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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
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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.
Edited by Prndi 2014-01-05 4:47 PM
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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.
Hugs o you and I hope it's a long time before you have to let go. |
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The Advice Guru
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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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I Am a Snake Killer
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | You don't have a vet that cremates? |
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 I Don't Brag
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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)
Posts: 1937
| 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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Love the Worn and Ugly (Saddles)
Posts: 1937
| 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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