I'm so sorry you are going through this and understand how difficult it is. I recently lost my first dog, Bailey. He was 14.5 yrs old.
I chose to have him cremated and found a beautiful urn, that sits on my fireplace with his ashes and my favorite picture of him on it. It is very comforting to have him with us. There are still days that we sense and feel him here, visiting. My other dogs always know.
This is a post I put up, at the end of my post is a link to a video I made for him, if you care to watch it to the end, you will see the urn that I have him in.
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/our...et-bailey.html
You can also find it and other beautiful ones at Angelashes.com