Pet Priest grew out of the idea that it would be nice to have a forum where people could share concerns, hopes, wishes, dreams, etc. about their pets, animal friends, animals in general, . . .

The virtual candles used in Pet Priest "illuminate" such wishes, concerns, hopes, &/or dreams / etc. To those of us that otherwise would never know. Who knows, maybe the thoughts or prays of someone you've never met & don't know may just make a difference in the life of your pet / animal.

Candle can be lit for any, just about any reason, or no reason at all.

Accompanying text / etc. can say what you're praying / hoping for or what you want other visitors to pray / meditate / concentrate / etc for.

If you don't want to say why a candle is being lit, don't want to include a photo, etc., that's ok as well.

To a large extent, Pet Priest is what you &/or others make it.

One of our goals is to have an honor roll of some sort - a place or various places on the site where we can list the names of all the pets that have had candles lit on Pet Priest. Names may form a sort of Wallpaper that in turn could be used to "paper" various pages or parts of pages that make up Americananimalawards.com's site.

Check in from time to time for more exciting developments regarding Pet Priest.

A number of upgrades are in the works or are planned.

We have a number of ideas regarding candle placement, size &/or types of candles, how text/ photos are handled, the addition of video/ audio, and so forth.

People can, should they wish, pay an extra fee, say $1 to $5+, that will be used to light candles for those that can't afford to pay the required / suggested fees or just don't want to pay - more on this later.

For those that want a link to the "real world," we can light actual candles for an additional fee, TBA - probably at one or more area church / etc. [this may be a nice way to further support such organization]. Depending on volume, such "real" candles can be lit once per week, 2-3 times per week, or as schedules permit, etc. We'll probably post some sort of rough schedule & disclose particulars soon or as soon as we can.