Just like that Crosby, Stills, and Nash song… we have “two cats in the yard”
One of them is buried in a Victoria’s Secret box.
My ex had one of cats cremated and still has the remains.
A little creepy, if you ask me.
I have the ashes of three dead dogs and a cat on a shelf in my living room. I had the first to go individually cremated and it just seemed right to do it for the rest of them when their time came. I guess it’s a little weird and creepy, but I don’t know what else to do with them.
One of the dogs is my ex’s. She was ours when we were together, but went with him when we split. We had been apart for ten years when she died. Her ashes were sent to my address and my ex still isn’t ready to collect them. It’s ok with me, she can stay there with the rest of them.
My sweet Jazzy passed away suddenly and without warning last week :(. He will be cremated and returned to me in a small oak urn.
Just out of curiosity, what could a person expect to pay for a pet cremation?
We buried little Velcro in the backyard. We made a marker with an old piece of cedar and a pair of laminated pictures. One when she was a kitten of maybe 7 weeks and one when she was maybe 10. She is under a nice tree.
Oh, I had to bury a Hermit crab named Kansas one morning in the winter a few years earlier as it was my daughter’s first pet of her own that passed away. She had a pair of fish die somewhat recently. But they were only a few weeks in our house so we froze them and returned them to Petsmart.
I get the Python reference, that was a classic!
We just buried our cat, Booboo, who was 18, Wednesday. We buried him in the front yard. We have many pets buried in the side yard (we have about 4 acres to bury in) and it was time to move to the front yard since we don’t actually mark these graves. If the pet had a favorite area, we put them there. We often plant shrubs or the like over them so they will be part of the plant over time. Only one official engraved stone, and an area all to herself, for the best dog ever.
The fish get flushed, except the big ones that get thrown in the trash. The cat got put down here at home, and the vet took the body with her when she left. I didn’t ask what she was going to do with it.
It depends entirely on the company. The suburban crematory that contracts with my vet wanted in the neighborhood of $350 or $400 for a group cremation, no ashes returned. The funeral home I went with cost me about $150 for an individual cremation, which included everything including the scattering urn.
ETA: Oh, also, depends on the size of your pet. They usually measure this by weight. Merlyn’s body basically crashed out in his last two weeks of life, so he was about 6 pounds, and thus the smallest cremation fee.
It depends on the services you ask for, too – if I’d asked the funeral home to pick up his body, that would have added another fee, anywhere from about $65 to $200 depending on time of day, weekend/holiday, and where they were picking up from. Same with drop-off service.
Keepsake urns cost more, there are bunches of add-ons you can opt for (chapel services, graveside services, etc. etc.).
You can google “pet cremation” to find something local to your area and get an idea of pricing.
My late beagle’s ashes are in a wooden box on the counter in the upstairs hallway . RIP Kichwa girl.
Told the vet clinic to cremate in the cheapest way possible (mass cremation) and no desire whatsoever to receive the remains. I loved that cat and miss her every day and blame myself for her death (she was showing signs of illness before I left for a trip that ended up being longer than expected, but then again, she’d been ill for a long time), but I just don’t think there’s any value other than pain in having mementos/ashes/etc.
I feel the same way about human remains…I wouldn’t want an urn of someone I loved in my own home, that’s just creepy.
I doubt they ever did anything, but after I left once my cat died, I told them that if there might be value in the vets/students/techs doing a necropsy and seeing how my cat died, then go for it, because the worst case scenario is no one learns anything, the best case is someone might get a clue on treatment of acute kidney (+other organ) failure. Learn if you can, it’'s so much more important than any ceremonial bullshit I might have asked for.
All departed kitties are buried under the redwood tree: housecats and ferals together. I have given space to two friends’ kitties as well.
I’ve had my last 2 cats and 3 dogs individually cremated and ashes returned.
I usually pay about $150 or so. They are returned in a velvet bag with a signed certificate stating they were individually cremated on such and such date. I don’t buy the urns from the crematory or my vet, but I’ve bought one from Petsmart, a couple online, and a few at the Ren Fest. It’s cheaper, and I can get an urn that suits the pet.
We put Poppy the fancy rat in a box and buried her under the lawn of the local city farm. We’re regular visitors and a friend works there, so wee were allowed - it’s not a regular thing (we don’t have a garden of our own).
Graham, Mao and Lucky (all cats) are interred in the unofficial Boulder City pet cemetery, just outside Boulder City, NV. They share a fairly good sized plot and each has their own rock cairn.
Should Heidi, Leon or Tina (my current herd of feline overlords) pass away while I live in this area, they will be buried nearby the other three.
Not my photos, but someone has a small album of pics of the cemetery here.
Pet Rest is the company my vet clinic uses. Group cremation, no ashes back, is around $50, depending on the size of the pet. Individual cremation with ashes returned starts at about $125 for anything up to 30 lb and then you add $1 per pound on top of that. The standard ‘urn’ is an aluminum tin, and they have tons of options for purchased urns. They also offer internment in their mausoleum for the cremains.
Hmm no option for taxidermizing them or even freeze-drying them.
In any event cremated is what I did-15 years and I still think of him daily (Dickens the black lab).
A cat I didn’t like (not that he was “a bad cat”, but he was very destructive and really should have been living in a barn killing rats) took very ill. On a Superbowl night, no less, so I drove him to the emergency vet’s and we decided he should be put out of his misery. I left his body there for disposal, for an additional charge, and I feel bad about that. I would have preferred to bury him in the back yard, but the ground was frozen and I didn’t want to bring him back home dead in the car!..Another beloved cat, we had cremated at the pet cemetary. I went to pick up the ashes, they were in a plastic bag in a pretty tin box with a lid. (while I was there, I was quite surprised to see all kinds of pet coffins, and a handout about services for your pet!) … We dug a hole in front of the birdbath, had a reading (from the book “How To Care For Your Himalayan Cat”), and each of us recited our favorite quotation about cats. A final sprinkle of catnip, and the burial was completed…My mom was in charge of a hamster this winter, and IT died, and of course I had to go take down the cage and all that. Poor little guy was dead in his little plastic house, so I took him home. Put him and his house in a little cardboard box, put that in a paper grocery bag, and put that in a trash bag. I would gladly have buried poor Nibbles, but again, the ground was frozen solid…Fish always get flushed. NOTE: If a fish dies and you flush it away? Please, please, please - throw in a wad of toilet paper and flush twice? Make sure it goes down? Because I have been rudely surprised a couple of times in my life when a goldfish had passed on while I was out of the house, had to go in and pee, and…:eek:
My last cat died in the middle of winter, so burying it was out of the question. I decided I’d just take her deep in the woods and let the scavengers get her. I found a nice spot and dropped her down an embankment. Rigor cause her to roll end over end, and I couldn’t help laughing.
I had an ex boyfriend who woke me up at 5:00 in the morning the day after our cat died, and as the garbage truck drove past he told me she was on her way to heaven. The relationship didn’t last too long after that.
My last kitty is buried in my backyard and I planted an azelea over her grave.