| Now that the Internet is here, an online pet | | | | physical presence. Tributes can be of any |
| memorial is the next best option in terms of | | | | length and stay posted on the site until the |
| keeping the memory of a pet alive forever. | | | | caretaker decides to remove them. An online |
| There are many advantages to online pet | | | | memorial can also have a guest book that can |
| memorials that conventional memorials such as | | | | be signed by those who visit the site and |
| headstones or markers do not possess. The | | | | this may include even strangers who may never |
| online memorials are designed to create a | | | | have known the pet but have been emotionally |
| virtual community of family and friends for | | | | touched by the messages posted.However, the |
| the pet, and there is always so much more | | | | biggest advantage of an online memorial is |
| space to include all the important | | | | that any number of photographs of the pet can |
| information about the life of the pet instead | | | | be posted here and kept open for display to |
| of just a verse of poetry and the dates of | | | | anyone who visits the site. In terms of cost, |
| birth and death.Web portals can be dedicated | | | | online memorials are quickly gaining ground |
| to a single pet or one can simply post the | | | | because many of them are entirely free and |
| photograph and the information about the pet | | | | survive with donations only. This is quite |
| to any of the web sites that specialize in | | | | unlike the cost one has to bear for making a |
| creating such memorials. Online memorials | | | | plaque or a monument that also requires |
| allow family and friends, irrespective of | | | | careful maintenance to prevent erosion and |
| their geographical location, to pay tribute | | | | decay. Also, upgrading any information or |
| to the pet and share anecdotes, stories, | | | | pictorial content is so easy and hardly takes |
| poems, and thoughts without the need for | | | | any time. |