Dead Pets: A Podcast About Pet Grief
Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
Athena tells us about a very special boy named Precious Roy. Thank you to our partners at TailChapter! Sign up for the newsletter at…
Elise WildHost
[gentle music] Welcome to Dead Pets, the podcast about pet grief that celebrates the lives of the creatures who have changed ours.
If you enjoy Dead Pets, if it's touched something in your heart, please like, subscribe, and share.
It's a really small thing you can do that means everything to me and will help Dead Pets keep growing.
This is fulfilling to me in a way that nothing has ever been, and I'm a journalist, a writer.
I love my work, but talking to people about their pets that have died who they still love so much has been life-changing for me.
Hearing from people that the podcast has touched them, has made their grief lighter, and has made the memories of their pets less painful is so cool and so, so special to me.
There you can find pictures and videos of pets featured in each episode, and Dead Pets now has a newsletter.
After every episode is recorded, edited, and published, for me, the story keeps going.
Every interview prompts these new feelings, friendships, and epiphanies about our lives with our pets and what comes after.
The newsletter is published once a month, and I share reflections and thoughts from each episode, my own grief journey from losing Dodge, my precious cat who was with me for 20 years, adventures of letting myself fall in love with a new kitten, news about the podcast, book reviews, other resources about pet grief, and I also include a roundup of fun pet news from around the internet, 'cause who doesn't want that? If that sounds like something your heart needs, you can subscribe at www.deadpetspodcast.com.
Read the full transcript.
Create an account to read the whole episode, search across every transcript, and follow the shows you care about.
[gentle music] Welcome to Dead Pets, the podcast about pet grief that celebrates the lives of the creatures who have changed ours.
If you enjoy Dead Pets, if it's touched something in your heart, please like, subscribe, and share.
It's a really small thing you can do that means everything to me and will help Dead Pets keep growing.
This is fulfilling to me in a way that nothing has ever been, and I'm a journalist, a writer.
I love my work, but talking to people about their pets that have died who they still love so much has been life-changing for me.
Hearing from people that the podcast has touched them, has made their grief lighter, and has made the memories of their pets less painful is so cool and so, so special to me.
There you can find pictures and videos of pets featured in each episode, and Dead Pets now has a newsletter.
After every episode is recorded, edited, and published, for me, the story keeps going.
Every interview prompts these new feelings, friendships, and epiphanies about our lives with our pets and what comes after.
The newsletter is published once a month, and I share reflections and thoughts from each episode, my own grief journey from losing Dodge, my precious cat who was with me for 20 years, adventures of letting myself fall in love with a new kitten, news about the podcast, book reviews, other resources about pet grief, and I also include a roundup of fun pet news from around the internet, 'cause who doesn't want that? If that sounds like something your heart needs, you can subscribe at www.deadpetspodcast.com.
