When Your Cat Dies

By: Bonner, Christy R.

This therapeutic book is written by a licensed psychotherapist who spent more than 10 years working with grieving children. The author is also a cat lover, who currently has three living cats, and she has been through the death of three beloved cats.

This book is designed for children ages 5-9 to help them understand the concept of the death of a cat and the complicated emotions that follow. The book explains that when a cat dies, they cannot wake up again. It validates feelings like guilt, sadness, anger, and loneliness as normal grief reactions. There are specific questions to encourage conversation and the sharing of memories between children and adults. There is also a page at the end of the book for children to draw a picture of their cat or glue a photo of their cat, so they might personalize the book.

This book reminds children that while they feel sad now, there will come a time when they can feel joy again and feel gratitude for the sweet times they had with their cat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS9PDFPN
• ISBN13: 9798251751130
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"