very good boys and girls - this monument to unconditional love, and really really good days of walksies, stands at the top of a steep trail traversed by hundreds of people a year and many many good dogs.

At Mourning Goods with every product order we donate to your choice of a variety of charities. If you want to do something special in honor of your good dog consider donating to one of the animal-related charities we support:

FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION

Frosted Faces Foundation develops solutions to ensure all of the senior animals that cross our path have a family and proper veterinary care.  We rescue senior animals and rehome them, we offer financial assistance to senior pet owners, and we board senior dogs at an inexpensive rate while providing specialized care.

15/10 FOUNDATION

The 15/10 Foundation (you may be familiar with Matt Nelson creator of We Rate Dogs) sponsors shelter dogs with medical needs, removing their financial hindrances to adoption and expediting their happily ever after. The Foundation fills a void in the animal welfare world by sponsoring dogs with behavioral or medical issues unlikely to ever make it out of the shelter.

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY

With a motto of “We will reach no-kill in this country by 2025.” you know they care! Best Friends, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, that operates the nation’s largest sanctuary for homeless animals and provides adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs.

Photos by the lovely Ruth Whitehawk Gonzalez.

Pamela Ann Noxon

Author, trauma-informed Holistic Grief Educator, Grief Coaching Mentor & Trainer, Inspirational Speaker & Workshop leader, Pamela Ann Noxon offers compassionate and creative ways to help those in loss heal with their grief and stay connected to their loved ones.

After decades of study in trauma, grief, holistic health and wellness, and numerous losses that included her mother, father, close family, dear friends, close colleagues, and beloved pets, she has created a unique protocol, combining the latest grief coaching techniques, with hypnotherapy, art therapy, breathing work, movement therapies, and a deep connection to nature and animals; to create a profound and revolutionary, truly holistic method of helping people navigate their grief well. Her main goal: to train others to be of compassionate, conscious service to those in loss and grief.

Pamela is the force behind all that Mourning Goods brings to our time: purposefully designed condolence products, interactive creative journals, holistic grief books, grief podcasts, coaching, workshops, and programs for the grieving, and support and certification courses for new grief coaches.

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