Crowe
Billerica, MA USA
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When our coonhound passed away our son was about 5. It was a cold, October night and he just lied down in the kennel after playing with my husband and went into his final slumber at the age of 12 or so. Hubby had been on a business trip and it was almost midnight, so the only option was the ER vet that was 45 minutes away. We called to give them a head's up and to verify they would take the body. The vet recommended because it was cold to just wrap Hannibal up in a sheet, put him in our shed until morning and that way we wouldn't have to pay the emergency fee. We spent the $75 emergency fee and poor hubby had to take the drive by himself because we couldn't leave our son alone in the house. It was the best $75 we spent. There was NO WAY I could handle poor Hannibal being in the shed, nor could I handle the thought if him being buried in the yard. And darned if my son didn't make a beeline for the shed the next morning to look for something before he went to school.
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sue.t
Ibex Valley, Yukon
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Josey, Chaos, Jake and Fangcat were all buried on our acreage on Vancouver Island. Tazz died from a fungus she contracted on Vancouver Island, and because we were on the road when she died, she was cremated. Her ashes are now with us here in the Yukon, on a property she would have loved! We moved to the Yukon because of Tazz and that evil fungus, Cryptococcus.
It would have been much too difficult to leave her buried in the forest there, when it was that forest (a fungus that thrived in the forest) that killed her.
I'm glad she's here with us!
sue t.
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jbbrick
Near San Francisco
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Hate to say it, but we have 5 dogs and 2 cats ashes in boxes in our closet. Thats over probably a 25 year period...one of these days we'll take them all to a nice place and bury the boxes but we never seem to get around to it. Each one was special and different but all were our kids and deserve the best.
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NiteMixr
Milford, Ma
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Burying or cremating is up to the individual pet owner. We had to put our yellow lab down in early Aug due to an injury and we had her cremated...She now resides in a cherry box atop our mantle with a picture of her on the front...
Sorry I got a little something in my eye after reading all these post...may all our pets go to a better place when they pass....
RIP Ginger
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kernewek
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Some years ago my brothers family had a dog called Bendy, when he died his kids, aged about 5 and 7 were understandably upset and wanted a proper funeral for him, so they buried him in the yard in a very solemn ceremony
A couple of days later my SIL came out to find the youngest in the process of digging up the spot where the dog was buried, she asked why he was doing that and he replied that he wanted to check whether Bendy was still there or if he had gone to heaven yet
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Deb and Ed M
SW MI, USA
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Code2High wrote:So basically... your dog's last act on this earth was to get you out of a ticket? Sweet!
ROFL!! I never thought of it that way before - but yeah :-) What a great dog!!
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Deb and Ed M
SW MI, USA
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My sister's husband has the best "whattaya gonna do with a dead _________" story:
My sis raised and showed Arabian horses. Her stallion was a fierce little guy named BC - he was only 14.3 hands, but in the show ring, he was Park Horse extraordinaire! (for those not into horses - he could trot really big and fancy). Anyway - some time after feeding on Christmas Eve, BC colicked (got a tummy ache) and died. My poor sister had the awful experience of finding her favorite horse dead on Christmas morning. The WORST part was that the rendering truck wasn't going to be around for weeks..... (as Dr Doug said - burying critters is against the law - particularly when they're the size of a horse, assuming you had the gumption to dig a hole THAT big) and since my sis was inconsolable, her hubby said HE'D take the horse to the rendering plant the next day.
After dismantling half the barn (BC was good and stiff by this time), my BIL finally got BC into the aisle, then rigged up some sort of Rube Goldberg contraption with boards and a stout come-along and manged to get BC into the back of his pickup truck - laying on his back with the classic all-four-legs-in-the-air pose..... so off they went. The rendering plant was 40 miles northward.... and BIL had to stop and fill up the truck. He said *naturally* - a minivan filled with kids had to pull in next to him - he could hear the shrieks even with the windows closed... he just closed his eyes and prayed the gas would pump faster... and he had to endure the stares as he drove down the expressway.... he said unloading at the rendering plant was far easier - he just backed up to where he wanted BC to land; dropped the tailgate - then gassed it! Since BC's last "bed" was snow - he just shot right out the back of the truck and BIL just kept on goin'...LOL!!
Unfortunately, this is what happens when you love LARGE animals (unless you live on 40 acres, own a front-end loader and don't have any neighbors... shhhh!) You can't bury them and they won't fit into a crematorium - you have to brace yourself to grasp that their last trip is particularly gruesome :-(
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louiskathy
Oregon (presently)
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They can cremate horses. Cremation of a horse runs about $1 a pound. I bought a 3 yr old in 1977 and he passed away in 1998. After 21 years of giving his whole heart every time I asked him to do something....he deserved it. But when I bought him and named him Smokey, I wasn't thinking of that.
It takes a lot of years for that final memory to go from sadness to giggles. It sure is not funny at the time.
Kathy
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Sluggo54
Madison, SD/Livermore, CO
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Maggie died a little less than a year after we went full time. Her ashes have been with us since. Every time we find ourselves at a place where she was with us as we traveled, we leave a bit of her there. She is in Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and of course Texas. There is a favorite spot on the beach at Aransas Bay, where we took her to wade. She loved the surf, and as she grew more weak, it gave her a lift that lasted a day or two. When we were baptized a year after she passed, we chose this spot to do it.
Kaia is a great little dog, and we love her dearly, but Mag was our soul dog.
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Dashonthedash
CO
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I can imagine what that officer must have thought when he saw what was in the car. It wasn't in New Jersey, was it? 
I have the cremated remains of 4 dogs on the top of my refrigerator. Willow, my Heart greyhound, was the first to go up there. She was extremely thunderphobic in the later stages of her life, and I'll swear that, after she passed, the refrigerator would shake every time there was a thunderstorm.
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