We make one thing, and we try to make it properly: a poem about your pet, written from the things only you remember, framed beside their photo.
Still Beside Me makes personalized pet memorial gifts. You share the specific memories only you have of your pet. A custom poem is written from those memories and printed beside their photo, with their name and the years you shared set into the artwork, in a frame you choose. It is made for two people: the owner grieving a dog, cat, or other companion, and the friend who wants to send something that outlasts flowers. Four sizes, $79 to $249, free US shipping. You see your finished proof before you pay, and after you approve it the framed piece typically arrives in 8 to 12 business days.
When I lost Littles – my Siamese, my shadow, the one who followed me from room to room and yelled at me until I picked him up – people sent flowers. They sent cards. Every single one was gone within a week. Not because they didn't care, but because there was nothing to keep.
I wanted something that captured who he actually was. Not just his face, but the weird little voice he made when he wanted dinner. The way he'd curl up on my chest every single night. The nickname only we used. The specific, irreplaceable things that made him ours.
I couldn't find it anywhere. So I built it.
– Rebecca, founder of Still Beside Me
Most pet memorial products put a name on something that already existed. The mug, the ornament, the engraved stone – the object was made first, and your pet's name was added at the end. It could be anyone's pet.
We start at the other end. The tribute begins with details nobody but you would know: the chair they claimed, the sound they made when they heard your car, the walk they demanded at the same hour every day. The poem is written from those details, so it could only be about your animal. You can read exactly how that works, with real examples, on the writing page.
Then a real person reviews it. Every proof is checked by human eyes before it goes to the printer, and nothing is printed until you have read the words and said yes.
A few things we would rather say plainly than have you discover later.
This takes longer than most gifts. You see the finished proof before you pay, with nothing to wait for, but the piece itself takes 8 to 12 business days after you approve it, because it is printed and framed to order. If you are sending it as a sympathy gift, that timing is deliberate – flowers arrive in the first 48 hours when the house is full of people, and this arrives after, when it has gone quiet.
The reviews we publish are real words from real families, published exactly as they were written – nothing invented, nothing edited. What we can promise is on the page above and in our refund policy: a full refund any time before it goes to print, and a free replacement if it ever arrives damaged.
Not everyone who arrives here is ready to order something, and some never will be. These are free, need no account, and exist because they were useful to us first:
The pet memorial poem generator writes a personalized poem from your memories in a few seconds. The sympathy message helper is for when someone you know has lost a pet and you have no idea what to type. And the Rainbow Bridge poem page has the full text, a free printable version, and the true story of who actually wrote it.