Your pet is your special friend and cherished companion. Dealing with their loss or impending loss can prove painful beyond imagining. B. J. Shonk has been there, and she's ready to help guide you through the grieving process with wisdom, compassion, and insight. Missing Pieces...Broken Heart provides much-needed tools and support to promote healing after the death, disappearance, or impending loss of a beloved pet. An accessible, powerful resource for everyone, especially devastated pet owners, and a valuable aid for veterinary professionals and animal caregivers alike, this book offers advice on how to - Understand universally loss is loss, whether a pet or a person - it all hurts - Acknowledge, experience, better understand, and not bury your grief - Comprehend and navigate the euthanasia process before and after - Support your children, and console remaining family pets through the tragedy - Better understand Quality of Life and End of Life decisions - Advocate for your pet, and partner with your vet - Address compassion fatigue and much more Whether your pet had fur, fins, feathers, or scales-if they brightened your life for many years or left much too early-Missing Pieces...Broken Heart will help you say your final goodbyes and positively progress through grief to recovery, as you preserve and embrace their memories to mend your broken heart.
The book is designed as a quick reference manual for curriculum-related disability issues.
Illustrations provide humorous interpretations of the actions of animals from one frog to twelve whales.
With the help of a spider, a moth, and two ladybug friends, a young butterfly tries to uncover the mystery involving a gossamer-winged butterfly with whom he has fallen in love.
In this adaptation of the traditional French and Latin American song, animals play in the forest while a scary wolf slowly dresses and becomes hungrier and hungrier.
Hardworking Hippo worries about his free-spending friend, Potto the elephant, who lives at Christmas Cottage with Hippo and Mouse.
Forgetful Willie Woof asks a cow, a pig, a sheep, and another dog what he is supposed to say when he sees a bird.
The Ring of Sacred Volcanoes has been destroyed and Faolan is leading his small band of wolves across the ice bridge to the hoped for safety of the Distant Blue--but his old enemy Heep is pursuing him and the icy path ahead is filled with ...
When a terrible danger threatens the wolves of the Beyond, outsider Faolan must take a leadership role and inspire the pack to stand together.
This book looks inside human and animal bodies to see the shape of different bones and discover how they have evolved in different ways to help each animal survive, from a bird's light bones full of air spaces to help them fly to crocodile ...
"Little Mouse should be in bed, but he's off playing" Mummy said.