I think that's really cool, if it appeals to you.
I just want to say one thing, and if there's anyone who knows differently, I'd LOVE to hear from them on this subject....
When/if you take your pet to be cremated, obviously, they go somewhere else (at least in MY experience the vet contracts with a company to do this), and they ask you if you want a "communal" cremation or a ...crap, I forget how they worded it, but it was basically a private, or individual (which I took for being ONLY MY pet)cremation; and I paid extra for it and got "their" ashes back in a lovely little cedar box with a little padlock on it with a key to it. I intended to have some sort of piece of jewelry made that would somehow encaspulate a bit of both my bird's ashes so I could wear it always. However, I hadn't decided exactly what I wanted to design and I made the mistake, mostly out of curiosity, of opening up the boxes and what do I find? The ashes of each one is TOTALLY different looking than the other one (and they were the SAME kind of bird)...I'm talking WAYYYYY different looking from each other's ashes
. Now I don't even know if I actually got ANY of THEIR ashes at all
. So, what I'm saying is, what is the use of doing something like this as a memento or to have something close to your heart when it might not even be your own baby's remains? HOW do you know? It's really frustrating and now I'm feeling like I've been scammed once again by the vets....is there any way to really KNOW that that's YOUR pet in there? I figure there are some vet techs at least here who might know the truth here.