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post #1 of 7
8/15/11 at 1:59pm
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It is with great difficulty I type this message. My beloved Miss Blackie of approx 9 yrs. passed away on Aug. 11th of sudden heart failure. She had heart disease. I have arranged a private creamation for her and would like to get a special urn or box. I really dont know what I will get from vets office as I made arrangements through them. But I know you can get them online complete with name and picture. Any advise from someone else in my shoes.
Thanks Brenda
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post #2 of 7
8/15/11 at 3:14pm
An urn or box can be anything that you want it to be really. It all depends on what you want.

I suggest checking out Etsy - lots of people on there make ceramic urns that are very nice, there are also quite a few wooden ones.

There are also a few places that will make jewelry that you can place some of the ashes in, or have stones made from the ashes. Some will create a piece of artwork with the ashes incorporated into it. One of my old friend's mother died, he had some of her ashes mixed into tattoo ink and had a memorial tattoo done. I don't know how sanitary that is, but it's beautiful and he never got an infection or anything from it.

Here are some of the urns on Etsy -
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?...ery&ship_to=US

Here's a place that does artwork and glass pieces from ashes -
http://www.artinashes.com/Cremation-Art-information.php

And some jewelry where you can incorporate ashes -
http://www.ashestoashes.com/

The urns that we've received from the vet all depends on where you get it done. Our dog had to be put down at the emergency vet - they let us choose if we wanted a ceramic urn or a wooden box. We chose the box and it's a lovely little one. The vet where we had one of our old cats cremated at didn't given an option and we got her back in a really odd looking ceramic urn that had little flecks of colour through it - I hate that urn.
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post #3 of 7
8/15/11 at 4:26pm
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Thanks for your reply. I guess I will wait too see what I get back
from the vets office and decide if I want something different. Also
A friend of ours daughter ordered something special on line. I will have
to get the website, I hear what she rec'd was very nice incorporating the pets name and picture.
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post #4 of 7
8/15/11 at 5:10pm
Let me start with I am so sorry for your loss I know how devastating it is. My Jasmine went to the bridge on May 9th and is in a beautiful but simple cat shaped black ceramic urn. It is a cat laying on the floor with all four feet tucked under the way she used to sit. Hope this helps.
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post #5 of 7
8/16/11 at 5:32am

Miss Blackie

You should call your vet and ask about places that have urns for you to choose from. When Lynxx died, the vet gave us the name of a place that sold urns. They gave us a brochure to flip through, we found 1 we liked.
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post #6 of 7
8/16/11 at 12:47pm
When we had Andy euthanized last year we had a couple of options and one was a wooden box with brass nameplate which is what we selected. The box came in a black velvet bag embroidered with "till we meet again on the rainbow bridge". I put all of Andy's special toys, collar, bowl and sweaters in the bag.

For Cleo, our girl we are losing, we will do something very similar. My sister got a box on eBay for one of her pets. There really isn't a right or wrong to it.

I'm sorry for your loss.
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post #7 of 7
8/17/11 at 1:04pm
For Marsh who passed away last year, the cemetery where he was cremated provided a very nice wooden box for free, I paid for a brass tag.

What was very special to me is emergency vet taking a footprint using a clay disk used for newborn's feet and engraving it. It's a wonderful memory, since he was polydactyl [6 toes].
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