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| If burying wasn't a feasible option, how would you feel about sending to the rendering plant. I want my animals buried at home where I can visit the spot or plant a tree. But if were to have to do it right now with the frozen ground I couldn't. How do ya'll feel about this or do you care to share stories ?
Eta- I may be facing this soon, that's why I'm posting, but I'm hoping not.
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Location: Midwest | plenty around my area have done it. especially in the winter.
Not everyone has a backhoe or the ability to dig that large of a hole, so sometimes that is the only option. |
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| Prndi - 2014-01-05 4:41 PM
If burying wasn't a feasible option, how would you feel about sending to the rendering plant. I want my animals buried at home where I can visit the spot or plant a tree. But if were to have to do it right now with the frozen ground I couldn't. How do ya'll feel about this or do you care to share stories ?
I have done it. My thoughts are, they are gone. What is left is their "shell". I remember their life and "spirit" (for lack of a better term). Maybe it's my outlook, my family seems to lean heavily toward cremation, too. I have kept shoes and tail hair for momentos. |
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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
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| bennie1 - 2014-01-05 5:48 PM
Prndi - 2014-01-05 4:41 PM
If burying wasn't a feasible option, how would you feel about sending to the rendering plant. I want my animals buried at home where I can visit the spot or plant a tree. But if were to have to do it right now with the frozen ground I couldn't. How do ya'll feel about this or do you care to share stories ?
I have done it. My thoughts are, they are gone. What is left is their "shell". I remember their life and "spirit" (for lack of a better term ). Maybe it's my outlook, my family seems to lean heavily toward cremation, too. I have kept shoes and tail hair for momentos.
Thank you. It makes me feel better to see that written and I need to remind myself of that if I'm not able to bury at home. |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | I send mine to the local zoo for lion food.
Some say I'm cruel for that, but it is an empty body. I keep momentos such as horse hair or something. |
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Location: In the wrong place at the wrong time | I just had to do it 3 weeks ago with my old gelding. It was tough I would have much preferred to bury him him on my property but it's illegal here and I have neighbors that would have reported me. I just kept reminding myself that he was no longer in his body and I also saved mane and tail hair to have made into jewelry.
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| I have had one die n the winter, I live in Alberta so we have really cold winter, we trapped him till spring then buried him, the coyotes and wolves left him alone. |
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Location: on my horse | bennie1 - 2014-01-05 3:48 PM
Prndi - 2014-01-05 4:41 PM
If burying wasn't a feasible option, how would you feel about sending to the rendering plant. I want my animals buried at home where I can visit the spot or plant a tree. But if were to have to do it right now with the frozen ground I couldn't. How do ya'll feel about this or do you care to share stories ?
I have done it. My thoughts are, they are gone. What is left is their "shell". I remember their life and "spirit" (for lack of a better term ). Maybe it's my outlook, my family seems to lean heavily toward cremation, too. I have kept shoes and tail hair for momentos.
Exactly. That's what I've always done too and have had to send them off to rendering. |
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| I was renting a small place, 3 acres, and had to put my beloved horse down. I could not find a backhoe to dig a hole, so had to use the rendering truck. Once he was gone and it was the next day with no other way to handle his body, it wasn't such a bad thing to do. As others say, he is no longer in that body. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | You don't have a vet that cremates? |
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| Since we can,we bury. And I will as long as we can and hope that the ground is not frozen solid when the need arises.
That being said, like another said, they are no longer there so there is no real issue with the rendering truck or zoo food or dragging them out for the coyotes to take care of.......but not MY ponies if I can help it.
On the other hand I have told hubby and family that if something happens to me, donate any usedable parts and cremate the rest. I won't be using it anymore. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | For me personally I can't do it. If they are getting to the end of their life I put them down in the fall before the ground freezes and they are buried on my place. We did lose my daughters old mare a few years ago in January. We covered her with lots of hay and straw and burned her. It was more comforting for me to do that than let the rendering truck take her. |
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| CYA Ranch - 2014-01-05 5:50 PM
For me personally I can't do it. If they are getting to the end of their life I put them down in the fall before the ground freezes and they are buried on my place. We did lose my daughters old mare a few years ago in January. We covered her with lots of hay and straw and burned her. It was more comforting for me to do that than let the rendering truck take her.
Same here, I think the burning idea is a good one if you can't dig a hole. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | It sucks but you do what you have to. I lost a stud last spring to laminitis. They put him down at the vets and then to satisfy the insurance company, they had to chop off his front feet and send them to the state vet lab. They told insurance the degree of rotation which made insurance think it was a pre exisiting condition, who knows, could have been...and then refused to pay. Hell if I had known they wouldn't have paid, I would have just put him down at my house and buried him. |
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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
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| I have never heard of that. I don't get out much and have always had to put one down in the summer so never had to think of this. How would I go about doing this? Just hay and straw or do you use an accelerant too? I can't even get newspaper to burn, so if I did this if need all the information I could gather. I would send to a zoo and take care of the animals needs there but the closest one is many hours away. |
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| mreklaw - 2014-01-05 6:41 PM
You don't have a vet that cremates?
They might, I haven't had the conversation yet. Is it common for a smaller- scale large animal facility to cremate? Its $300 to cremate a dog at my small animal vet. I can only imagine the cost of cremating a horse. |
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Location: Prosser, WA | I had to use a rendering truck for my favorite old mare. It sucked but it really is just a body. She had to lay out there a few days until they could come too. We had only lived here a month. So we didn't even know where it would be safe to dig, plus I think it is illegal. Really wish I could have buried her at my parents, but didn't have a way to even load her on a flatbed. Plus I really didn't want to drive an hour on the freeway with my dead horse. Out of the blue she had a heart attack and died. I feel for you. |
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Location: Illinois | I lost my most favorite mare foaling years ago. It was still frozen so we couldn't bury her. We hauled her to the University and at that time if you pay for necropsy, it includes cremation. So that's what I did. I think at that time it was like $100 maybe. |
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Location: Texas! | Phxbarrel - 2014-01-05 4:05 PM I send mine to the local zoo for lion food. Some say I'm cruel for that, but it is an empty body. I keep momentos such as horse hair or something.
I'm guessing you do not have them euthenized? Since feeding them if they had been put down with injection would kill the lions...My boyfriend has a buddy who uses their horses for bear bait...Just walks them to their bait spot and shoots them..I couldn't imagine but like others have said its just a shell and I guess its free bait...ick though. |
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Location: Texas | My grandpa's land is where we bury our horses. My child hood horse, his 35 year old ranch horse, and a filly that I had such high hopes for and lost as a 2 year old. There have been times (especially before he had that place) that we didn't have anywhere to bury them and had to send them off. I tell myself that having them buried there is more for me then them. They aren't "here" anymore, it just helps give me peace of mind. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | purplemoon828 - 2014-01-05 5:53 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-01-05 5:50 PM For me personally I can't do it. If they are getting to the end of their life I put them down in the fall before the ground freezes and they are buried on my place. We did lose my daughters old mare a few years ago in January. We covered her with lots of hay and straw and burned her. It was more comforting for me to do that than let the rendering truck take her. Same here, I think the burning idea is a good one if you can't dig a hole.
What bones were left in the spring we then buried. My dad used to burn them too. We have way too many coyotes around plus our own dogs. I dread losing those good old friends. |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | I lost a broodmare in 2013 the night she foaled out and i REALLY loved this mare already even though I only had her a short time. Unfortunately i dont have a big ranch to have a burial for my horses. So she was picked up. I kept some of her mane and tail hair. and I of course still have the foal she delivered the night we lost her.
I feel once they are gone they are gone, their body is nothing more than a body that had a spirit/soul/heart (what have you) in it.
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| Call Your Dept Of Agriculture. Dogs And Cats Are Much More Expensive, Considering Their Size. A Few Years Ago, I Had The rendering Truck Take One, It Was $275, A Friend Had One Cremated By The Dep Of Ag, And Was Around $350. My Little Goat Was Around $200 At The Local Funeral Parlor. Get Prices, Before You Make Your Decisions, A More Tolerable Option May Not Be A Significant Difference In Price. I Wish I Was asware Of Other Options When I Had To Make My Disposal Choices. Sorry You Are Having To Go Tbrough This. |
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Location: Texas! | Amazing Grace - 2014-01-05 8:37 PM Call Your Dept Of Agriculture. Dogs And Cats Are Much More Expensive, Considering Their Size. A Few Years Ago, I Had The rendering Truck Take One, It Was $275, A Friend Had One Cremated By The Dep Of Ag, And Was Around $350. My Little Goat Was Around $200 At The Local Funeral Parlor. Get Prices, Before You Make Your Decisions, A More Tolerable Option May Not Be A Significant Difference In Price. I Wish I Was asware Of Other Options When I Had To Make My Disposal Choices. Sorry You Are Having To Go Tbrough This.
Not to be OT lol but do you capitalize all your words on your own or is it a phone typo? lol Sorry just thought it looked like it would take a long time to type!
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| WYOracer - 2014-01-05 10:49 PM
Amazing Grace - 2014-01-05 8:37 PM Call Your Dept Of Agriculture. Dogs And Cats Are Much More Expensive, Considering Their Size. A Few Years Ago, I Had The rendering Truck Take One, It Was $275, A Friend Had One Cremated By The Dep Of Ag, And Was Around $350. My Little Goat Was Around $200 At The Local Funeral Parlor. Get Prices, Before You Make Your Decisions, A More Tolerable Option May Not Be A Significant Difference In Price. I Wish I Was asware Of Other Options When I Had To Make My Disposal Choices. Sorry You Are Having To Go Tbrough This.
Not to be OT lol but do you capitalize all your words on your own or is it a phone typo? lol Sorry just thought it looked like it would take a long time to type!
No, I Dont Capitalize Any Of Them. I Dont Know How To Make It Stop. For That Matter, I Dont Know How I Made It Start. Its Visually Offensive. I Also Dont Make A Space Between The First Two Lines, Does That On Its Own Too. If Anyone Knows How To Stop It, I'd Love To know. |
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| redmansmyman11 - 2014-01-05 3:19 PM
bennie1 - 2014-01-05 3:48 PM
Prndi - 2014-01-05 4:41 PM
If burying wasn't a feasible option, how would you feel about sending to the rendering plant. I want my animals buried at home where I can visit the spot or plant a tree. But if were to have to do it right now with the frozen ground I couldn't. How do ya'll feel about this or do you care to share stories ?
I have done it. My thoughts are, they are gone. What is left is their "shell". I remember their life and "spirit" (for lack of a better term ). Maybe it's my outlook, my family seems to lean heavily toward cremation, too. I have kept shoes and tail hair for momentos.
Exactly. That's what I've always done too and have had to send them off to rendering.
I have done this too, and while I hate it there is a man in Southern California who specializes in " dignified disposal" of large animal carcasses. While he is more expensive than the dirty, gross people who usually drive the rendering trucks...or even worse...the guy that shows up in a Dodge diesel truck with NO trailer. I wondered at first how he was going to get the horse up there if he had no trailer. I will NOT use him again!
I also agree that my horse is "gone" and freed from the body that I knew and loved, yet trapped them in age, pain, or both. I remind myself that while it may not be ideal, when the day comes for me to be released of MY old or painful body, the horses that have passed will be whole, healthy, and happy. And they will ALL be waiting for me on the other side.  |
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Location: Texas! | Amazing Grace - 2014-01-05 9:01 PM WYOracer - 2014-01-05 10:49 PM Amazing Grace - 2014-01-05 8:37 PM Call Your Dept Of Agriculture. Dogs And Cats Are Much More Expensive, Considering Their Size. A Few Years Ago, I Had The rendering Truck Take One, It Was $275, A Friend Had One Cremated By The Dep Of Ag, And Was Around $350. My Little Goat Was Around $200 At The Local Funeral Parlor. Get Prices, Before You Make Your Decisions, A More Tolerable Option May Not Be A Significant Difference In Price. I Wish I Was asware Of Other Options When I Had To Make My Disposal Choices. Sorry You Are Having To Go Tbrough This. Not to be OT lol but do you capitalize all your words on your own or is it a phone typo? lol Sorry just thought it looked like it would take a long time to type!
No, I Dont Capitalize Any Of Them. I Dont Know How To Make It Stop. For That Matter, I Dont Know How I Made It Start. Its Visually Offensive. I Also Dont Make A Space Between The First Two Lines, Does That On Its Own Too. If Anyone Knows How To Stop It, I'd Love To know.
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Location: Kansas | I contacted a place that cremated horses when my old guy started getting some age on him. This was within the last two years. It would have cost $1,000 to have him cremated. I ended up having to put him down last July, so he was buried.
ETA-This is who I contacted...http://www.petcremationkc.com/Our_Pricing.php
And, as far as your original question, I think you do what you have to do. I've had to send one to the rendering plant before. I just wasn't there when the truck came.
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Location: Texas! | The only crematory here won't do horses, because she would have to cut them up and doesn't want to deal with that. I do know that there is a place in Colorado that cremates horses...I bet our vet lab does also...Check with your State Vet Lab maybe if it isn't too far? |
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Location: Alberta | For those that would consider cremation for their horse, dog, cat etc. make sure to check that your animal is the only one being done at that time. A friend was going to have her cat cremated and was making the final arrangements and the person she was dealing with slipped up and told her it would be a few days till he was done as they wait for a few animals to be done and do it all at once. I would be ticked if I paid that much money and ended up with part of my animal plus someone elses dog and rat and whatever else in a jar on my mantle!! Lol I know it's just ashes but still for $500 it better just be my animal beng done by itself. |
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Location: Phoenix | Amazing Grace - 2014-01-05 8:01 PM WYOracer - 2014-01-05 10:49 PM Amazing Grace - 2014-01-05 8:37 PM No, I Dont Capitalize Any Of Them. I Dont Know How To Make It Stop. For That Matter, I Dont Know How I Made It Start. Its Visually Offensive. I Also Dont Make A Space Between The First Two Lines, Does That On Its Own Too. If Anyone Knows How To Stop It, I'd Love To know.
But this thread had me about crying.
We've always been able to bury ours on our property. I get sad thinking about taking my horses' hair for the last time. :( |
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Location: North MS | Couldn't send one off. Even had to have a pet cow put down once. She ended up being similarly covered and burned as she had become seriously ill in an area we couldn't get a backhoe to. As far as cremation- I don't know of any around here that even have a crematorium. There is a private service advertised at a vets office but i've only noticed it being mentioned for cats and dogs. It would possibly be offered at Mississippi State University but I do not know for sure. Sadly they have given several of my friends the sad hair momentos. Sweet and sad at the same time.
But as far as the fire issue- for forestry controlled burns we use 1/3 gasoline and 2/3 diesel to avoid the "fast flash fires". Typically it starts and lingers to allow more items to catch on fire in the woods. You might try adding small sticks, hardwood mulch and firewood around. Others may have a better guide to doing this. Bless you for thinking in advance though. |
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Location: Texas | Had to make that decision during winter. Didn't want my beloved old stud to suffer till I could bury him. We didn't have any cremation companies. I saved his mane and tail hair. Eventually what really helped me come to terms with it was realizing that this was an unfortunate part of horse ownership for many horse lovers. |
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| I have no issues with having a renderer come and get my horse AFTER it has been put down.
That is a fact of life. I will be honest-I would rather do that than bury it.
We have a renderer in our area and that is what the majority of people do. For $80.00 (then you get $40 reimbursed to you from the extension office) you can have it done. The extension office does this so that people don't run the risk of polluting water sources, because nine times out of ten horses are not buried properly. |
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| If you have a vet school near by, maybe look into taking the horse, watching them put it down and then donate the body to the school.
I wouldn't just drop it off. I would first make sure the horse was put down. Not saying that you can't trust them... but I would just feel better doing it the way I described. |
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Location: N Texas | CEFERG - 2014-01-05 11:46 PM
For those that would consider cremation for their horse, dog, cat etc. make sure to check that your animal is the only one being done at that time. A friend was going to have her cat cremated and was making the final arrangements and the person she was dealing with slipped up and told her it would be a few days till he was done as they wait for a few animals to be done and do it all at once. I would be ticked if I paid that much money and ended up with part of my animal plus someone elses dog and rat and whatever else in a jar on my mantle!! Lol I know it's just ashes but still for $500 it better just be my animal beng done by itself.
My sister had one of her animals cremated last year, and the guy who did it assured her that each animal was done individually, and that the ashes she got back would be the right ones. That was her main concern...she didn't want her animal's ashes mixed in with a lot of other random animals. I know people can say what they want, but be sure to research the company if you choose cremation. |
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Location: N Texas | I wanted to add that you do what you have to do, and don't beat yourself up over it. If people want to give you a hard time about not burying your horse, then ask them when they'll be coming over with their shovel.  |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | SKM - 2014-01-06 6:21 AM
If you have a vet school near by, maybe look into taking the horse, watching them put it down and then donate the body to the school.
I wouldn't just drop it off. I would first make sure the horse was put down. Not saying that you can't trust them... but I would just feel better doing it the way I described.
That is a great idea. And it is also a good time while it is NOT an issue for those of us reading- to look into the options so we can make a clear headed decision if we ever have to in the future. |
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Location: Somewhere in Mommyland | We just went thru this with my husbands old rope horse. We're under contract for 2 years in this house and even though we have 5 acres, burying him was not an option. My husband was out of town when I had his horse euthanized. When he asked if I buried him I said no, had to call the rendering truck. He broke down in tears :( But like others have said and what I told my husband, he was gone. It was just his body. I don't like the idea but it's a reality of horse ownership. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | im one of the lucky ones that has the space and the means to bury one at home and thats what i will always do............
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Location: Carpenter, WY | When Slim died he was down in Ft. Collins at CSU. We had him cremated and buried his ashed under his barn window. It really wasn't that expensive to have done..like 250 or there abouts. I don't think I could have beared having him sent to a rendering plant. Have 4 buried out by the arena that passed during spring and summer, but cremation if it's an option is the way to go. Your vet should know if it's a service offered in your area.
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Location: MN | TurnLane - 2014-01-06 2:25 PM
SKM - 2014-01-06 6:21 AM
If you have a vet school near by, maybe look into taking the horse, watching them put it down and then donate the body to the school.
I wouldn't just drop it off. I would first make sure the horse was put down. Not saying that you can't trust them... but I would just feel better doing it the way I described.
That is a great idea. And it is also a good time while it is NOT an issue for those of us reading- to look into the options so we can make a clear headed decision if we ever have to in the future.
Exactly! And I wish this conversation came up one day sooner! My husband's dog was found dead yesterday morning. It was sudden and a shock. He was the world to hubby. Burying wasn't an option (MN!) and he wasn't comfortable stowing some where to freeze outside for the time being. Hubby was going to bury in shavings to decompose, but I found a place and took him for cremation. Now thinking about it, body as a shell is good perspective.
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Location: Buffalo, TX | I've given this a lot of thought lately because I will be facing that sooner or later myself.....
I have a 35 yr. old mare that I've owned since she was 3, and even though she's in pretty good shape now, I know I could find her dead at any time.....best case scenario for me is that I can haul her up to Dr. Powers and have her put down if she is starting to suffer.....I really don't want to have to call the rendering truck.....but if she goes down here, that's what I'll have to do because I already have one buried here and my ground is so hard that it almost didn't happen, so I can't try to do that again....I feel like the others here.....it would be just the shell of her body....but I still don't like it and I sure couldn't watch it....but it would be my only option too.... |
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Location: Buffalo, TX | teehaha - 2014-01-06 3:55 PM When Slim died he was down in Ft. Collins at CSU. We had him cremated and buried his ashed under his barn window. It really wasn't that expensive to have done..like 250 or there abouts. I don't think I could have beared having him sent to a rendering plant. Have 4 buried out by the arena that passed during spring and summer, but cremation if it's an option is the way to go. Your vet should know if it's a service offered in your area.
The truck around here doesn't take them to a rendering plant.....they take them to a dump site...still not pretty, I know.....not a lot of options.....sad. |
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Location: Kansas | When my old horse hit 24, I started thinking about what I was going to do with him because I knew I would be a mess when the time came. If the ground was frozen, he was getting hauled to Kansas City to be cremated and, if the ground was thawed, I had a friend who would let me bury him in her pasture. Last summer, at the age of 27, the time came to put him down and I'm really glad I had everything planned out ahead of time. I called my friend, who called the backhoe. It was about a four hour drive to her house and, by the time I got there, the hole was dug. She and my husband did the actual burying while I stayed at the house. I am SO glad I had this all figured out ahead of time because I most definitely was a mess when the time came. |
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| Prndi - 2014-01-05 6:20 PM
mreklaw - 2014-01-05 6:41 PM
You don't have a vet that cremates?
They might, I haven't had the conversation yet. Is it common for a smaller- scale large animal facility to cremate? Its $300 to cremate a dog at my small animal vet. I can only imagine the cost of cremating a horse.
Our small vet clinic doesn't offer cremation for horses. The closest plant is more than four hours away. They send small animals there for cremation but horses are out of the question.
I feel for you. That is emotionally tough BUT I would rather send them to render than take them to the dump. If you don't have ten acres or good neighbors that won't tell in our valley your only option is the dump.
At least with rendering they are serving a purpose. (I know burying doesn't have a purpose other than to make us feel better but I would rather put one in the ground and grow a tree than haul it to the dump.)
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Location: 31 lengths farms | When I had to have my mare put down about 4 years ago, the vet looked around said "do you have a backhoe?" yes sir. Then he said "I don't see a well near by..." nope. He says "Okay, then, I was never here." Thank you God!!! We have made it a tradition as we pull out of our yard with the horses to honk to her and my other old mare who is buried on the property also several years before that, They are still very much part of my life. I am very lucky to live where it isn't an issue as far as ground and tools necessary to take care of the task. |
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Location: Stephenville, TX | I had to do it. Sometimes it's the only thing you can do.
I had a horse die suddenly away from home, late at night. We dragged her out of the arena and stashed her in another building under a tarp, but the facility wanted me to do something by the next morning. So I didn't have a chance to look into cremation and burial wasn't an option. I got her shoes and tail hair (both of which I unfortunately don't have anymore) but I do have her halter (I've got it hanging in my leather shop), her competition bridle and memories. That's enough for me.
Even if you bury them, technically their body still "goes away" eventually.
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Location: Washington | What I hope you are gathering from this thread Prndi, there is not a right or a wrong way to say good-bye to our equines. We do the best for them in their life, and you do what you can in their death. Remember they are gone. |
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| Cremation is expensive, but is an option |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | I personally couldn't do it. There is nothing wrong with it and I like donating it to the zoo better than just sending it off. Like another poster said, the burying is more for me than for them. If I didn't have another option then I would do what I had to do. |
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Euthanasia and sending beloved horse off in rendering truck. Thoughts please?