I lost my dog of 13 years. Then I built this.

Skylar was a husky. Mouthy the way huskies are — she had opinions about everything and wasn't shy about sharing them. She was funny and playful and had more energy than any dog I'd ever seen. She was also my best friend for 13 and a half years.

I lost her on January 28th.

Skylar and me

I don't have a softer way to say what that felt like. My whole world stopped. The house felt wrong. The mornings felt wrong. I kept reaching for routines that didn't exist anymore — the walk, the feeding, the way she'd demand attention at exactly the wrong moment. She had been sick for a while, and so much of my life had been built around her care. When she was gone, I didn't just lose her. I lost the structure of my days.

People don't always understand that. They mean well. But pet loss sits in this strange in-between — too big to just shake off, not always treated with the weight it deserves. You grieve, but sometimes quietly, because the world keeps moving and not everyone stops with you.

I wanted to do something with that. Not to fix it — you can't fix grief — but to create a place where it could land. Somewhere you could put the photos, the memories, the words you couldn't find at first. Somewhere that said: this mattered. She mattered.

That's what RememberMyPet.ai is. A memorial — a real one, not a folder of photos on your phone. A place where the people who loved your pet can gather, leave their own memories, and remember together. Something that lives online, always there, long after the hard days start to soften.

I built it for anyone going through what I went through. For the person whose dog was their reason to get up. For the person whose cat slept on their chest every night for a decade. For the person who can't explain why they're still crying two weeks later — because the answer is simple: you loved them, and they're gone.

If you're here because you lost your best friend, I'm sorry. I know what that feels like. I hope this helps, even a little.

— Meagan, founder of RememberMyPet.ai