Posted 25th Dec 2008
Press Association
More than 1,000 people have joined a new internet tribute site to create memorials for dead pets.
The website allows owners to create their own page for a pet, including music, photographs and "virtual gifts".
GoneTooSoon.org is normally associated with tributes to humans, but turned its attention to the animal kingdom after requests from users.
Site creator Terry George said: "I know from personal experience that losing a pet can be a very traumatic experience. My dogs are such an important part of my life. When I lost two of them last year I was devastated, and the loss was very difficult to bear. It's so nice to be able to create an everlasting memorial to them now."
The company said there were already 1,300 memorials to pets on the site, including tributes to fish and hamsters as well as dogs and cats.
Pages on Pets.GoneTooSoon.org are free to create but "virtual gifts" must be paid for.
Tribute sites are one of a number of unusual ways for bereaved owners to remember a pet.
Jeanette Hall, a taxidermist from Nevada in the United States, makes pillows and cushions from the animals' bodies. The products have the pet's fur on one side and owner's choice of fabric on the other.
And as a hobby, Pam Gardner, of Milton Keynes, Northants spins dog and cat fur into wool so owners can make clothes with the material.
In March this year, Beth and Brian Willis from Newcastle had their dead dogs' fur made into two jumpers as a novel way to remember their pets.
More than 1,000 people have joined a new internet tribute site to create memorials for dead pets.
The website allows owners to create their own page for a pet, including music, photographs and "virtual gifts".
GoneTooSoon.org is normally associated with tributes to humans, but turned its attention to the animal kingdom after requests from users.
Site creator Terry George said: "I know from personal experience that losing a pet can be a very traumatic experience. My dogs are such an important part of my life. When I lost two of them last year I was devastated, and the loss was very difficult to bear. It's so nice to be able to create an everlasting memorial to them now."
The company said there were already 1,300 memorials to pets on the site, including tributes to fish and hamsters as well as dogs and cats.
Pages on Pets.GoneTooSoon.org are free to create but "virtual gifts" must be paid for.
Tribute sites are one of a number of unusual ways for bereaved owners to remember a pet.
Jeanette Hall, a taxidermist from Nevada in the United States, makes pillows and cushions from the animals' bodies. The products have the pet's fur on one side and owner's choice of fabric on the other.
And as a hobby, Pam Gardner, of Milton Keynes, Northants spins dog and cat fur into wool so owners can make clothes with the material.
In March this year, Beth and Brian Willis from Newcastle had their dead dogs' fur made into two jumpers as a novel way to remember their pets.
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