Pet Cremation Memorials

Pet Cremation Memorials - Beauty is Key

I began designing pet urns and keepsakes ten years ago, and have since loved contributing to the healing process of families who have lost their furry companion.  I’ve dedicated myself to making urn and keepsake offerings that enable one to create a meaningful memorial to their pet.  

Meadow Pet Urn

By selecting an urn or keepsake that somehow reminds us of our pet, we commemorate the life that contributed so much to ours.  An urn or keepsake that aptly represents our sweet little friend conjures warm loving memories as life goes on.  It's especially important during the first days and weeks after losing our pet, to have a focus that expresses the unique spirit of our little loved one.  Engraving the brass closure with a few thoughtful words about our pet, creates a lasting and meaningful memorial to the importance of their life. 

Blue Heaven Pet Urn

When my husband and I lost our little Pickle, we decided to conduct a scattering ceremony with her ashes, as a kind of personal funeral in our back yard.  This was an intimate and very healing ritual, with each of us saying a few meaningful words prior to the scattering.  Now we have engraved the brass closure with her name, dates, and a few words, to make a permanent memorial that sits on a shelf in our kitchen, nearby her feeding station.  Having scattered her ashes, we instead placed her tags and a wee baggie of catnip within the spherical urn.  I know of many families who do not request the ashes back from the cremation, but rather choose to conduct a funeral around the placing of mementos into the urn, and saying a few words.

The final location of the pet memorial urn can be any appropriate place in the home, like on a fireplace mantel, in a china cabinet, on a book shelf, at bedside or on your work desk.  With a permanent memorial urn nearby, the memory of our pet continues to shine on, reminding us of their beautiful loving spirit.
  
Producing inspiring pet urns is my goal, and I’m so happy to have chosen this path.  Some of the testimonials I’ve received on my web site attest to the healing effect that has rippled through people’s lives:   http://www.cremation-urns-legacy.com/Cremation-Urn-Testimonials-s/1859.htm .

Barbara Bergen, Designer
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Pet Memorial Urns

Losing a pet can be just as devastating as losing a family member - after all, our pets are our constant companions, part of our daily life, and indeed members of our family.  Many pet owners have trouble coming to terms with their pet loss, and struggle with understanding the depth of their grief.

It can be helpful to create a memorial.  I have designed a collection of very special pet cremation urns for this purpose, some of which are shown here.  Some have shimmering iridescent 'Tiffany style' glazes, and others have fanciful designs and patterns that are embedded as they are blown into the glass spheres.These urns have a brass 'closure' to provide a circular space for engraving name, dates, and a few thoughtful words.  Engraving can be done by your local jewelery or trophy shop, or we can do the engraving for you.  

Pet Cremation Urns that Serve as a Memorial

The spherical shape of one of of these pet urns can be helpful in the process of moving through grief, as the sphere fits perfectly in one's hands, for moments of remembrance and mourning. 

The brass closure is designed to be discreet, by placing the engraving face-down in the stand.  This way, the message on the closure creates a memorial that only the family is aware of, because visitors to their home will see only a beautiful object of art. However, some families prefer to place the engraved closure face-out for all to see, especially during the near term after losing their pet. 

Brass Closure for Engraving Upon

Some pet parents wish to place only the pet's tags within the sphere, and there is a velvet pouch inside for this purpose.  Other families benefit by conducting a scattering ceremony in a back yard or another location that holds special meaning, and enclosing only a portion of their pet's ashes within the sphere - there is a plastic liner bag provided that will separate the ashes from the tags in the velvet pouch.  Scattering the ashes as part of a life celebration can be emotionally helpful in the process of grieving, as it allows family members to say a few words in a remembrance ceremony that affords a sense of closure, much as a funeral service would do.

Still other families choose one large full-sized (human) cremation urn, to serve as a communal vessel for all their pets throughout life.  Most of our full-sized adult urns have a volume capacity for 200 cubic inches of ash, which is sufficient space for a combined weight of several pets up to a total of 200 lbs. 

'Meadow' Full-Sized Urn

Sometimes a small keepsake is enough to mark the importance of the life of our lost pet.  We have affordable keepsakes such as our series of glass hearts, which contain no ashes, but provide a polished back upon which to laser engrave a few words of memorial.

The ways in which we address pet loss are ever evolving. The most important step is acknowledging the depth of our grieving, and finding ways to process it, such as creating a memorial with which to commemorate our faithful friend and family member.

Barbara Bergen is Designer and CEO of Cremation Urns by Legacy.  Her goal is to help families cope with their loss by providing beautiful urns and keepsakes, including a selection of artistic pet memorial urns.