What do you do with your pet at the end? - Page 2

I prefer to bury my pets.

The previous owner of this kennel showed me where some of their dogs and cats were interred, and when the time comes, mine will go in the same area of the property.

When I sell this place, it will likely be redeveloped. Funny, the thought of the graves being disturbed doesn't bother me so much. I guess it's because even cemeteries don't last forever. In this part of the country, I frequently pass graveyards that are all that is left of a rural church that's been torn down.

The world changes. Nothing in this world is forever. I wonder if even my own resting place will be undisturbed 3 of 400 years from now!  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/sandy-uproots-connecticut-tree-200-old-human-remains-122615550.html

I have always cremated and had individual DNA helix necklaces made, with some of their ashes. The remaining ashes, I take to "our spot" (whatever spot that dog liked best, a certain park, the woods, a field, wherever my dog seemed happiest) and spread their ashes.

This is the company I have used for the last few years, they are always respectful and I have always been very pleased with the products. I only have two, a blue and a silver one. When Beau passes, his will be green, as the woods were his favorite. 

http://perpetua.us/

I should also add, they have NEVER had a problem with me submitting ashes. They don't say they offer it, but I have never had a problem calling and double checking before I send them.

Those are actually a pretty neat idea, DDR.

I certainly thought so, and a very reasonable price, too! I was originally led to purchase from them when growing up, we lost a family dog, and saw and adverstisement in DogFancy all those years ago. Now that is my first go-to with any pet loss. I also brush them before they pass/are put to sleep and keep some of their hair, I weave it into braclets. I don't wear them, but keep them as reminders of how much that individual animal weaved his own soul into my life over the years. Strange, yeah, probably but it helps me cope.

it could be bizarre as hell, but if it helps with the coping, screw what other people think. 

Although it is a little strange. :P...kidding

Private cremation and have ashes returned to me;  usually keep them with me. 

I have mine cremated and the ashes returned to me.  When I die their ashes will be mixed with mine.
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There is a spot in the backyard that was already a marked pet grave when we moved in. The previous owner of our house
was a wonderfully nice older lady who also had and loved GSD. We promised her that we would take care of her baby
when we moved in, and have maintained that spot as promised. Her GSD now has company as one of my kitties passed
away last month, and he was burried next to her. The rest of my crew will be burried there as well, when their time comes.

Melissa

I'm a terrible person, I guess. Or maybe not terrible; maybe just clinically cold.

Once their spirit has left their mortal substance, what is left behind is, in my view, no longer my beloved person or creature...it's just the package in which they came here.  I have absolutely no sentimentality when it comes to the body, because while it's certainly still beautiful, it's not the one I knew and loved.

Consequently, I don't bury or do private cremations for my animals; I have them communally cremated along with other pets.  Around here, the crematory has a contract with a local farmer, and he periodically spreads the ashes on his fields, and then plows them into the soil.  Their carbon-based structures in this way replenish the earth for the next generations, while their energy remains vibrant and accessible in the dimension where such entities originate and abide.

It works for me.

I do private cremation and wood urns. Mine have their pictures laser engraved with sayings I come up with that fit them best. They are on my fireplace mantle and continue to watch over the house and kids.