Marking pets graves

carolpetunia · May 16, 2007

The stepping stone idea is excellent... something unique and unmistakable. But it does worry me that the next owner of the house might not respect that, y'know? They might not like having a grave marker there, and I'd hate for them to rip it out.

I wonder if maybe you could use, for example, a nice sundial set down in a bit of concrete... something decorative that doesn't make its true purpose obvious.

alleygirl · May 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Bella713

Paula...I LOVE THIS

Do you put fresh flowers on her grave or do you plant flowers there?

Alley is buried at my mom's in Oklahoma so last week I put all the silk flowers there. When they fade my mom will replace them. We considered planting flowers, but wasn't sure it would work out well since the bush hangs over.

Bella's stone is so beautiful. I would love to get something like that for Alley one day.

sibohan2005 · May 16, 2007

When storm passed away we marked her grave with a paveing stone with her name and the date we also planted crocuses around her stone. Our previous pets have the same sort of markers

gailc · May 16, 2007

I am too thinking of having Sheba buried with me I didn't know if that was too wierd but I'm glad it isn't.

swampwitch · May 16, 2007

My experience has been that it's best to keep the grave inconspicuous, if it's not your place. Not all people respect pet's graves.

crittermom · May 16, 2007

You can go to a place that makes grave markers and have one made for her.Here they are only about $9.00 and they are about an 8X8 and you can have their name and date of birth and death on them.
We have our furbabies graves marked with flowers--fake and real and the kids made them a marker of their choice to place on the grave.we are able to place ours deeper though and place them in their favorite blanket/towel and then because of the critters-buzzards/possums and all, we also have to place them in a garbage bag to keep them from being dug up.

libby74 · May 16, 2007

Well we knew our Bella (My baby) was going to die, so we were prepared, she is in a casket and she is in a tomb that my DH built into the ground, and also her casket is shrinkwrapped and then she was laid in there and a 70 lb top on it, so nothing can get to her, she is going to be buried with me so I wanted to make sure someone could get to her without problems...

That is absolutely amazing! I wish I'd thought of that when my Belle passed away a year and a half ago. (she looked so much like your Bella)

My experience has been that it's best to keep the grave inconspicuous, if it's not your place. Not all people respect pet's graves

Unfortunately, I have to agree with this. This may sound ghoulish, and I truly don't mean to upset you by suggesting this: since it's only been 2 weeks, is there any way you could possibly re-bury your kitty? If her resting place was deeper, you might not worry about it so much. I'm only suggesting this because of a bad experience with my Mimi's grave. I guess I didn't dig deep enough, and when my Dad tilled the garden the next spring.

....... If you know just where your kitty is buried, you could dig right next to her, make the hole much deeper, and sort of manuever her so you wouldn't actually be taking her out of the ground.
That sounds so awful, and I'm so sorry for suggesting it, but it seems as if this is really weighing on your mind. I hope you can come up with a good solution. I'm so very sorry about your baby.

bella713 · May 16, 2007

Originally Posted by libby74

That is absolutely amazing! I wish I'd thought of that when my Belle passed away a year and a half ago. (she looked so much like your Bella)

Awww, I would love to see a pic of your Belle

momofmany · May 16, 2007

When we moved last year, we left 4 cats and 3 dogs buried at our old house. 3 of the cats were buried years ago and we let catnip grow wild over their grave. The dogs and the 4th cat have trees planted over them so that they will remain undisturbed, but also to allow them to contribute to new life. The last pictures that I took of the house on the day we sold it was of their graves.

Personally, I don't mark them with anything other than natural things. Burying anything in your back yard is actually illegal in many areas, and I don't want to draw attention to it if we move. My realtor actually told me to not to tell the buyers that we had animals buried on the property.

alice_curiouser · May 16, 2007

We buried my Max cat under the lilac bush. We bought one of those stepping stone kits at the craft store, and made our own marker:

dragoriana · May 16, 2007

Originally Posted by libby74

That is absolutely amazing! I wish I'd thought of that when my Belle passed away a year and a half ago. (she looked so much like your Bella)

Unfortunately, I have to agree with this. This may sound ghoulish, and I truly don't mean to upset you by suggesting this: since it's only been 2 weeks, is there any way you could possibly re-bury your kitty? If her resting place was deeper, you might not worry about it so much. I'm only suggesting this because of a bad experience with my Mimi's grave. I guess I didn't dig deep enough, and when my Dad tilled the garden the next spring.

....... If you know just where your kitty is buried, you could dig right next to her, make the hole much deeper, and sort of manuever her so you wouldn't actually be taking her out of the ground.
That sounds so awful, and I'm so sorry for suggesting it, but it seems as if this is really weighing on your mind. I hope you can come up with a good solution. I'm so very sorry about your baby.

It's only been 8 days, i dont know if i could do it and i dont want to suggest it to mum or dad and upset them. The whole flower bed is hard and you cant go far down. Dad started digging in the backyard where it was soft but mum wanted her closer and not just in the yard where she could be walked over so we had no choice. I could not bear to look. Ill have to settle for something heavy or a marker

duchess15 · May 16, 2007

My mom's cat, Duchess, I buried in a flower bed area which is undernearth some weed fabric, I did dig it quite deep. Then I put dirt on top of that and planted some fall asters. That way there is always something to remind me of her. My mom had gotten a statue cat that looks almost like her and has that out there to mark the spot. That way no one will ever be able to disturb her.

crittermom · May 16, 2007

Since she isn't deep in the ground, maybe you can use some weed plastic to place over her grave........ and then put some potting soil and some pretty flowers over top of the plastic.That way no one would walk over her and everyone would know not to dig there because of the flowers.Maybe a rose bush!

bella713 · May 16, 2007

Originally Posted by alice_curiouser

We buried my Max cat under the lilac bush. We bought one of those stepping stone kits at the craft store, and made our own marker:

That is so sweet...what a nice idea

libby74 · May 17, 2007

Awww, I would love to see a pic of your Belle

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I'll see if I can figure out how to post one for you (I've only done that once before, so I'll have to see if I can do it again!) Unfortunately, most pics of her don't capture her amazing blue eyes.

adymarie · May 17, 2007

I also like the tree idea - plant it near her final resting place and then it shouldn't be disturbed.

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