Closed pet cemetery, crematorium under investigation - Prayers pls for owners & pets

[mike001]

This is so unbelievable, enough to make one sick. I feel so sorry for that poor woman,discovering her dog's body that way---I would be devastated also.
I hope the owner gets what he/she deserves for such cruelty and disrespect.
Thanks for posting this Cathy, makes one think about details when thinking of cremation for a pet.

[BC_MoM]

A family pet of ours, Chelsea, was "cremated" at this place, after not recovering well enough from an surgery that she had to remove a blockage in her intestine.

My grandparents got the papers in the mail the other day to fill out if we want to have the ashes tests. I'm almost too disturbed to find out, but I would like to know. Ultimately though, it's up to my grandparents.

I'm glad this place is going out of business.

[IRescue452]

This is aimed at all pet owners-- wake up! Even if you get your pet privately creamated by a "reputable" vet, chances are they aren't giving you ashes belonging to your pet. Fact of life, sorry to say.

[BC_MoM]

I beg to differ. I'm sorry if you've had those kind of experiences, though.

[Kalei]

This is really disturbing and terrible new I want to have my Bobo's ashes when he passes away someday, but news like this makes me scared that maybe it won't be his ashes that I get.

[Catty1]

This place did creamations for the Humane Society - a big organization, but it sounds like they did them for vets as well.

This is a good time to ask your vet where cremations are done and how you know you are getting YOUR pet back.

Cole is due for his checkup later in Sept - I'll ask my doctor then.

I would hope a lot of vets have their own crematorium?

[CathyBogart]

The last place I worked ran their own crematorium and had two options...a private cremation, where they did exactly that and gave you back YOUR pet's ashes...or a communal cremation, which was inexpensive, and many animals were cremated together and each owner got some of the mixed ashes.

I don't know how most crematoriums operate, but it seems that if they're going to do communal cremations they need to let the owners know.

This place...I don't even have words for this...it makes me want to cry just thinking about it.