To many people, this is very similar to the feelings experienced in losing a human friend or family member. People may say unkind things such as “Get over it – it was just a pet!” This is very cold and indifferent, but that is how some people feel. Pet loss can be extremely devastating. Their unwavering love and affection is something you don’t get often in this life from humans.

People often think you are silly if you mourn the passing of a friend, that they are somehow not as important as humans. The truth is, sometimes our pets treat us better than friends and family do – and they are loyal to a fault. This is why the loss of a pet can upset you every bit as much as the death of a friend. Feelings of sadness, despair and depression are natural for many people when a beloved pet dies.

Often, remembering certain things can help you cope with losing a dog or cat. Think back about how your pet came to be with you, where you got him from. What were some of the activities that you enjoyed together? Did you play catch in the backyard, or go for walks every day? Think of some of the rough times in your life, or times that you were deliriously happy. How did your pet fit in the picture at those times? Sometimes, thinking back gives you positive feelings that enable you to cope better.

Dealing with grief takes time. Gradually, you will start feeling better and realize that you still have the memories of the great times you shared with your pet. It happens in stages; you move toward closure. Grief and sadness do not go away overnight. When a furry friend dies , especially one you have had for years, can be emotionally draining. You may lose your appetite, and have trouble sleeping. This is normal for those who truly loved their pets from the depths of their soul. Pets to Rest provides a great deal of useful information to assist you during your time of loss.

It is not easy to deal with the death of a furry friend. There are times when you cry your heart out, times when you simply reflect over the past. You have lost the most loving, loyal and affectionate being in your world. Will you ever move past this? Yes, in time. Gradually, life will return to normal. To help gain closure, many people bury or cremate their pets. This allows you to feel that you have shown love and respect to your pet by memorializing him in a way that demonstrates your feelings, and the special place he had in your life. The loss of a pet is truly heartbreaking, but life will go on, and you will move forward in your own good time.

When a horse dies it is more than just the stopping of a heartbeat, it is the world’s loss.

For centuries horses have toiled for their masters and mistresses, giving of their whole being until, finally, they can give no more. For most even in death they give, as their bodies are hauled to animal feed manufacturing plants.

A centuries’ old tradition for a faithful equine friend is to memorialize him or her with a statue. Some times the horses’ head, hooves and heart would be buried near the statue. The head to signify intelligence, the hooves speed and the heart courage.

In more recent times, some famous horses have been mounted, such as Roy Rogers’ Trigger and his (Dale Evans) wife’s Buttermilk.

For the lucky few, they have a family to grieve for them. That big strong animal who didn’t hesitate to jump that jump cleanly while the ring judge was watching, now can’t even step over the clump of grass. That package of muscle and balance that maneuvered over the narrow trail without a stumble, is down. That soft nose that nuzzled and took away all the human’s stress, no longer is warm.

These are the horses that are buried on someone’s farm with a wooden marker lovingly made by hand, or have their remains hauled off to a pet cemetery. There, a mass grave burial costs approximately $200.00. A private plot with a marker is $300.00. A cremation, urn and burial is between $600.00 and $1,000.00.

Horses and Humans have a special bond. The horses that are loved in life are deeply missed in death.

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.

Pet Cremation Jewelry

Memorial keepsakes are growing in popularity. That is because these jewelry pieces address a need of pet owners that is very important. After losing an animal, for a while it is difficult to be happy without your friend nearby. Pets are cherished members of the family; their owners spend a lot of time with them, whether at play or just for simple companionship.  When a pet passes on, this can deal a tremendous blow to the pet owner, especially if the pet owner happens to be a child.

Keepsakes for pets are perfect for those who wish to cope with their grieving, by having a small piece of jewelry. People are still expected to go on with their lives no matter how big or small their loss is. Having a memorial of your pet near you, assists with the grieving process and helps get the person through this difficult time in their life.

Paw Prints Keepsake

The reason why using cremation jewelry are seen as a good method of grieving is because these jewelry pieces come in so many designs and styles that many of them do not look like cremation jewelry at all. The space inside of a keepsake is quite small, usually measuring approximately one cubic inch. The ashes, lock o f hair or other memento are placed inside this very small space. Many of the pieces of jewelry by J. L. Cunningham have a very petite and elegant look, so that they look more like a piece of jewelry, rather than a keepsake.

Numerous websites allow you to buy these pet keepsakes, and you can choose from the varying materials like ceramic, stone, wood or metals like gold, silver, brass etc. With so much to choose from, it could sometimes get difficult in deciding which one would be best to memorialize your pet. We encourage you to browse the many stores online to find the perfect memorial. You can also call us and we can assist you in your search – (800) 757-3488. There are so many beautiful pieces of jewelry that you can choose from; click on a photo to view more of our keepsakes.

The purpose of this article is to encourage you to consider cremation jewelry as a memorial. You can choose cremation jewelry with religious themes, such as crosses, angels or the Star of David.  You can also pick out cremation jewelry that look so whimsical no one would think that they actually hold the cremated remains of your pet. Thank you for reading and I hope we have helped.

Dogs are very loyal animals and are known for the love and devotion that they show to their masters. That is why when your beloved dog passes on, it is only fitting that you cherish their memory with a memorial.

Hydrant Urn for Dogs

These days, cremation is no longer limited to humans and the same goes for the use of cremation urns. You can choose to have your dog’s cremated remains stored in an urn. These pet urns are widely available and there is something out there that will suit you and your dog perfectly.

Choosing the Right Urns for Dogs

When you browse offline and online catalogs for an urn, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the number of choices available to you. There are just so many out there, and they come in various sizes, shapes and colors. This may make the task of selecting the right urns for dogs for your pet a bit more complicated than it really is, but the task is actually quite simple when you think about it.

Before you shop for a memorial for your pet, one of the things you need to consider is where you will put the urn after your dog’s memorial service. Will you put the urn in your garden or indoors? If you are going to put your urn inside your home, you may want something that will blend well with the rest of the room’s décor. If you are going to place it outdoors, choose an urn that is made of durable materials, materials that can withstand the elements.

Garden Dog Memorial

You may also want to consider the size and breed of your dog. This is not exactly an iron-clad rule, but it may be more appropriate to store the remains of a small dog in a small urn and a big dog in a big urn. Generally the rule for choosing the urn size is how ever many pounds your dog weighed before they passed is how many cubic inches you will need in an urn. The garden pet memorial has a space that is buried in the ground and holds 85 cubic inches of cremated remains.

Customizing Urns for Dogs

Another wonderful option you can go for when selecting urns for dogs is having the urn customized. You can have it engraved with the name of your dog, the dates of birth and death, and an epithet of your choice. You can even have the portrait of your dog painted or engraved on the urn.

No matter what your choice is, it is important that you select the right urns for an animal among the many available out there today. Your dog was special to you during his lifetime; it is only fitting that the urn you choose is something special too. Thank you for reading.

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.

When you loose a pet, it is equivalent to losing a loved one. Our pets will not live forever, just like any living being, be it a tree or any other living creature. However if we are attached to an animal or individual the grief is immense if we know they are no longer alive.

Pet cremation urns can used to overcome the loss of an animal. You may choose to have the cremains near you for some time. This process of letting go can be very healthy; it is best to sorrow take its course, rather than hold it in. This is one of the reasons that many pet owners have turned to pet urns to still have their pet close to them and find comfort.

Pet urns are available in a variety of sizes, materials and shapes and are beautiful enough to be displayed, so that you can preserve your memories for years to come.

Pet urns are made of different types of materials and you can choose from a huge variety such as wood, glass, marble and even metal. You can customize your pet’s cremation urn in the shape of a vase or any other form to display it on your mantle or any other outdoor location. You also can get your pet urn shaped as your pet and display it outdoors, though it may be difficult to get the right look. We at Pets to Rest shy away from replicating an animal because it’s impossible to be perfect and the risk of failed attempts is high. We encourage considering how difficult it is to have a look alike pet urn, even if your cat or dog is a thoroughbred.

You can also keep your pet urn at a pet cemetery, which is now most commonly done. Parks like the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park have special sections that are exclusively devoted to displaying pet urns. These pet cemeteries along with the beautiful pet urns on display also attract a lot of tourists from all over the world. This makes it clear that pet urns not only preserve your pet’s memories, but also can be beautiful works of art.

There are pet memorial urns that can be used for special purposes:

Pet keepsake urns that are made to contain a tiny portion of your pet’s remains and are available in a variety of sizes, shapes, materials and designs.

Biodegradable urns are environment friendly urns and get disintegrated quickly, view burial urns for people.

Dog or Cat figurine Urns are the most popular urns, if you are a dog or cat owner.

Garden pet urns are designed to be placed in the outdoors and enhance your landscape as well.

Pet urns can also be in the form of jewelry that can be worn around the neck. This type of pet urn is a major attraction among pet lovers. Pet cremation jewelry is an attractive idea to store a portion of your pet’s remains in a keepsake that you can wear. This jewelry comes in a range of designs like dog bone, animal shapes, yarn ball and paw prints.

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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.