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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Communal Pet Urn?

Does your family include several pets?  A couple of dogs and at least one cat to keep them in line?
If this is your way of life, you no doubt revel in the constant motion and joyful chaos they bring to your family's day-to-day.  And you are no doubt also aware of the ratio of your life-years to theirs, and the bitter loss when one of them reaches their end of life.

Knowing that several of your furry friends will pass away during your lifetime, there is a way to simplify the rites of passage for each of them, by having a communal urn at the ready.

Meadow Large Urn, holds ashes from pets up to 200 lbs.

When one of our pets passes on to pet heaven, their cremation ashes may go into an individual urn, but a communal urn is another option.  Each pet may be added to one large urn in turn over the years, each in their own plastic baggie.  And their tags could go in the upper sphere of any of our sphere-topped large urns.

The benefit of having one communal urn is that your pets will all be together eventually, and you will have a beautiful urn on your mantel, book shelf or china cabinet that will house them all in one place, versus several small individual urns.

I have found that in the first days after losing one of our pets, when we've received the ashes back from the crematory, it's been helpful to my family to gather together and conduct a brief funeral ceremony for our beloved dog or cat.  We bring out the communal urn, add the cremains within it, then each of us says a few words of remembrance.  It helps us to process our grief together, and begin the healing.

Here is a coupon code to use for purchasing an urn from our web store:  LOVE20, for 20% off your order - simply enter the code during checkout.  (And free shipping still applies!)

All best wishes,

Barbara Bergen, Designer
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