Pet burials, cremation or leave it to vets?

[fondfarewell]

what are your opinions on pet burials or cremation? would you let the Vet take care of it?

[NOX]

Everywhere I've ever lived we've ended up with a vast graveyard in the garden. We've always buried them ourselves, nice to keep the clan together imho.

[carrust]

Some vets sell the dead pets to maggot farms!

[Prudie]

I have left it to the vet but also forked out for expensive cremations and buried in the garden. It is a financial decision as much as anything for many people.

[China Doll]

I'd probably leave it for the vet.

[IggyB]

Vets for the cats and the garden for anything smaller... I would have buried that cats but I learnt to my horror that foxes have an excellent sense of smell, are industrious little diggers and not adverse to leaving the few days old family cat on the garden path.

[daffy654]

I had a cat that died when we lived in Hull, I got in trouble from the council for attempting to bury her in the garden (snitched on by nasty neighbour) and we had to store her body until the council could come and collect it, they turned up in a refuse truck, placed her in a cardboard box and drove off with her in the lorry cab.

[Ratty2E]

I pay the vet to get them cremated for me and I have the ashes returned to me, which I then bury in the garden. Years ago we used to bury them but with having so many small animals which sadly have such short lives it was becoming more graveyard than garden.

[lankeela]

I usually let the vet arrange it and they go away to be cremated. Personally i don't ever get the ashes returned. Most vets have a contract with a crematorium and they are collected every few days. The last one that died I was fortunate (if thats the right word!) that he died at home and a friend buried him in his large country garden as mine is very small. Technically you are allowed to bury them at home if they died there. Ask your vet what they charge and you can also book with the crematoriums direct and take them yourself.

[Kiki-frog]

If I've taken a pet to be put to sleep, I've usually asked the vet to take care of it. Having said that, I've always done my own personal little memorial service afterwards - just lighting a candle, looking through photos and saying goodbye.

[woofgang]

I believe for both pets and people that what is left is just the shell. The vet cremates and disposes of our pets and my dh was cremated and the ashes scattered.

[jules77]

My parents always used to bury our pets in the garden. I now live in what was my parents house, and when we had some building work done a few years ago, the builders kept finding the bones, it was horrible to be honest. We always let the vet sort ours out now, they are cremated, and we have the ashes back in a lovely wooden casket.

[LyndaB]

Our beloved little dog used to spend half his life rummaging about at the bottom the garden. I used to say to him that we were going to bury him down there, and he used to wag his tail as if to say that was fine with him. So we did, and our red Japanese Maple near which he is buried has had a brighter colour this year than ever before.

[bodeker]

I have always let the vet take care of deceased pets, always worried they would be dug up by foxes, if cremation is good enough for me when I go it is ok for my pets lol

[Cannaboy]

We had a single cremation as we wanted to be sure that we only got our boxer Bert's ashes back - not a mixture of many animals as often happens. We went to a wonderful place in Cambridge. There was a beautiful garden there if you wanted to have your pets ashes scattered.