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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 17:09:43 -0400, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~"
wrote: Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln My Mother is 88 years old. It is her desire to be cremated, when the time comes. Since my Father was a WWII veteran, she is entitled to be buried in the local National Cemetery, with him. He died in 1980 She has already chosen a fairly plain wooden box for her 'cremains'. Since it will be buried, rather than displayed, it is a fairly plain, painted wooden box. I believe she said it cost about $20., when she bought it about 10 years ago. The funeral industry, even for pets, is as corrupt and greedy as any in the world. They try to take advantage of people who are extremely vulnerable, and perhaps not able to make good decisions. I handled a lot of my Father's arrangements, and one man repeatedly tried shoving documents in my face, in an attempt to get me to sign for expensive services. He would say 'I need you to sign these forms', and then would get upset when i insisted on reading them. I repeatedly took them from him, and tore them up, and threw them away. I tried to have him removed from the room, repeatedly, but it turned out he was the owner of the funeral home. So, the phrase 'Just shut the **** up, Shylock' was also repeatedly heard. I am under no obligation to be polite to money grubbing, lying ass****s, who are trying to exploit me, and my poor widowed Mother. Sometime about 5 years after my Father died, my state enacted new laws to try to 'protect' people from dishonest funeral directors. But, if they can get you to sign a legal document, by lying and saying it is for 'transport of the body', when it is REALLY for thousands of dollars of unwanted services, legally, you are bound to pay, unless you can prove in court, weeks or months later, that you were defrauded. Usually, it is only your word against theirs. My Father taught me NEVER to sign ANTHING, without reading it first. A valuable lesson that I'm glad I did not forget. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^ "Life without cats IS only marginally worth living." -TC, in loving memory of the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. Every day was a treasure with Kenzie; I tried to treat them that way. There would only be so many, and now, there will never, ever, be any more How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
"~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" wrote in message ... Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln eBay usually has a selection of memorial urns for pets--much cheaper than that. MaryL |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
On Nov 4, 2:48*am, ingold1234[at]yahoo[dot]com (Gandalf) wrote:
I am under no obligation to be polite to money grubbing, lying ass****s, who are trying to exploit me, and my poor widowed Mother. Many years ago our next door neighbour died- she had never married so her family comprised a sister and her nephew who lived in the North of England and as her sister wasn't in the best of health they asked my mum if she could organise the funeral for them. The lady who died had stipulated in her will that she wanted a basic funeral so my mum bore that in mind. She walked out of the first undertaker's she went to after the guy assumed she was organising a funeral for her mother and when she asked to see the cheapest coffin they had tried to emotionally blackmail (he said things like "Surely you love your mother enough to give her the best" and "People will think you don't care about your own mother if her coffin isn't just that bit special") into buying something more expensive She said it didn't affect her at all but she could imagine it might work on someone who was grieving and not at their best emotionally Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
I ended up getting this one. 'Had to get the 'medium one' ($113.00 plus
shipping). I chose the Walnut finish and the engraving on front says: HAPPY "My Biggest Boy" In Loving Memory 5-4-97 to 11-1-10 http://www.peturncatalog.com/catalog...aa48318b1c0d5d ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" wrote in message ... Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
Just my little tale on this subject.
I had Jazz cremated when he went to the RB. The cost of the entire procedure was $250 including a beautiful wooden box with a brass plate in front with his name JAZZ on it. It now sits in its place of honor on the mantelpiece. He will go with us wherever we go too. Lily & her mama "Yowie" wrote in message ... "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" wrote in message ... Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! Thatsd just gouging folks. There are plenty of containers that will do the job of an urn. There are even urns that aren't 'urns for the dead' that are available. Its just a matter of looking. Pottery places, and of all places, garden wholesalers, have great urns, and no $500 price tag either. Shmoggleberry's & Fluffy's ashes (each cost $150 to cremate) came in a sealed plastic bag, placed in a tastefully decorated cardboard box. The boxes 'live' in my wardrobe - I dont' want to put them in an urn in case someone or more likely somecat knocked them off and spilt the contents. Joel wants to sprinkle Fluffy's ashes on the veggie garden, but I want the ashes kept with us wherever we go. I also can't imagine *splitting* the ashes so that half goes ont eh veggie patch and half stays with us. that somehow seems.... wrong. I know logically that its just dust and it doesn't matter, and yet.... well, you folks udnerstand. Yowie -- Irulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time. |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
On Nov 3, 6:04*pm, "Granby" wrote:
When I needed such a thing, I found a pretty basket with a lid and put the bag with the ashes in it until I did something with them. *A neighbor used a metal "Milk Bone" can she got around Christmas for her poodle dog. *There are many thins that work and maybe have more meaning than the fancy ones Fritzie's ashes were returned to us in a plain but very handsome rosewood box, and Odessa-Doll's in a pretty black tin with little flowers painted around it. We commited their ashes to running water, as is Sikh custom, returning the last earthly remains to Nature after the soul has ascended. In Fritzie's box we put the rose petals from the bouquet the vet sent. Odessa received a mixed bouquet, so we put one of each type of flower or plant included in the bunch. In Fritzie's, we also placed the ornament our vet made of his paw print; in Dolly's, the green collar she wore when she came to us and one of her favorite toys, a nice natural-bristle makeup brush. When Sabrina goes, we will have her cremated with her beloved wool pieces she still likes to sleep on. Louie has an unusual last request, and one which will land me in jail. He wants his ashes put into a barrel-shaped receptacle and put over Niagara Falls! I told him only if he does it for me too. Blessed be, Baha |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
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"~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" wrote: Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! At those kinds of prices you could probably commission a custom piece from a local ceramics artisan or woodworker and possibly have a one-of-a-kind. The trick, of course, is to find them, but they're definitely out there. -- minnow ^..^ http://twitter.com/taheenahana http://www.flickr.com/photos/minnow/ |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
We buried Bandit, Hunter, and Percy* in our back yard (with Percy, we had to
ask the permission of the previous owner since they weren't due to move out for a couple of weeks - she was really nice about it and even came out and held hands with us and offered a prayer for his departed soul (she and her husband were both ministers.0). I did this thinking that we would live out the rest of our lives here and be close enough to just walk outside and visit their little gravestones (not to be facetious, but my son thinks that's creepy in a Stephan King's "Pet Cemetery" sort of way). Back then I would never have dreamed we'd ever have to give up the house and leave them behind. * We had Percy for only a very, very short time. He was being fostered by the "SunSmart" no-kill shelter that sets up inside of PetsMart - as we walked by he stuck out his way between the bars of his cage to tap on my arm. He was a classically beautiful Persian, and the ladies there said they thought he was about 3 years old. We brought him to the vet for a clean bill of health before we even brought him into the house and clowder, and the vet said that he'd be willing to bet that Percy was more like 15 or 16 years old. The adoption ladies said that he was kept as a "stud" in a horrendous backyard breeder, in a small cage that they only let him out of to put him into a female cat in heat (and those hands did no petting or caressing, just rough handling as he was thrown into the cage of the female. He was so adapted to his "life" in the cage that he found it hard to walk around outside of it. He kept crouched down when he walked and had agoraphobia - large, unbound places were terrifying to him, and he had *NO* idea what it meant to just play. DH and I made complete fools of ourselves, dancing and laughing and clapping, when he finally tried tapping a jingle ball across the floor and then chased after it - probably the first time he had ever run in his long but utterly miserable existence. Less than two months later he had kidney failure. Constant subcutaneous hydration might have kept him alive for a few more weeks, but those weeks would be lived in constant pain. So, after the vet hydrated him, we brought him home, gently playing with him when he was up for it, smothering him with love and pettin's and skritches until he started going downhill again quickly. Then we brought him back to the vet to give him one last gift - freedom from the pain, and a infinite universe in which to run and play and be happy until we come to join him. In spite of how much as it hurt us, and for such a small amount of time, I'm still glad that we adopted him and, for his last days, showed him what it was like to feel the love and joy of being a part of a real family. That was almost 7 years ago and Ben still has a picture of him in a cat-themed picture frame with his collar hung over the top right collar (in fact, right next to a hand-weaved "leaf" with a rose taken from his father's casket attached to it. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.com/rpcablog/ "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" wrote in message ... Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
"Kelly Greene" wrote in message
... "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" wrote in message ... Has anyone looked at urns for their dearly departed cats (or dogs)? OMG!! Talk about ripping you off when you're vulnerable!! I looked at some for $500.00!!!!!! I was tempted to call them and bitch them out for their stinkin' prices. I did settle on a walnut colored box that has a ceramic Basset Hound on top. There's a brass plate on the front for engraving. Even this one cost $125.00!! It's definitely worth it to me, and I'm glad I am able to afford it. I just can't believe these places and their prices. It's absolutely horrendous!!! Those prices are an outrage. Why can't you use your own Urn? Have someone make one for you out of wood. You make it sound so easy. I don't know a wood carver or wood worker. I don't know a single person who could make an urn. Jill |
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Pet urns (kinda off topic)
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"jmcquown" wrote: "Kelly Greene" wrote in message ... Those prices are an outrage. Why can't you use your own Urn? Have someone make one for you out of wood. You make it sound so easy. I don't know a wood carver or wood worker. I don't know a single person who could make an urn. If there are local non-chain art supply or craft stores, they may be able to refer you to artisans or art guilds with more information. Second-hand book shops may have information, as may independently owned and operated coffee shops or tea houses. Farmers' markets are out of season, but art and craft shows aren't. There may also be the option of having a tag custom engraved and attaching it to a small jewelry or keepsake box, which doesn't require knowing anyone at all - virtually every online store that sells tags will do custom engraving. -- minnow ^..^ http://twitter.com/taheenahana http://www.flickr.com/photos/minnow/ |
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