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jennlin
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more about death/dying.
pets?
what do you plan on doing with your pets? what have you done in the past?
my big dog is on his way out (slowly, but surely 
)... he's 12.5, and i think we'll have him cremated and kept in the house.our little doggie, same thing..probably cremated and kept.
these are my first non-hamster, non-fish, non-parakeet pets. i don't know what my parents did with my hamsters before, but i know my brother and i buried our parakeets that got dug up by the neighbors cat.
ugh, i don't want pets after these go. they are so much heartache.
♥ bfp2 02/15/2012 ♥ edd 10/23/2013 ♥
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
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jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
Re: more about death/dying.
I think every pet except the dog has been buried in my parent's yard (hamsters, parakeets, rabbits, cats). There were so many pets before the dog and the dog was bigger than all of them (not that big, just biggER, he was a Lhasa Apso rescue), oh and my parents had taken him to be put down because he wasn't doing well at the end, so they left him at the vet.
Our cats will probably both live to see a house, so we'll just bury them there when they die. None of the pets have 'headstones' or anything btw, burying them was just logical.
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We actually had the discussion last night that if my cat dies, someone should just go ahead and put me out of my misery.
I had a pet bunny that I loved dearly that we had cremated. I think future animals would also be cremated.
I don't stay in one place long enough to feel okay with backyard burial.
omg, this is me. i don't know what i'm going to do with myself when my dog dies.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
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this.. just thinking about it makes me cry.
jenn- i'm so sorry that your baby is not doing well.
thinking of him and hoping the he isn't in any pain.
i will probably not want animals after my baby boy dog passes either.. i can't even imagine. i think i'll probably have him cremated also.
It's depended on the animal. When it was a situation where the vet was part of the end equation, we usually let the vet take care of it. When my dad's little dog passed away 2 Christmas's ago, he had her cremated and the urn was in my house for many months (Dad was moving and didn't want to risk misplacing her) but she is now back with him. When most of my cats have died at home, we buried them in the backyard.
When our current kitty dies, we're going to be an enormous mess. He's such our baby! By that FAR OFF date (I insist, he's 3.5 and he will live a minimum 12 more years!!), I would want to cremate him. I would keep some of his ashes for a memento-use and then bury the rest of the ashes in an appropriate spot in the yard. For the memento, I know an artist who has started working in a business with a friend where she takes the ashes and mixes it into some clay from which she then sculpts a little statue of the pet. I kind of like that idea.
We buried our last kitty on my parent's property. DH even built a solid wood coffin and we put her in her favorite bed and included some 'family' pictures (of the three of us). Sounds a bit creepy in writing, but it was really sweet & super sad. They have 40 acres and that's were all the family pets are buried. We planted a shrub where our kitty is and check on it most times we visit. This is where our current kitty will go when the time comes, too....but I don't want to think about that....
Oh, and on a similar note to KTS_ - there is a glass blowing studio in Centralia that will blow custom glass pieces including human/pet ashes. We got to see some of the final products and they were beautiful! I'm not sure I would want to drink out of a Fido or Aunt Mary glass, but a vase or something would be really nice!