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Pals refers to pets as animals, loved ones, companions, best friends, family members, and soulmates. This platform offers gentle, grounded support for those experiencing the painful grief of losing a beloved animal companion. In honoring the sensitivity of each person’s emotions, pals keeps heavy memorials and triggering imagery to a minimum. Our goal is to maintain a peaceful on-line resource where compassionate guidance and healing support is serene and self-paced.

podcast & social media roll out soon.

Dear Pal: A Note About Our Grassroots Mission

Founder Lisa’s agonizing loss of her soulmate dog Tickles in 2024, and her inability to find reliable, consistent support for animal loss grief, led her into a year of deep healing through trauma therapy, self-expression in writing, mission-based vision, and the creation of this genuine, heartfelt platform. Every piece of comfort you find, and every word that resonates here, flows from Lisa's broken heart and disbelief that there was nowhere to turn for reliable support. She followed a calling to help fellow animal parents going through this life-changing experience, because before PALS, there wasn’t a sanctuary offering an entire ecosystem of support for people like us.

Lisa does not come from the corporate world, and PALS is not another tech start-up. It is a healing portal that arose from a legacy of love, woven with care by a single founder (who, at times, didn’t feel she could even finish Pals due to the difficulty of her loss) along with a tiny grassroots group of caring animal parents, and a handful of professional collaborators, all with deep consideration for the animals who love their humans and would want to see them find a soft place to land after they transition to Spirit.

Therefore, we ask for respect for the originality, vulnerability, and spiritual intention that continues to shape this work.

Photo credit on our welcome page: Patrick Hendry.

PALS™ (Processing Animal Loss Supportively) is the official trademark of PALS LLC, protected under multiple international and US classifications as of 2024.
All content and materials on this website, including, but not limited to, written works, guide structures and frameworks, thematic organization, logo designs, brand architecture, schematics, visuals, trade dress, UI/UX components, unique form-based Q&A, signature merchandise, podcast concepts, recordings and sequencing, and proprietary digital processes, are the exclusive intellectual property of PALS LLC.
This includes the federally published and copyrighted 2024 original written works PREPARE, HEAL, BOND, HOLIDAY, ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY, CONNECT, and PALS KIDS, and PALS SENIORS, all of which are part of the official PALS™ platform.
All tools, features, and content currently in development, including thoughtfully-designed digital support systems and companion experiences, interactive technologies, and PALS™ patent-pending SaaS software, are similarly protected under U.S. copyright and patent laws.
Any imitation, reverse engineering, or misappropriation of the PALS platform, including its educational guides structure, digital user experience, original brand language, or community organization features, is strictly prohibited and subject to legal action under applicable intellectual property laws. PALS LLC monitors for infringement, including derivative works and lookalike services.