Small Goodbyes
For the dog · the cat · the household

Dog memorial

For the dog who followed you through the years.

A considered memorial for a dog — a painted-style canvas, a written eulogy, and a tribute page. From one photo and a handful of stories. £99.

Painted portrait of a Labrador — sample canvas

Dogs leave a particular kind of silence when they go. They were always somewhere in the house — by the door when you came home, at your feet during supper, two steps behind you up the stairs. A dog memorial isn't about closure. It's about keeping that shape of them somewhere you can reach for.

What's in the bundle

  • Canvas portrait — 30 × 40cm matte canvas, painted-style from your photo. 19th-century portrait style, warm earth tones, printed locally.
  • Written eulogy — three drafts in different registers, so you can pick the one that sounds like you. Read one at a ceremony, keep one in a drawer.
  • Tribute page — hosted for a year, shareable with family. Private by passcode if you want it family-only.

£99 for all three. Individual prices would total £133. We bundle because most people want all three, and bundling lowers the price.

What makes a dog memorial work

The specific details are what carry it. Not "he was a good boy" but "he used to line up the slippers by the back door like he was trying to tell me something". Not "she loved walks" but "the exact patch of sun she claimed at two in the afternoon". Our intake asks for those kinds of details — five short prompts, skip whichever don't land.

The written eulogy and tribute narrative are built around what you share. They won't sound like a generic pet obituary because they aren't one.

Any breed, any age, any story

We've made memorials for old Labradors, young whippets cut short, rescues whose histories you only half knew, working collies, family mongrels, show dogs. Any breed, any age. The canvas adapts to what you send.

For a gift

You can commission a dog memorial for someone else — a parent, a friend, a partner. Enter their details in the intake, ship to their address. The canvas arrives unbranded. A simple, considered way to say: I saw what you lost.

How delivery works

Eulogy and tribute page arrive within a day. The canvas takes 3-7 working days to print and ship in the UK. We also ship internationally — Ireland, the EU, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan — and delivery varies by country, shown before you pay.

And for the wider household

Three add-ons people often ask about after the Essential: a framed canvas instead of the slim-stretcher version (from £109, ready to hang); a hardcover Memoir photobook of your photographs and stories (£79, 28 pages, printed once for your family); and a pack of sympathy cards to send to the vet, the dog-walker, and family who knew them (£29). The Keepsake bundle at £219 packages all of those together with the Essential.

How the canvas looks

Any breed, one steady style.

Painted portrait of a chocolate Labrador
Chocolate Labrador
Painted portrait of a golden retriever
Golden Retriever
Painted portrait of a jack russell terrier
Jack Russell