The practice of honoring cats when they pass on goes far back to the time of the ancient Egyptians. Cats, often seen as guardians in the afterlife, are mummified along with their departed masters and are placed in urns for cats.  These urns are then placed in a sacred spot in their masters’ tomb, serving as companions to them in the afterlife as much as they had when they were still alive.

Today, this practice of honoring feline friends who have passed on continues.  More and more cat owners are opting to have their departed cats cremated and their ashes stored in cremation urns for cats.  Thus, if you are the owner of a cat who has passed on and you want to show how much you cherish your cat, you are in good company when you choose to have your pet cremated.

Memorial Options

If you decide to buy an cat memorial, you would not have problems with finding the perfect urn.  There are so many custom choices available for you out there. You just need to take your time to shop for the urn that you think is most suitable for your pet.

Urn for a Cat

Urns for cats are made from many different materials – wood, ceramic, marble, metal, stone, and even plastic and cloth.  They also come in many different styles, ranging from the most simple to the most ornate.

When you decide on which urn to buy, it will help you to consider where you will put the urn in the long run.  If it is going to be placed inside the house, you may want an urn that fits the décor of your house. You will also not need something that is specifically for enduring the elements, like rain, wind, etc. So if the urn is to be put in a spot outdoors, like in your garden, you would need an urn that can withstand last.

Engraved Urn for Cats

Considering Your Budget

There are so many wonderful pet urns available today. And many are not expensive at all. Consider this brass urn. You can have your pet’s name and dates of living engraved on the urn for under $50. On the other hand you can purchase this Cobalt Amphora Pet Urn for $250.

Urns for cats are perfect memorials for a beloved feline friend. They are a thoughtful way of showing just how much you loved your cat and how much she meant to you.

Many pets become a part of the family, a pet loss can therefore be heartbreaking. A memorial that would express one’s love to the treasured pet will give comfort to a grieving pet owner. Pet cremation is becoming a growing trend.  It has become widely accepted and practical and gaining popularity.

Ceramic Pet Urn

Putting the remains of one’s sweet pet in a most deserving receptacle, a ceramic urn, is a wonderful way to memorialize the pet. It is a great keepsake to remember the beloved animal.

A pet ceramic urn comes in different shapes and sizes ranging from small to large. Choosing the right size is not difficult. The measure is how much did the animal weigh before they were cremated. This number will give you the cubic inches of the urn that you need. Most ceramic pet urns can be customized with the pet’s name and dates, with elaborate decorations carved right into the material. It can be adorned with a photo of the pet and with some thoughtful engravings and terms of endearment to be cherished and admired. An urn for your pet can be placed in a significant location at home so that it can be seen often, a reassurance that the pet has been laid to rest in an urn that is meant to last. Honoring and preserving the memory is one way to help a grieving heart heal.

A ceramic urn is just one among other quality crafted urns made of different materials: bronze, marble, stone, wood, glass, metal, granite and even biodegradable material. These urns come in different colors, from bold and bright to deep and dark. Some pet urns can hold many memorable personal items such as the pet’s favorite toy, collar or leash. No matter what kind of urn you might choose, all urns serve as a lasting tribute to honor the beloved pet the best way possible.

Tips on choosing the right pet urn

Some pet owners prefer that the cremated remains would be scattered in a land or in deep water rather than be kept in an urn at home. Deciding what to do with the cremated remain is the first step in memorializing the pet. It is also helpful in choosing the right pet urn.

Here are some helpful tips:

1. A temporary urn made of biodegradable material which is cost-friendly could be considered if the pet owner would prefer that the ashes would be scattered or buried in the soil or deep water.
2. Small memorial jewelries like a small keepsake urn would be a good
   idea if only a small amount of the remains will be kept as keepsake.
3. If the ashes will be kept  in an urn at home, a durable  urn made of
   lasting materials (granite, bronze, metal, ceramics, etc.) would be a
   perfect choice.

There are many wonderful ceramic memorials available. The goal of all beautifully crafted ceramic urns whatever is its size, material, shape or design is clearly to keep the memory of the lost friend. Thank you for reading.

Garden Pet Marker

It is highly likely that when your pet was still alive, your pet made your garden his home. You may have spent time there romping with your pet.  And now that your pet is gone, one of the many ways that you can honor him is to let your pet have his eternal rest in your garden and mark his resting place with garden pet markers.

Garden pet markers work the same way as headstones do in a cemetery. They help you make note of the place where your pet is buried in your garden. They can serve as decorative pieces in your garden that will help you remember your pet and the fun times you had together. Some very unique garden markers are actually pet urns, where half of the urn is buried in the ground that top face is a memorial marker.

Why Choose Garden Pet Markers

Of the number of choices that you have for honoring your pet’s memory, why should you choose garden pet markers?  These memorials are the logical choice if you have decided to bury your pet instead of having him cremated. You will need something to mark the location of his resting place.

This is especially true if you are burying your pet in a pet cemetery or in an eco-cemetery.  The garden pet markers you choose will help you distinguish exactly where your pet was laid to rest.

If you are worried about whether or not you will be able to have your garden pet markers customized, the answer is yes. There are so many materials that you can choose to have as your markers. You can have your markers in the affordable resin material or the more expensive and elegant marble, granite or engraved garden stones. You can have these markers engraved however way you want. You can even have a portrait of your pet etched on the marker.

Landscaping Around Garden Pet Markers

Even after your pet has gone, you can enjoy their presence in your garden. You can make the space in your garden where you had him buried a special niche where you can have some peace and quiet. You can make your pet’s burial spot a place where you can read, meditate, do needlework or any activity that helps you relax.  A pet memorial is very suitable to be outside and we encourage our customers to consider this as their pets resting place.

To do this, you can plant flowers or shrubs as fringe for your pet’s burial spot, with the garden pet markers right at the center. Then you can have a bench or a chair placed there, where you can rest comfortably while passing time with your beloved pet long after he is gone. We encourage planning of your memorial space. Visit In the Light Urns for biodegradable urns. Thank you for reading.

Dogs, cats, rabbits and hamsters are just a few of the many pets each one of us has had at some point of time in our lives. We may have lost them as death took them back to the creator. Although death can be scary, it is a symphony every one of us has to dance to and partake. The relationship we have established with our pets are part of who we are, part of the lifetime memories we carry with us all through our lives and when these pets have to go, it is but normal that we feel pain and grief for the loss.

One of the many dilemmas pet owners have to deal with is the proper disposition of the beloved pet. Most if not all pet owners are quite unaware of the process of pet cremation, with the use of pet cremation urns. It used to be pet owners would just wrap their pets in a blanket, dig a hole in the backyard or in the front yard and place the deceased pet there. This has been the case for many years now. But now there are several individual and pet organizations that have realized that the pets are an integral part of the household and that their loss is a cause for sorrow and pain; garden markers for example can give a pet own a real sense of closure and peace.

Proper disposition through pet cremation is now a service that is readily available to anyone who loved their pets like they do their immediate relatives and would want to give them a good and memorable disposition. Though the pet cremation process might come expensive depending on the size of the pet, but all in all it is worth it. These specials companions deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, therefore their passing away has to be dealt with well, to help preserve the memories of the good times they were with us. When the time comes for them to go to the Rainbow Bridge, let all the good they have had with us, stay intact in our hearts and in our memories forever.

With pet cremation we get to keep the remnants of our pet’s ashes in any pet cremation urn of our choice. Depending on what the owner thinks is the personality of the pet, there are several designs to choose from, other pet owners choose to go with cremation jewelry, storing the ashes in a pendant serving also as “memorial jewelry”.  Now as the years have passed-by, many companies are venturing into the welfare of pet cremation. So the choices for cremation urns and urns for ashes have increased, leaving the owners a wide selection to choose from. Others might make decisions based on how the urn might go, with the character of the pet, others might just go with the size, making sure it would be spacious enough; others would base their decisions on the price. Whatever it is the choice is endless.

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Depending on the size of your pet, cremation prices will vary. We have seen pet crematoriums charge as little as $25.00 for a cat. And as high $350.00 for cremation of large dogs. Average prices for individual pet cremation is $75.00 – $200.00. Mass cremation is the least expensive and is usually $50.00 to $100.00. Prices do depend on local economy and individual crematorium.

How do I get my pet to the crematorium? Many owners simply bring their pet to the crematorium themselves. They can wrap their pet in a blanket and drive them in. There they will be taken and stored until a cremation day and time has been scheduled. Call ahead if you feel you need to know what will happen prior to arrival.

After the cremation is over many pet owners long for some way to memorialize their friend in an appropriate urn or keepsakes. Remembering their pets afterwards, and keeping them in an urn in their home, is a common way to grieve for their pet.

There is no doubt a beloved pet was a cherished companion and as much a part of the family as any other member. Of course, a special final resting place is part of the process in grieving.

Pets To Rest offers so many different urns to choose from. If you want to create a lasting memorial to your pet, Pets To Rest can help you find an urn that’s right for you.

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Pets to Rest has a lovely rotating picture frame pet urn, that has been well rececvied by our customers. The rotating urn allows you to put several photos of your pet and there’s is a large space for the ashes.

Rotating Pet Urn

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Pet Cremation Urns

Losing a loved one is something that is part of life and we will need to face a loss at some point or another. Death is as natural as breathing and no matter what we do it would always come for us when our time is due. The only thing that we can do is make the process of letting go and laying the loved to rest a smooth one. The process of laying someone to its final rest varies from one place to another, from one religion to another and from one culture to another. The beliefs accompanying the notion of death and the ceremonies that comes along with it is dependent on the beliefs of the individual and of his or her loved ones. Losing a pet or a loved one is such a delicate matter and we take great reverence in assisting you with finding the right memorial.

Engraved Urn for Ashes

This care should not only be applicable to the passing of a human being, it should be extended to anyone or anything dear to us, which could well be our lifetime pets. As is the case with the interment of human beings, their interment is just as personal and as private as it could ever be. Pet cremation has been a common way of putting pets to their final resting place; several organizations provide original memorials in your options for urns for ashes. You options for a cremation urn is very important to us at Pets To Rest where we cater to the very needs of the owner by providing cremation services and a wide variety of pet cremation urns to choose from.

The cremation service fee varies from one pet to another; a thing to consider would the size of the pet. For cats, rabbits and puppies the charge could be at $50 to $75 and for large dogs such as a Doberman it could be as high as $100. Typically cremation for a pet could be charged at $150 to $200. Often pet memorial jewelry is chosen because of it’s small and keepsake quality. This pet jewelry blog has more information. If you are still unsure of how these works or if you have questions in mind then better give them a call and have their specialist explain things to you in detail. Often times the primary question of the owner is how they would get their pets to the crematorium. If your pet has passed at the veterinarian, they should be able to provide this service. If the pet is at home, it is common to wrap the passed animal in blankets and drive them to the crematorium. However if you have special requests it is best to give them a call first to see what can be done and to know what happens once you arrive at the area.

One of the most difficult decisions is to euthanize your pet. After years of love, there will come a time when the best decision is to put your pet down. In more affluent and urban areas, pet owners generally go to the veterinarian to have their animal euthanized. And in the country, it is not uncommon to euthanize the animal yourself.
It’s important to consider what will be done with the pet’s remains. Some would prefer to not think about this, but it’s responsible to prepare for the difficult time. We believe strongly in having a plan for the passing of a pet. Pre-planning for people is on the rise, because families see the value of this proactive measure. The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) performed a study which showed 60% of adults in the US intend to pre-plan for their death. So when the end is near for an animal, consider having a cardboard coffin or if you have decided to cremation, perhaps consider a locket or some other pet memorial jewelry.
When planning for a pet’s death, information is very important. If you are well informed you will feel better about making this difficult decision. We encourage that you look at information sites such as Vet Medicine or Pet Place as well as thoroughly question your veterinarian. Questions such as: Is there anything I can do to make my pet’s time more comfortable? Are there any alternative options for treatment for my animal?
The purpose of this writing is to encourage those who will lose a pet to be aware of their options on to encourage them to be informed.

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