How do you get rid of a dead dog.

Andybez38

How do you get rid of a dead dog? It's a boxer dog but is not dead yet (getting on in years) . Its not even my dog, its a family members. The ground in her back garden is a bit hard and it would take alot of digging to bury it. How much is a cremation for instance? My suggestion of taking it to the local chienese takeaway did not go down too well.

snowman2_2

2 things - if your dog is in that bad of a state, should you not get it put to sleep to stop it from suffering? Otherwise, take it to your vet, they can arrange a cremation with the ashes scattered at the crematorium. We charge £15.50 for this. Any euthanasia (if needed) would be on top of this.

MrsE_2

snowman2 wrote: »

2 things - if your dog is in that bad of a state, should you not get it put to sleep to stop it from suffering? Otherwise, take it to your vet, they can arrange a cremation with the ashes scattered at the crematorium. We charge £15.50 for this. Any euthanasia (if needed) would be on top of this.

When you say we, do you work in a vets?

Just out of curiosity how much to get a cremation & your ashes back in an urn?

When my cat goes, I don't want to bury him in the garden, in case we move.

snowman2_2

I own 2 vets practices in the North West. For a cat we charge £64 for the cremation and another £30 for a wooden casket. We don't specifically sell urns but they can be ordered if needed. I would expect the cost to be similarish to a casket. We don't make a lot of money from cremations, less than a fiver. We offer this as one last service to our patients (and hope the new kitten will come to us).

Bromley86

Andybez38 wrote: »

chienese

Intentional pun?

pboae

When we had our old dog PTS the vet didn't charge for disposal. We could have had him cremated communally or on his own, and got the ashes back, but that's not something I really do (not knocking people who do, it's just not for me).

suki1964

The vet can usually arrange "disposal".

There are many private pet crematoriums, you can have a simple cremation with the ashes returned, to a full blown service, Hurst to pick up pet, service at crematorium, single cremation, casket, plaque in memorial garden etc etc etc

SnowyOwl_2

If you (or rather your relatives) decide on a burial after all, it'd be necessary to check the local council's bye-laws. Some expressly forbid burial of pets in gardens due to potential contamination of water. It's unlikely they'd ever know, except of course that some busy body neighbour or other could blab.

Different vets seem to have different arrangements with pet crematorium, so possibly ringing round a few of them to find out what they offer might find you something that would be suitable.

Penny_Watcher

Bromley86 wrote: »

Intentional pun?

I somehow doubt it. :cool:

purpleprincess

suki1964 wrote: »

The vet can usually arrange "disposal".

There are many private pet crematoriums, you can have a simple cremation with the ashes returned, to a full blown service, Hurst to pick up pet, service at crematorium, single cremation, casket, plaque in memorial garden etc etc etc

Crikey, how many would go for that???

t_r

I think my old Roxy cost about £200 that was for a separate (dont know the right word but incineration is probably right)
My vet organised everything and returned her to me in a lovely urn which now I have moved house I can bury. Just cant decide on the perfect spot yet.