Here's the other shoe...

[moosmom]

Grace,

I've already made provisions that when I die, my ashes are to be combined with all my cat's ashes and scattered at Bolton Lake in Bolton, CT. It is a place I hold near and dear to my heart.

JennLibrarian,

Does your friend have a website I can go to? That would be a wonderful idea!!!.

[pomtzu]

I've already made provisions that when I die, my ashes are to be combined with all my cat's ashes and scattered at Bolton Lake in Bolton, CT. It is a place I hold near and dear to my heart.

This is what I am doing. I will be cremated and the ashes of all my RB kitties and pooches will be mixed with mine, and we will be scattered in the ocean.

Donna - you might want to check your state laws for disposal of cremains (Human). You can't get dumped just anywhere - legally that is. I know even for ocean disposal, it is required that it be 5 nautical miles from any land mass. Of course on the State of DE website when I was checking on this - it also mentioned the "don't ask-don't tell" way. Who would ever know what someone would do with ashes they get back - whether it be 5 miles at sea, or in the rose garden in the back yard, or on a trail thru the forest.

Don't ask//don't tell..............

[catmandu]

My Found and Porch Cats ashes are sprinkled around the Wishing Well at My Vets in the Country so they can all be together again.
And My Vet would never do something like that as hes in total charge of the clinic and does not have to answer to partners or make a set amount of money coming in every month.
I am sure that Moo Shoo is sad that you are upset and hes there saying it doesnt matter Meeowmie!!
Our love is Furrever and nothing will ever ever change that.

[cassiesmom]

This is the listing for the memorial beads from Glacier's shop on etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php...ng_id=13495342

How mean of the vet's office to transfer Moo's ashes to you in a plastic bag. The least they could have done was informed you that is their practice, so you could have come prepared with a more durable container.

Hugs and prayers,
elyse

[moosmom]

Cassiesmom,

Thank you for posting the link!! I'm going to have 3 beads made from Mollie, Casey and MooShoo's ashes. The beads are beautiful!!!

[jennielynn1970]

This is the listing for the memorial beads from Glacier's shop on etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php...ng_id=13495342

How mean of the vet's office to transfer Moo's ashes to you in a plastic bag. The least they could have done was informed you that is their practice, so you could have come prepared with a more durable container.

Hugs and prayers,
elyse

Thanks for finding the link for me, Elyse! I knew it was somewhere!!

I think it was in such bad tastes how they handled the whole thing. I would never frequent that place again. They owe Donna an apology. She lost her beloved pet, and they hand her a bag?! That's disgusting and disrespectful to any creature that has passed on.

[Moesha]

JennLibrarian,

Does your friend have a website I can go to? That would be a wonderful idea!!!.

Glacier has a link in the marketplace thread here on PT. I had a couple of beads made with Morgan's ashes. One is a pendant that I can wear and the other is just a plain bead that I can have with me all the time. They are beautiful. Cassiesmom gave you the direct link to Glacier's shop on etsy too. Look in to it. You won't regret it.

[moosmom]

Moesha,

I just looked at the beads and they are beautiful. Well worth $20 each. That would be a wonderful keepsake.

I like that "don't ask, don't tell" thing.

[jennielynn1970]

JennLibrarian,

Does your friend have a website I can go to? That would be a wonderful idea!!!.

Hey Donna,
It's GLACIER, from Pet Talk... she lives up in the Yukon with all those crazy huskies and such. I think she has an ETSY shop as well, and you can check the Marketplace part in Other in Pet Talk. My memorial beads are just stunning... they glitter and just make me think of Bear so much!!

HUGS... Jennie


PS>... I'll look for an ETSY link!

[pomtzu]

Donna, you really shouldn't be upset with the vet, since they contract with a third party for the cremation.

I have had remains returned to me in various containers, depending where they have been done. I've had a cedar box, a heart shaped decorated tin, plastic urns, and brocade boxes shaped like a treasure chest. Usually the humane society does them, and we have several places around here that have pet cremations as a specific business. Even one of the funeral homes in Dover does them at their crematorium. It just depends on who does it as to how it will be returned to you.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

like Pomtzu said, the remains are packaged at the crematorium, not the vet. If they put it in something nice, the price would be higher. You want an urn, buy one. They are in the cremation business, they're not a funeral home. There is a pet cemetary around here that does cremation but I don't know what they send ashes home in, since all of my animals have been buried in the yard intact. My vet did give us a cardboard coffin though.

Anyone else keep thinking of the scene from Big Lebowski about the urn? The guys said the ashes were going to be sprinkled, but the funeral home insisted on trying to sell them an urn. In the end they brought the ashes out in a coffee can.

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

MoosMom, I'm glad you got your sweeties ashes without having to wait til the 3rd.

I think it's normal that the ashes are in a plastic bag. That's how our Jack Russell's were, BUT the bag was inside a cute little box shaped like a treasure chest and covered in a nice material. Lucky for us, that box fit inside the little dog-house shaped urn we got...so Aggie's ashes are in a bag in a box in a box. She's the first pet we ever had cremated. We always just buried our pets here on the farm...but Aggie was so special I got to thinking that if we decide to move when we're older, I couldn't bare the thought of leaving Aggie's bones here. I wanted to be able to take her with us wherever we go. Her urn is to go in the casket of which ever one of us goes first.

[cassiesmom]

But the remains were returned to the from the crematorium to the vet's office, so the vet's office could have placed them in a more appropriate container before Moosmom picked them up, or they could have told Moosmom what to expect. A plastic bag just seems heartless to me.