04-17-2011, 10:33 PM
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monkey
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 4,543
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Coffee
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Vets will cremate for a fee and many people take advantage of this low hassle alternative, or
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many people, especially families with children (for the "this is death" educational value from losing a pet), take the body home and bury it in a garden pet cemetery perhaps already in place. They might make or buy a small grave marker, perform mini pet funeral, etc, etc as elaborate or simple as one desires, or
c.
a select few will take it to a taxidermist and keep a creepy doppelganger of their dead pet in a corner, or curled in front of a hearth, to gather dust and creeped out comments from their dwindling pool of human friends, or
I went with b. but am lagging on making the head markers because life got busy
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OMG, c. freaks me out. I don't want to dust Knucks body. And, I want to keep the friends I have. He will be buried in my yard. Like b. very much.
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