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About Pet Lore
Pet Lore is a digital storytelling platform preserving the memories, rituals, grief, and emotional histories we build with animals.
Pet Lore includes The Good Companion, a journal for essays, art, research, field notes, and guided storytelling about the lives we share with animals, and the Pet Lore app, a private memory-keeping app currently in development.
For media inquiries, interviews, images, background information, or collaboration requests, please contact:
Liana Meyer
Founder, Pet Lore
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Good Companion
Fast Facts
Project: Pet Lore
Founded: April 2026
Founder: Liana Meyer
Journal: The Good Companion: A Pet Lore Journal
App status: In development / pre-launch
Current journal issue: Issue No. 01: Service Animals, Care, and Companionship
Focus areas: animal companionship, memory, grief, service animals, pet culture, ethical storytelling, guided memory-keeping, and human-animal bonds
Website: PetLore.org
Location: Founded by an American woman based in the Philippines, building for an international English-speaking audience
About Pet Lore
Pet Lore is a story-centered platform for preserving the memories, milestones, rituals, grief, and everyday meaning behind a life with animals. The project brings together digital memory-keeping, ethical storytelling, community publishing, and guided reflection to help people document the bonds that shape their lives across pets, people, and time. The Pet Lore app is currently in development as a private space for pet owners to preserve memories, milestones, photos, stories, and shared lore.
About The Good Companion
The Good Companion is Pet Lore’s journal for essays, art, research, field notes, and guided storytelling about the lives we share with animals. The journal publishes thoughtful work about companionship, memory, grief, service and working animals, pet culture, animal care, and the emotional bonds that shape people’s lives across time. Each issue is organized around a theme and designed as a polished digital publication.
Story Angles
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The rise of pet memory-keeping: Why pet owners are looking for more meaningful ways to preserve memories beyond photos, captions, and social media posts.
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Service animals, care, and public understanding: How service animal stories connect to disability, access, independence, grief, trust, and the emotional complexity of working partnerships.
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A new journal for animal people: How The Good Companion is creating space for essays, art, research, field notes, and first-time contributors writing about the lives we share with animals.
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Pet grief and memorial storytelling: Why animal loss deserves thoughtful public and private storytelling spaces.
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Ethical AI and personal memory: How Pet Lore is exploring AI-assisted storytelling while prioritizing consent, human voice, privacy, and emotional authenticity.
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Building a storytelling platform from abroad: How a U.S. communications strategist based in the Philippines is building a remote-first storytelling platform, app, and journal.
Founder Bio
Liana Meyer is the founder of Pet Lore and Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Good Companion. She is a communications strategist, editor, and writer with 20 years of experience in ethical storytelling, public affairs, executive communications, editorial systems, and mission-driven narrative development.
Her work has included high-stakes writing and editorial leadership for government, nonprofit, global development, health, and startup contexts. Through Pet Lore, she brings that experience to a new storytelling platform focused on animals, memory, grief, care, and the bonds that shape people’s lives.
Liana is available to discuss:
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Why animal stories deserve serious editorial space
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Pet grief, memory, and personal storytelling
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Service animals and public understanding
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Building a literary journal around lived experience
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Ethical AI and memory-keeping
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Launching a digital storytelling platform as a solo founder
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Remote product development and community-led publishing
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How first-time writers can be guided into publication
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Pivoting from a career in communications to becoming a solo developer
Media Assets
Available media assets include:
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Pet Lore logo
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The Good Companion masthead
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Founder headshot
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Founder bios
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The Good Companion - Issue No. 01 contributor guidelines
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Short and long boilerplate descriptions
For additional images, quotes, background, or interview availability, please contact lmeyer@petlore.org.