• Create a living memorial by planting a tree or bush at Tree Givers, http://www.treegivers.com/index-pets.html

• Participate in online pet loss groups to remember your beloved companions.

• Collect photographs and make a photo album or scrapbook, frame pictures or just carry them with you in your wallet.

• Start a pet loss support group in your area or volunteer your time at an animal shelter.

• Collect your favorite pictures and turn them into a screen saver for your computer.

• Make a donation to your favorite cause in memory of your pet.

• Watch old video taken of your pet with you and your family.

• Call people who were closest to your pet and invite them over to your house and exchange stories with each other about good times spent with your pet.

I started thinking about opening up my own website and started out with free 2 page ones and I did get a purchase or two from my eBay customers but at that time I was also selling my shirts for a frugal $6. I did get tired of only having 2 pages for my clothes, I wanted to be more professional, since I was making extra money from eBay so I invested it into a real website, It did take a lot of work to build and even now I’m still spending many hours a week on my current site but it’s worth it.

I finally had my first real website and shortly realized that traffic doesn’t come automatically so here I go again, doing hours of research on website promotion till I found and hired a company to submit my site to a certain number of search engines for about $40 a month, I thought that’s all I would need but I was so wrong. I finally found Overture, signed up and before I new it, I was doubling income that I was making on eBay WITHOUT THE FEES, I canceled monthly submissions. In 2004 I learned of Adwords, signed up and started to triple and sometimes quadruple my income in a day and haven’t sold on eBay since.

I owe it all to Stitch without him, none of this would have ever materialized, he played so many vital roles in this business and ultimately changed my life, without Stitch there would be no Princess Petwear.

Stitch passed away on 12-23-04 at 3 years old and I have yet to stop crying over his memories.

Its 2005 now and dog clothes selection on eBay is now up to 50 pages long, I now work for my business 40 a week and consider myself a work-at-home-mom with 4 kids, ages 13, 11, 7, 2. I still miss my Stitch, I always catch myself daydreaming of him remembering how soft his fur was and how I loved to rub my check against his face, I also find myself reminiscing on how would baby talk him and shower him with kisses and hugs, then I wipe tears from my face and get back to work.