What have you done with your dogs ashes?

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Sorry it's a morbid post again. I got my little girls ashes back today, I thought I'd decided what to do which was to scatter them (I've had them back in a scatter box)

I'm not so sure now though, one of my clients brought me a beautiful heather so I've thought about burying them in the box (it's cardboard) and planting the heather above. A bit of me also wants to keep them though in the flat.

I don't know what to do!! What have you done?
 
I lost my Boomer at Easter and haven't spread his ashes yet, they are still on a shelf in my bedroom! I have thought long and hard about where to spread them, my mum suggested taking some to where I used to walk him when he was young and some here, but it doesn't seem right to split him up. I think I've decided to spread him in the front paddock where he was running (this is my vision of him in heaven running in a field) in the pic below, but haven't done it as the pony has been in this paddock and I didn't want the pony walking all over Boomer's ashes (am I mad), maybe I'll do it tomorrow as the pony has had to come in as he has slight laminitis.
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Open the box, I did Boomers, it had a lovely poem and little flowers and a smaller box that the ashes were in.
 
I still have Buffys ashes, it is 3 months since she was pts. :( I do intend to bury them, in the scatter box, next to her mum, but haven't been brave enough to do it yet. I will then probably put a nice planter on top, which I can put different plants in throughout the year, this is what I have done with her dams.
 
Two dogs, four cats and one rabbit are all still in nice caskets on the top of the hall wardrobe! I still can't bring myself to scatter or bury them, I just dust them and rearrange on occasions, I think they will stay there forever to be honest.
 
They are on my bedside table, he was my special boy and always by my side, I have never buried of scattered them I have my greyhound and my cat too, and I think I would rather we were all buried in the same box at the end.
 
I havent got the ashes for one of my "own" dogs but my favourite girl from work is in a box on the shelf in my block, next to a photo of her. I didnt want to scatter her near the rescue and hate the idea of scattering her somewhere where I may not always be able to go (if I moved away for instance).
 
I got Bosworths ashes back in a beautiful wooden box, inside a cardboard box. I didn;t dare open the cardboard box as I was convinced the ashes would just be loose inside it. A good friend opened the box and found the wooden casket inside. I lost Boz in May, I still cannot bring myself to scatter his ashes, I am considering scattering them on Dartmoor, where we had some lovely runs, but I just feel so sad about letting him go for good. At the moment I know he is still with me in the house and I am just nor ready to say good bye. I do not want to scatter them in the garden as I don;t know if we will always live here and leaving him behind would be so hard. I have a feeling he will stay with me for ever and be in my casket when I go.
 
Its a year to the week since i lost my young collie, Diva :( and then I lost my 15 year old dear Labrador in March :(

I have both their ashes in lovely wooden boxes, with their collar on top in my bedroom. It was my intention to scatter them at the beach where our favourite walk is but I cant bring myself too, still, I want them near me.
 
When we lost our Joo Joos (JRT) six years ago now, we planted a monkey puzzle tree in the garden over her ashes; and when my old boy (horse) had to be PTS the same year we planted a pear tree over him.

The only snag if growing a tree over their ashes is if you move ever. The thing you could do would be to use a pot and put the ashes in that, then plant whatever it is, then if you do move you can transport it.

I read somewhere about a firm that can make like diamonds out of either human or pets ashes, but sorry I don't know where or who. Sounds nice though, but I think its expensive.
 
Its been 9 months since Hector passed away, currently his ashes are in the nice scatter tube with a photo & his collar on a shelf in my living room. I've considered scattering them on a favourite walk as they are in public country parks so even if we moved in future we could still visit there, but at the moment i find it comforting having the ashes at home so may just get a nicer box to keep them in. Someone i know plans to keep all their dogs ashes and then when they die be scattered together.

MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
I read somewhere about a firm that can make like diamonds out of either human or pets ashes, but sorry I don't know where or who. Sounds nice though, but I think its expensive.
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They can also put them in glass objects i.e http://www.ashesintoglass.co.uk/, http://www.bathaquaglass.com/memorial-glass.html and there's jewellery which holds some of the ashes.
 
we buried our dogs body in the orchard.
it is under some apple trees where she used to lay on a hot day and watch the horses grazing.
there is a slab over the grave with a little rottie statue.
i go near it every day and think of her who we lost last christmas.
 
Having worked for a vet and have seen ashes belonging to other people's dogs, I didn't really feel squeamish about scattering ashes. But a part of me really wanted to keep them in case we moved. So with my first dog, Murphy, that I had creamated, half the ashes went under a lovely pink rose bush (which is by far the most bloom abundant of the lot in my garden). The other half are still in the urn. Corki was since PTS at the beginning of September and her ashes are sitting next to Murph's - waiting for spring when I plant a rose bush of her own for half to go (the other half will always be next to Murph's as in life they were always together).
 
My beloved springer died 2 years ago on xmas eve, I had his ashed put in to a wooden dog casket and he stays in my bedroom, it' only know I'm g to think about scattering his ashes.
 
My Scrappy died in 2003 - I put half his ashes in a pot and planted a patio rose in it, the other half of the ashes stayed in his box and they are in the wardrobe. I keep looking for a nice little casket for them, but can't seem to find one.

The rose is magnificent - its a pale pink one and flowers virtually all year round with masses of flowers. As its in a pot, it can come with me if I move.
 
I cant think about scattering mine, on the mantle piece carefully moved with the rest of the 'family' when we moved housed and I cant think I will ever pluck up the courage to scatter them. If I had somewhere settled I probably would have buried at home and not cremated and for the same reasons dont want to scatter or bury the ashes. Maybe one day when I'm convinced it will be a final resting place for us all. I'll probably end up with tonnes of little wooden boxes that end up being cremeted again with me when I pop my clogs! :p :D
 
Thanks for your replies. I thought about it overnight and I've decided to keep them at home but to still plant the heather at the field and I think I'll get a plaque to put up there also xx
 
My border collie is scattered with my husband where they used to walk almost every evening. I've moved away now but still go back when I can and I can almost see them stood looking to the hills watching the buzzards.
 
My mums last dog died 14 years ago and she still has her ashes in the house with her collar and a photo of her - we are under instruction to scatter them with mums ashes when her times comes
 
When my parents lived in Essex, mum buried her rotties ashes in the garden by their natural pond. Over the next couple of years she lost my cat and another dog. My stepfather had a ritual burying of them both, and planted a tree just prior to moving back to Yorkshire (didn't want to leave the rottie on his own)
I currently have one of my other cats ashes in his box - he was PTS 3 1/2 years ago and has moved house with us. My mums horse is in his wicker basket and has been in the hallway for the last 4 years :-) she will bury his ashes eventually, but she finds it quite comforting knowing he's there...
 
We scattered Windsor's ashes down at the first (and his most favourite place) to work :) which was down on the shore of Strangford Lough. We kept the box that the ashes came back in, the vet had put a name plate on it and there was a place to insert a picture so there is a lovely picture of M with his arm around Windsor, M with a big grin on his face and Windsor panting so it looks like he is smiling :)
 
I had Bill pts about a month ago. His ashes are sat in the bag they came in on the landing where his bed used to be.

I have ordered a standard rose that will be delivered this month or next and bought a large container for it to go in; that way if we move he will come with us; although my other dogs ashes are scattered in the back garden, it didn't seem right for Bill.
 
We've only had the last 2 or 3 cremated, they've all been buried in mum and dad's garden with the others and have various plants or trees.

My auntie has all of hers still and I've been given strict instructions on where she wants to be scattered with them when it comes to it.

Slightly different, my uncle still has my grandad's ashes on his desk at home, he's been gone 14years :o
 
We burried Lola in the garden last week. OH was adamant that he wanted to bring her home and bury her, but I would have preferred to have her cremated.

I hate to think that she will be left here when we move one day.
 
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