[Dailydrool] POST ON CREMATION

[R Groves]

> I partially read it but thought to myself - there's 
> no way anybody who loved their pet could possibly do 
> that themselves. Won't say anymore. It was a mistake 
> - computer age - a click and it's gone!

And I'm thinking the opposite.

Sure, there are people paid to do this at a crematorium ... but how many
times have we heard on the news in just the last year or two, some
crematorium mixing cremains, or some horrible people that have buried
several to a grave, or have had remains left above ground because it was too
expensive to open the ground, etc..

We talk about being there when we have our hounds PTS, but it concerns me
that some think that people would treat Hound remains any better than
humans, what's to say the crematorium actually respected you and your hound,
giving them the proper treatment in those last moments?

Yes, maybe the cremation post was a bit more detailed than needed and maybe
could have used less detail, more emotion ... etc... but the fact remains,
the best person to care for our hounds, now and in death, is us.  No one
else along that path has the connection with the hound as you do.  No one
would be as gentle as you in laying your hound to rest, because your hound
meant so very much to you...

Had I the stomach, the strength, the ability to endure, I would want to do
this (and do so properly) for my boys .. because I know that its not over at
the table, and I want them to be handled with the care and respect they
deserve.

-Robert