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For those that remember ..... I had to have my beloved GSD shane pts last year .....Its just over a year now .

He was buried in my mums back yard .

Heres the thing ......

My mum is having an extension put onto the house due to my step father needing it .

The plans of the extension have shown that part of the wall will be on top of shanes grave .

Mum has been relatively sad and is wondering would it be possible to remove him and place him somewhere else in the garden .

I know for sure that I couldn't do it, Hubbie has offered to do it if its possible .

Question is ..... How decomposed would the body be of a dog just after a year ?
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Not sure how sensitive i can be but it really depends on the soil and what he was buried in.

I would say not much more than bones and some fur and probably a rather bad smell and some bugs.

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Thanks
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He was basically buried in his sleeping bag that he loved to lay in which is foam/wool lining and cotton then put into a liner bag .

He was just too big for a box plus he was fitted under a large slab about 4 foot down .

Soil wise ..... hmmm just plain muck/soil quite stoney I would say
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.... Sorry not great at explaining soil
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lol .

My mum would ideally like to move him to the bottom of the garden .
 
I'm guessing it's not particularly warm and dry in your part of the world?

I'd imagine that you would find largely bone, with possibly a small amount of other matter such as tendons, as these take slightly longer to decompose. If you buried him in a bag or container then there may be some fluid, and if so then this will be what causes any potential smell.

Given the length of time, there won't be any great quantity of 'other matter' there, so it shouldn't be an icky job to do, just understandably upsetting.

Sorry for being grim
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I'm guessing it's not particularly warm and dry in your part of the world?

I'd imagine that you would find largely bone, with possibly a small amount of other matter such as tendons, as these take slightly longer to decompose. If you buried him in a bag or container then there may be some fluid, and if so then this will be what causes any potential smell.

Given the length of time, there won't be any great quantity of 'other matter' there, so it shouldn't be an icky job to do, just understandably upsetting.

Sorry for being grim
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Its ok honestly
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Thanks for that appreciat it x
 
Ok, I'm going to bite the bullet here and yes you can paint me as a weirdo...
When my beloved dog passed away we buried her in the garden. After just over a year things changed and we sold the house. I couldn't bear to part with her so, yes, I dug her up and took her to my parents house to be reburied with her friends.
She was wrapped in her blanket which had become quite thread bare and did smell horrendous. Thankfully most of her had decomposed and it was mainly bone.
This most upsetting part is that you have to remember that the bones are no longer joined together so may have to collected individually.
Sorry.
 
Just a thought, but would it be a nice idea to plant a tree at the bottom of the garden in commeration of your buried dog rather than actually digging him up?
 
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