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I just posted in the RIP thread. It was one year ago today I had to put our 10 yr old Lhasa Poo to sleep. I still cry over her I have no idea how long it takes to get over the loss of a beloved pet. Our Yorkie is our baby now and we love her but still miss Millie. Our pets who died at home are buried here Millie was in pain so I put her down at the vet so she was cremated. I did not want the ashes back it's just not something that comforts me. You can never really prepare for the death of someone or a pet you love. However if you do choose to get ashes back please pick them up. When I worked at the animal hospital we had so many people ask for ashes back, pay the extra money for it then never pick them up. We had a shelf just for the unclaimed ashes there were so many. I guess people are grief stricken and say they want ashes back but then change their mind later or maybe it's just to painful for them to go pick up a box that used to be their pet. Some just don't want to return to the place where they last held their pet. They in hind site would rather remember the pet the way it lived not in a box.

I have a friend who is blind and the only pet she ever got ashes back from was her seeing eye dog. She said the dog had done to much for her over the years to just let him go.