God, I got that dreaded call I didnt want to get
 

The Funeral home called this afternoon to say come collect the remains of Scooby:( ...I cant go for him, I just cant bear to see my dog as a small box of ashes:( ......I told my husband please go and get it and keep it in his office, I cant bear to see scooby like that. I have been really upset about this. Each time I think of his cold gray dead body laying in that basket it makes me want to scream:( and now knowing he is a box of ashes is something I cant deal with. I am not being cold, I just cnat see him this way.

oh I"m so sorry for your loss prayers coming your way.

I'm sorry for your loss.

I am sorry

I am sure that is hard. why don't you bury him?

ohhhh how sad. my heart goes out to you.

I am soo sorry for your loss. My mother had our shih tzu Calvin creamated when he passed away. Now we keep his box of ashes by the window (it was his favorite place to hang out). If you can't bring yourself to do that then maybe you could bury him in your backyard, and you can visit him whenever you'd like. :rbyorkie:

OH I so know how you feel. I had that dreaded call myself once and it was horrible, going to pick up my babies ashes. I had to do it since it was just me. I wish I didnt. I cried and cried and cried. My heart goes out to you. Remember it was just scoobys body. What made Scooby, scooby was already up at the rainbow bridge giving you lots of loves from there! Hang in there, it will get easier.

I am sorry for your loss

The Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing: they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her bright eyes are intent. Her eager body quivers. Suddenly the animal begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, its legs carrying her faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face. Your hands again caress the beloved head and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together...


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I know how hard this is for you...and you have a wonderful family of support here on YT :hug:

When the time comes for me to let go of one of my furbabies, I am going to look into this place....thought I would share it with you.....
http://www.pet-gems.com/

I am so sorry! I cannot imagine how hard this must be for you. I'll keep you in my prayers :)

No, we decided to take him back to Brittany France and sprinkle his ashes in the yard to the beach house and on the beach where he loved so much. I had even made home made dough decorations with Scooby and Bandit's first xmas:( I will die to open that up this coming Christmas:(

Yes it is hard and tear choking I cant do it. My husband must do it, I will collapse if I have to pick him up in that tiny box, I just cant do it:( I am crying as I type this:(

Thank you all so much, I wish I can reply to all but I may get into trouble for it. So God bless you all, the support here is overwhelming. I hope nobody has to go thru this, I know we all have to at some time, but I hope not when our babies are only 7 months old:( , to me, that is the hardest part:( , each day he comes to my mind, each time I walk the street I remember him. Each time I SEE a yorkie on the road I choke up:( , each time I peel a carrot he is in my thoughts, each time I look at the food I want to bawl, I had to throw it out this morning. I will just buy a different brand. he left so MUCH uneaten meat in the fridge and he had no right to do that, who will eat all of that? It was especially made for him:(

Thank you all for the links and lovely warming poems

I am so sorry for your loss. HUGS

that would seem the best thing to do. Make a pretty stone arrangement around the 'grave' and put something memorable there to honor him. or perhaps put something there that he loved.

Remember this is just Scooby's body. His soul will live on with you forever.
Hopefully it will get easier. Hugz
RIP sweet baby!

I know this must be so hard for you.

I am soooo sorry you are going thru this...and I feel for you, I really do...I have been there before w/ our Shih-tzu many years ago.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can't imagine my life w/o Mojo..and I know you feel the same about Scooby. I am also not a big believer in cremation, but I couldn't have it where I wouldn't have Mojo around...so when the time comes (I hope it is many many years away), I will have him cremated and turned into a stone so I can have him with me no matter where I go. (although, I know he will be there in spirit). I couldn't possibly think of burying him somewhere, as I know we would probably move and I couldn't leave him behind.

Oh goodness....:cry8: Just let it all out....we are all here for you and many have been in the same situation. Rest easy knowing that he is still with you and always will be. :love-hug1

I am so sorry and know how you feel. I got the call on Dixie's ashes last week and went to pick them up and just lost it. I just kept saying to myself just last week I was holding her alive. Dixie was the same age as your baby and way too young to leave us. I bet they found each other and are complaining on how much time their Mom's spent on YT. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

I too had a very hard time bringing Teddy back. It took me a long time before we had a memorial for him in the backyard.
I need to get a tree for him. Something that will keep him shaded in the sun. I miss him so. I know what you are going thru. My heart goes out to you and in time you will be able to get everything taken care of. It's also very important to grieve. Don't worry if it takes awhile. It took me three years before I put Ted in his final resting place and I still have a bed for him in his usual spot. :justahug:

I had to go pick up my beloved Schnauzer's ashes a couple of years ago. But he lived a long life till he was 14, so it is different. I found though, that I was/am very comforted by looking at the beautiful box with his ashes. We didn't sprinkle them, they are on the mantel. I love knowing that the box symbolizes all the great times we had over the years.

I'm really sorry for you though, I can tell it is really hard.

So sorry for your loss... You will be in our thoughts & prayers

The funeral home? :confused: When they cremate them here, the vets take over and in a week, they call you to go to the vets office...

The vet's office does it here also. I guess it is different in each country.

I was at the vet with Monday once when a man came to pick up his dog's ashes.
He had tears in his eyes and it was so sad.

His dog was diabetic and blind, so he was also donating syringes to the vet. He told me that he still looks down on the floor to make sure he does not step on his dog.
I felt like hugging him.

I am so sorry for your loss.

I'm so sorry for your loss...it's so hard, especially when our dogs are our babies/children. My heart goes out to you right now :(

I am so sorry for you and my heart goes out to you. I hope in time you will find comfort knowing that you were the best MOM. I am sending hugs your way to keep you warm. Please take care .

Mary

I had a dream last night he came back home and was jumping and chasing around:( , he did come back home but in a wooden box, my husband just picked up his remains, he said he too cried:(

this is Germany, vets do not do that, it costs several hundred euros to cremate a dog. They have a normal type funeral home like for people, except for dogs, they even have a viewing area to view your pet. I like this way, I think it makes it even more human and more of a real feeling of loosing a family member which the babies are to us. They creamate the animals in the north of Germany and then send it back to the funeral home, then the funeral home calls to say the remains are there for you to collect. They have beautiful dog cemeteries with headstones and so on. But vets do not do this, nor is it cheap

Actually I said I wont look but I have asked my husband to bring it home tonight, he has picked the remains up and I said bring it home, I will weep and say my prayers for little cobo I used to cal him for short or cooby, then he will be sprinkled in Brittany France when we go there later this year, that was his last holiday and it will be his final resting place as he loved it so much, running on the beach and playing

Wow, I thought they were quick in Germany(blood tests back that day), but it sure takes them a long time to cremate pets...Ours took actually less than a week..it took 2 weeks for poor scoobys ashes..?