cremation or burial?

[.sarah]

We buried Retread the day he died, when I was 9 years old. I remember asking my mom about a week later, if we moved, would we be able to take him with us? When she said no I started crying. My mom told me a few years later that she didn't know cremation was available with pets. Needless to say, when Buttons died we had him cremated. He is in our cabinet where all our special things go, which we don't have much of. To me it's comforting that I always have him with me. I still have his collars and stuff like that, which are more important to me because I can still hold them, and until a few months ago they still smelled like him, but I guess his ashes provide a sense of closure.

[zoomer]

I want to cremate my Georgia Girl, we'll probubly bury Buddy, and we will most definetly cremate Alaska. I hate thinking about them passing away though

[Dixieland Dancer]

I have three of my past loved ones buried in the woods behind our house. I even have crosses on the head of their graves. The summer before last I had problems with neighborhood kids making ATV trails all over the woods. They didn't run over the graves but they made a loop around them. It disturbed me to the point that I went down and asked them to either move their trail away from the graves or I would post the property private so they couldn't use our woods anymore. Fortunately they moved the trail away from the graves without a major hassle.

All this got me thinking though. I may not always be there to preserve their final resting spot. While I know it is just their carcass and that their spirit is in heaven (yes I believe dogs have a spirit), it is still a sacred spot!

My present and future dogs will all be cremated and so will I. My will requests we all be scattered in various spots we loved along lifes journey together. It means a lot to me to know that our ashes will always be united as well as our spirits in the end. I also think it will be a meaningful journey for the loved ones I leave behind (humans) to revisit my favorite places on earth while they fulfill my request of places to be scattered. I guess in summary.... In ashes or spirit I never want to be seperated for eternity from my fur kids!