What happens to your pets when they die?

[panthercham]

A strange question...suppose you bury your pet's body in the backyard and many years later you find out that the house is going to be torn down and a bigger one built there that will result in your pet's body being dug up...what do you do?? Let it happen or what??

Well thats a big can of silkworms that you have opened!!

I think I would let it be

 

[renzo0684]

A strange question...suppose you bury your pet's body in the backyard and many years later you find out that the house is going to be torn down and a bigger one built there that will result in your pet's body being dug up...what do you do?? Let it happen or what??

Well I guess you do what you want... me I said my piece and let the animal go. I would just let it happen I dont know if that makes me a bad person but I am not gonna dig up a box and relocate it....

 

[SpinyFranky]

Well I guess you do what you want... me I said my piece and let the animal go. I would just let it happen I dont know if that makes me a bad person but I am not gonna dig up a box and relocate it....

burying the poor thing is bad enough... I can't imagine digging it up again.

We have a pet cemetery in our back yard... one or two cats the coyotes got to and our dog who was put to sleep ( blind, arthritis, skin rashes that bled ). Ide be scarred and creeped out as hell to have to go digging around there....

 

[Elizadolots]

I say, put it in the ground and put a plant on top of it so you get the great "circle of life" experience....then go back to your life. It's not like this is an ancient Native American burial ground. If you move, you move. If a gas station is built there later, a gas station is built there.

It does not diminish the love you felt for your animal at all.

 

[Seeco]

Yeah I agree. If the body is clean I usually pry up a slate from a walkway or a big rock or log and scoop out a little hole and bury there. Decomposition will return its molecules to plants and bugs. If I think it died from parasites or something it goes in a plastic bag and in the garbage can...

 

[Elizadolots]

In the many decades of my life many pets have been disposed of in the garbage or sewage system (including one dog...my mother went out and begged the garbage man {that's what they were called then} to help her and he took pity on her...he picked up the dog and took it away, telling her not to follow him past the door) That does nothing to diminish the love I felt for them. The dog that got picked up by the garbage man is close to the top of "stories told after death" because she was an extreme character....the way her body was dealt with after death does not affect how we remember her.

 

[kinyonga]

Seeco said..."Decomposition will return its molecules to plants and bugs."...but the bones remain for many years.

 

[Elizadolots]

Seeco said..."Decomposition will return its molecules to plants and bugs."...but the bones remain for many years.

Which archaeologists in the future will appreciate as they decide that many humans kept reptiles close to them..just in case something happens that is so drastic that internet records go away, those in the future will know we kept these animals close to us.They have importance.

 

[Seeco]

Yeah, there was like a TON of bones all in the corner of my yard when I dug it up for a garden. They were like all the same femur bone or something too which is odd. Like what you'd expect on a 30-50 pound animal. bones....scary

 

[kinyonga]

Seeco...maybe what you found was a "graveyard" where a farmer put all his dead animals?

If the bones I was talking about near that house get dug up it will be in the near future and not likely drawn to the attention of any archeologist. The bones will likely just be dug up and end up all over the place.

 

[SpinyFranky]

In the many decades of my life many pets have been disposed of in the garbage or sewage system (including one dog...my mother went out and begged the garbage man {that's what they were called then} to help her and he took pity on her...he picked up the dog and took it away, telling her not to follow him past the door) That does nothing to diminish the love I felt for them. The dog that got picked up by the garbage man is close to the top of "stories told after death" because she was an extreme character....the way her body was dealt with after death does not affect how we remember her.

That story made me depressed.... what happened to Rainbow Bridge?????

When one of my parrots sporadically passed away we put him in the freezer until the gardener came for the week. 20 bucks later he had dug a hole in our lil cemetery and he was put in a little popcorn bin wrapped in a blanket with all his favorite toys...I bawled horribly.... I loved that bird so much.


Now you gotta say the garbage man took your dog away... and im sad.Again.I might bawl. Again.

thanks.

 

[summoner12]

Syn is correct that these things shouldn't be discussed here BUT allot of member refer to the Rainbow Bridge when a beloved pet is lost.

Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of Heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine and our friends are warm and comfortable. All of the animals that had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those that were maimed, hurt or neglected are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.

The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing – they each miss someone very special. Someone who was left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Their eyes are intent, their eager body begins to quiver. Suddenly, they break from the group, flying over the green grass, faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into those trusting eyes, so long gone from your life, but never absent from your heart. Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together . . .

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wow! very touching! Very vivid...

 

[eisentrauti]

The rare ones end up together with this here:

in this here:

 

[jrh3]

They end up where ever you put them. Animals have no soul. THere body is made of minerals from the earth so they decompose and replinish from the earth what they took from it when they were make.

 

[ayyash7]

The same thing that happens to humans...nothing, lol. Back to the earth with the body and the circle of life goes on.

 

[Syn]

The rare ones end up together with this here:



in this here:

Pssh, alcohol(ethanol)? Why not in this?

 

[Miss Lily]

I still can't read all of the Rainbow Bridge. It brings tears to my eyes and reminds me so much of my first glider and my dear Lily chameleon.

The most 'special' pets, we have cremated. Our first cat and my first sugar glider's ashes are in little boxes next to their photos, so they are always where they belong - with us! When I lost my first girly cham, Lily, last May, it broke my heart. She was so special and her death affected me far more than I ever thought it would. I honestly didn't realise that you could become so attached to a chameleon, but there is just something about them. I had Lily cremated and her ashes live above her cage which is now Amy's house.

 

[Zen Reptiles]

Well this can be a topic of quantum physics, not specifically religion.

I believe in reincarnation after having read the work by Dr. Helen Wambach and others in the 80s ( http://www.carolmoore.net/articles/helenwambach.html )

Every time a pet is dying, or found dead, I say 'May you be enlightened in another life, little friend' I really think that animals that have had a life made well by human intervention and compassion have a better chance at a better life in the next incarnation.

So, biologically, I think it's dumb to cremate an animal and keep the ashes; it should be put back into nature as fertilizer. Keeping it is ignorant and only for self-gratification, IMO.

I feel a lot better about it knowing that the cycle that CREATED the animal keeps on going, instead of me stealing a part of that cycle for myself.

Life is much more complicated and beautiful than Rainbow Bridge, lol.