Mama Loves the Puppy Is a Love Letter to the Pets Who Become Part of Us
There are some losses that split life into two versions: before them and after them.
For Baroque Medusa, that loss came with the passing of Fenway Badasz — her fiercely loyal, stubborn, hilarious, food-obsessed little companion who spent fifteen years woven into nearly every part of daily life. What followed was not only grief, but silence — the absence inside familiar routines, muscle memory, and the moments where she still expects to hear paws approaching from another room.
Mama Loves the Puppy: Loving and Losing a Dog is not a polished “pet loss guide”.
It is something far more intimate.
Part visual memoir.
Part fragemented poetry collection.
Part emotional time capsule.
This hardcover release blends personal photographs, fragmented memories, grief writing, humor, and raw emotional reflection into a deeply human portrait of what it means to love an animal like family.
Throughout the book, grief exists beside absurdity. Tenderness exists beside chaos. One page may leave readers crying while the next captures the ridiculous reality of living with a tiny canine who believed she ruled the entire household…because they did.
It’s what loving a pet really looks like.
Messy.
Funny.
Loud.
Routine.
Devastating.
Sacred.
For anyone who has ever kissed a sleeping forehead before bed, talked to their pet like a person, saved collars after loss, or felt the unbearable silence left behind afterward, Mama Loves the Puppy will feel painfully familiar.
This is not only a book about losing a dog.
It is a book about attachment, companionship, identity, and the invisible emotional architecture pets build inside our lives.
And once they are gone, nothing feels arranged the same again.
Fenway & Baroque Medusa: Ride-or-Die Since Day One
Fenway was never “just a pet”.
She was Baroque Medusa’s shadow, emotional support system, household alarm, cuddle partner, comedy relief, protector, and constant companion for fifteen years. Their bond shaped routines, memories, emotional survival, and everyday life in ways that only animal parents truly understand.
From barking at delivery drivers and demanding treats to lying beside her through heartbreak, lazy Sundays, music sessions, and ordinary moments that somehow became unforgettable, Fenway existed as part of the emotional fabric of the home.
Mama Loves the Puppy documents that bond honestly.
The book captures the small things grieving pet parents obsess over afterward:
the empty side of the bed
the missing sound of paws
nose prints on glass
hearing phantom barks
shaking collars in the middle of the night
still saying “good morning” and “goodnight” out loud because love does not immediately understand death.
Fenway’s personality lives inside every page:
the alpha energy
the sweaters she escaped from
the french fries she somehow survived
the dramatic barking
the sleepy crossed paws
the ride-or-die loyalty that lasted until the very end.
A Pet Loss Book That Understands the Depth of Animal Love
One of the hardest parts about grieving an animal is how misunderstood the pain can feel to people who have never experienced that bond themselves.
But pet parents know.
They know animals become routine.
They become emotional anchors.
They become family structure.
They become witnesses to entire eras of your life.
Mama Loves the Puppy was created for the people still sleeping beside an empty spot in bed.
The people who still carry tags in their purse.
The people who still instinctively look down expecting their companion to be there.
Whether you loved a dog, cat, rabbit, bird, or any animal who became part of your soul, this book speaks to that universal grief.
Buy Mama Loves the Puppy Now
Mama Loves the Puppy: Loving and Losing a Dog is now available in hardcover.
If you have ever loved an animal so deeply that losing them changed the atmosphere of your entire world, this book was written for you.
Not to “fix” grief.
Not to rush healing.
But to remind you that your heartbreak is real because your bond with your pet was real.
Baroque Medusa 
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