MerryPip
Adult Guinea Pig
This might have been more appropriate in the Rainbow Bridge section but I just wanted to know what people's experiences were with cremation when they have lost a piggy. I have always buried my boys but find it the hardest thing in the world to do. I hate the idea that they are outside alone in the cold and really struggle to not just go back out and bring them in again....
I am thinking that next time I want to get them cremated but I don't know. H and Fraoch are so close I'd love them to be 'together' when the inevitable happens and that would be easier if they were cremated but equally I don't want to accumulate a little stack of boxes of ashes on my shelf (which is very likely as we like to rehome older piggies...) Any thoughts or experiences welcome. I always have plenty of photos and iusually have some pages in my scrapbook as a memento so not so worried about something to keep.
Also I work away from home most of the week, most weeks so the chances are most of the boys will pass away when I am not there but I want to be able to say goodbye to them before we have them cremated or buried. I'm not sure how feasible this is When my beautiful Stru died I was coming home the next day so it wasn't an issue but it could easily be 3-4 days til I was home....
I don't know what's the best way to make this hard time easier, all I know is I am not sure I can do the burial thing again but thoughts and ideas are welcome!
(Sorry for the morbid post but we talk a lot about future planning, piggy and person in our house as OH is a geriatrics doctor and we have geriatric piggies )
I am thinking that next time I want to get them cremated but I don't know. H and Fraoch are so close I'd love them to be 'together' when the inevitable happens and that would be easier if they were cremated but equally I don't want to accumulate a little stack of boxes of ashes on my shelf (which is very likely as we like to rehome older piggies...) Any thoughts or experiences welcome. I always have plenty of photos and iusually have some pages in my scrapbook as a memento so not so worried about something to keep.
Also I work away from home most of the week, most weeks so the chances are most of the boys will pass away when I am not there but I want to be able to say goodbye to them before we have them cremated or buried. I'm not sure how feasible this is When my beautiful Stru died I was coming home the next day so it wasn't an issue but it could easily be 3-4 days til I was home....
I don't know what's the best way to make this hard time easier, all I know is I am not sure I can do the burial thing again but thoughts and ideas are welcome!
(Sorry for the morbid post but we talk a lot about future planning, piggy and person in our house as OH is a geriatrics doctor and we have geriatric piggies )