If your pet died.
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Joshua Farrell
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Depends on local laws. 🙂 I personally probably would take it somewhere where I can properly dispose of it.
My German Shepherd named Gunny died last year and we buried him in the back yard. I will always bury my animals when they die.
One of my cats died just last week. We buried him in the backyard, as we always have with other cats before him. I will always bury my animals when they die as well. The thought of "throwing it in the garbage" makes me sad.
I was kind of thinking the same thing. Why would you throw a body in the trash? That's a really bad idea, actually. Whenever one of my pets dies, I bury it somewhere sentimental. I remember when the dog that I had from 4-16 died, I buried him in the woods near where we'd always bird hunt, because that was somewhere that I always felt was special between us.
Morbid topic, what a downer. 😛
I've flushed dead fish down the toilet. I've burried animals in the ground, but never in a box. That way the body can absorb into the earth over time and someone wont dig up a box with an animal skeleton inside it one day in the future.
I don't have an pet is I wouldn't know. But I would be very upset and think on a very nice way to let it go away in peace. also not in the box, as it's not going to be nice if it gets dinged up again
I think it's better to bury a pet when it passes away.
There was one occasion where I didn't. In 2019 and 2020 during my divorce, I lived at an apartment complex where there were stray cats left and right. They'd eat people's leftovers out of the dumpster. Sometimes the cats would die. One day I saw that one of the cats was gravely ill and the neighbors decided to try and feed it thinking that it would make it better. It sat next to their day hyperventilating and not moving over the weekend until it died. They left the body outside between our doors to rot for everyone else to smell. I didn't bother the dead cat for almost 2 days thinking my neighbors would bury it or do something with the body seeing as they're the ones who invited it to their door. They didn't. It was starting to draw flies and to prevent having flies swarming into my room, I decided to do something about it. It stunk bad! There was no back yard, it was all parking lot as I lived right in the middle of town next to a few law offices and the court house nor I didn't have a shovel to bury the cat with. So there was no way I could bury the cat. I didn't have any pets of my own either at that time as I lived on a strict budget. So I just grabbed a trash bag, me and my son bagged it, and we put it in the dumpster.
There was one occasion where I didn't. In 2019 and 2020 during my divorce, I lived at an apartment complex where there were stray cats left and right. They'd eat people's leftovers out of the dumpster. Sometimes the cats would die. One day I saw that one of the cats was gravely ill and the neighbors decided to try and feed it thinking that it would make it better. It sat next to their day hyperventilating and not moving over the weekend until it died. They left the body outside between our doors to rot for everyone else to smell. I didn't bother the dead cat for almost 2 days thinking my neighbors would bury it or do something with the body seeing as they're the ones who invited it to their door. They didn't. It was starting to draw flies and to prevent having flies swarming into my room, I decided to do something about it. It stunk bad! There was no back yard, it was all parking lot as I lived right in the middle of town next to a few law offices and the court house nor I didn't have a shovel to bury the cat with. So there was no way I could bury the cat. I didn't have any pets of my own either at that time as I lived on a strict budget. So I just grabbed a trash bag, me and my son bagged it, and we put it in the dumpster.
When our dog died it was winter and the ground was too frozen to dig a hole so I had to take her to the vet.
When my daughter's guinea pigs died, we dug holes near our garden, where a tree shades the area and they're side by side (2 years apart in death).
When my daughter's guinea pigs died, we dug holes near our garden, where a tree shades the area and they're side by side (2 years apart in death).
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We live on acreage so have buried pets but the last 2 we had cremated.
I don't believe in just throwing it in the dumpster. I can see how some would have no other choice however.
I don't believe in just throwing it in the dumpster. I can see how some would have no other choice however.
I think it's terrible to think that people think to throw their deceased pets in the garbage! I love animals more than humans and see my pets as family. I could never think to just dispose of my deceased family member in the garbage, I either buried my deceased pets or had them cremated.
Cremated our dog who died during the beginning of COVID and there is a little shrine set up in my mom and dad's room with photos of her. We have the urn she is in in the shrine too. Really the 'shrine' is just a drawer! Sadly she just got too old and couldn't walk much, so made the choice to get her put down.
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