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| FLITASTIC - 2015-04-10 1:22 PM
Its funny here in CA, I can bury my 1300 pound horse, but NOT a human. Weird.
This kind of made me laugh.
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I had mine cremated, so I don't know - but I was told as long as you didn't euthanize them it's fine? |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| I'm pretty sure here you aren't supposed to bury them. I've got 2 in the corner of the back yard. We didn't ask, we just called the neighbor with backhoe. He knows how it goes, and he doesn't charge anything either, which is nice. He lets his kids (teens) practice digging with the backhoe. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I'm thankful to live in place where it would never occur to anyone to ask if it was legal. |
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Posts: 9159
Location: Arkansas | Three 4 Luck - 2015-04-10 12:56 PM
I'm thankful to live in place where it would never occur to anyone to ask if it was legal.
There are some benefits to our "backwoods" state!! (I like where I live, but from all the griping I hear everyday I'm in the minority.)
Edited by Chandler's Mom 2015-04-11 1:18 AM
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 Having Smokin Bandits
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Location: Woodstown, NJ | Oh God, it was such a project burying our dogs, I couldn't imagine burying one of our horses. I would worry about animals trying to dig them up like someone said happened to her horse and I would worry about the well, even though someone else said it would be fine. I'm just going to concentrate on giving them the best possible life I can now and call whoever is cheapest to come over and take them away when they die. They couldn't care less. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I don't think its as much of an issue as you think; if your county allows it. I am in an unorganized township and the rules are very lenient and have buried animals before. I just drilled a new well a few years ago and the only thing I was asked was how far away from my septic bed it would be and it only had to be 100 feet for a dug well and 50 for a deep well.... I think if a septic system only had to be that far away and it's constant a horse who will decompose faster isn't as much of an issue. I have 400+ acres and I have a spot I put my pets and horses on ... it's on a hill overlooking their farm, it's only about 500 feet away from my well, so far I have buried one horse, a dog, 2 rabbits, 2 cats and a parrot. I have a few oldies that are getting close too and it sucks to see them go  |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | americanpride08 - 2015-04-09 10:58 AM I've always wondered if you could have a horse cremated. . . But I guess that would probably smell aweful. As human remains are cremated after the organs are removed, soo....
My horse is cremated and lives in a huge popcorn container next to the fireplace. I could tell it was mine because her horse shoes are on top and she had super special shoes because she had such terrible feet. |
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| My husbands uncle was a geologist and his study was specifically in ground water contamination. He told us there are so many variables but basically he said our 5 horses would have to pee over our well every day in the same spot for 80 years before it would reach our water. Our pump is set at 80 feet and our well bottoms out at 300. We are in a dry climate so there is not a lot of moisture to carry the liquid down. I would think if you had ample amount of property, your water level isn't very high and you buried the horse a good distance away, your well be fine! |
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 BHW New Catch of the Day
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Location: Missouri | I have 2 buried on 5 acres and I didn't ask if it was okay, I just did it. |
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Cold hands and Warm Heart
Location: oklahoma | We put lime on top of our dogs buried and if we have it, a piece of tin or something to stop something from digging, but the lime will deter them and aid in decomposing. Our only horse to pass recently is in on 20 acres along with the others that passed, 15 feet down.
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