For the ones who never said a word: introducing Solace Companions.

Solace Technologies, Inc. today introduced Companions — a companion experience for the family members with paws, feathers, and fourteen years of good mornings.

Families share videos and vocalizations — the greeting bark, the purr with the rattle in it, the tags on the stairs — and Companions returns the sounds of a good life to the house, on the family's schedule, through the app or the Stone speaker.

"Veterinarians told us the same thing hospice nurses once did: families are never ready. A dog is thirteen years of your life and every single day of theirs. The five o'clock look at the door deserves an answer." — Elena Marsh, Chief Care Officer, Solace

Built with the people families already trust

Companions launches through partner veterinary clinics nationwide, with brochures in exam rooms and clinic teams trained in the same accompaniment standard as Solace's own Care Specialists. "The clinics asked for two things," Marsh said. "Never in the room during a goodbye, and never a pitch. Both are policy. The brochure waits until the family asks."

"We lose fourteen-year-old patients every week, and their people are never ready — they're never ready," said one partner veterinarian in Lake Oswego, Oregon. "What I can tell them now is: the sounds don't have to go with them. For a lot of families, that's the sentence that lets them breathe."

Availability

Companions is available today at $40 per month, directly from Solace and through partner veterinary clinics nationwide, for dogs, cats, and the birds who talked back. The experience arrives through the Solace app and, for families who want the sounds in the room, through the Stone speaker of the Reminiscence Suite.