Animal Chaplaincy Services

Animal Chaplaincy Services can help you:

• Prepare for pet loss — offering guidance as you determine when it’s time to euthanize your beloved animal companion;

• Cope with the loss — helping you process the intense feelings of grief, sorrow, guilt, etc.*;

and/or

• Move on after pet loss — providing ways to memorialize and celebrate the life of your companion, bringing you necessary closure so you can open your heart and home to a new pet when the time is right.

We are not a substitute for professional therapy, if symptoms of depression are severe or do not abate within a few weeks’ time.

We offer the following services:

• Free online support and consultations — messages returned within 24 hours.
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• Free pet memorial posting at my blog. Submit desired text and a jpg photo of your pet to
the website provided. Celebrate new animal additions here, too!

• Accompanying you to your pet’s euthanasia appointment. Twin Cities area only — mileage reimbursement and free-will offering.

• Memorial ceremony planning assistance. This is free if online, mileage reimbursement and free-will offering if on-site. Twin Cities area only.

• Pet funerals — writing and performing a 15–20-minute funeral service on-site. (Cost: Flat rate plus mileage reimbursement. Twin Cities area only.)

• Group animal blessings and/or motivational speaking (topics such as “Pet Loss—Receiving the Gifts Only Grief Can Give.”) Sliding fee for talks 20–90 minutes in length, plus travel expenses.

Reverend Sid Korpi is a nonsectarian animal chaplain, minister and wedding officiant. She is a motivational speaker and the author of the award-winning book "Good Grief: Finding Peace After Pet Loss—Personal and Professional Insights on the Animal Lover’s Unique Grieving Process."

Sid Korpi lives in Minneapolis with her husband Anthony Kaczor and seven much-adored animal family members: Blanche, Keely and Ambrose (Westies); Giles and Xander (cats); and Atticus and Scout (finches).

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