The Candle Ceremony for pets who have gone to the Rainbow Bridge and for pets with special needs has been online for almost ten years now, since its beginning at Prodigy Online back in 1993.
Ed Williams does a wonderful job of running the Petloss.com website. Archived on the site are over 60,000 names of Rainbow Bridge residents and special needs pets, and links to many, many resources for grief support for those of us who have recently lost a special friend, or who wish to help support someone who is dealing with loss. Poems and stories are collected on the site as well.
The Candle Ceremony takes place in the site's chatroom, and offline all over the world as well, at 10:00pm Eastern time. I will be lighting a candle for Jake (and General, Hobbes, Pinkie, Cyler, Umbro, Ira and Otto ... we've lost way too many special friends this summer) tonight.
I love that website, I went there last year when Princess died, and then again this year with Pinkiw *sighs* I wish I'd know about that lifegem program when I had Pinkie cremated