cost of cremation?

[hornetcarp]

sorry for the morbid topic and also if i've posted in the wrong section.

what sort of price for this?

anyone got any experience of it and can offer advice?

thanks

 

[abbymarysmokey]

I think I paid £90 for Sh*tty to be cermated and for a bunny shaped casket for her ashes.

 

[Crystal butterfly]

my vets normally charge about £6 but the last 2 cremations I had done for nothing (i think the vets took pity on me ). i dont get the ashes back i normally get a card sent through the door saying 'your belovered pet (pets name) has been cremated' etc.

 

[chloaster]

I think it's about £13 at my vets but don't know whether you get a cask or anything with that.

 

[abbymarysmokey]

Oh yes, I should say that my vets also offer a cremation service for £10, but that's a mass cremation, so you don't get the ashes back.

Amy

 

[chloaster]

That's probably what they were talking about at my vets then - same as Amy said.

 

[MilliesMam]

Didn't get any change out of £100 for H (my ex paid :shock, a year gone christmas, at a specialised pet crematorium in Doncaster, they even have a chapel of rest!, but he was cremated on his own and I have him in a lovely box with his name and a flower on sat on the fireplace (bit morbid but he was an exceptional bun!) my others are buried in their various favourite digging spots in my parents garden.

 

[Gem]

It varies according to whether you have a mass cremation and don't have ashes back or have an individual one with or without ashes, in a cardboard envelope or a casket

I pay around £80 to £85 to have an individual cremation with ashes back in a wooden casket

 

[charlie82]

I paid 97 to have Charlie cremated at a pet crematorium, and that included having her ashes put into a burial stone with her name engraved on so it can go in the garden. Not that i've actually been able to put her out in the garden and it's been 18 months now...

 

[LurcherGirl]

It's a £109 here for individual cremation with a sealed wooden casket and golden name plate.

Vera

 

[Brennan]

I paid £100+ for my bunny Buffy - her ceremony was in Cambridge - then her ashes came back with a prayer and a box I made a little pot in the garden for her with a beautiful rose so I can 'talk' to her x

 

[Thea & Bobbin]

I paid £100+ for my bunny Buffy - her ceremony was in Cambridge - then her ashes came back with a prayer and a box I made a little pot in the garden for her with a beautiful rose so I can 'talk' to her x

Awww that's so sweet

You have officially just made me cry

 

[purplebumble]

cambridge do a lovely little casket with flowers on top..you even get a certificate saying what time and what number your pet was at cremation. the nice little sympathy card etc.....i think it was £72 to have oscar done.but the diff vets did my cats and htey came backin bulky caskets and it cost me £65 but thats over 2yrs ago now.
my first bun went for mass cremation but they took her fave toy cow to go with her.... ive always felt so bad at not having her cremated individually..but shed cost me over a thousand pounds in 18 months with dentals eye ear probs etc.....vet said it was fairer on her to be pts i coulndt even stay with her id lost our cat recently and i was a wreck.

i have our acts and further buns ashes in a dor in our lounge unti..i alays intend to put them togehter in the gardne but afraid il move again...maybe use a giant planter witha nice shrub in it.

 

[Leanne]

If it is a private cremation with the ashes returned to you go straight to the crematorium yourself as it works out cheaper as the vets add on their percentage too

 

[purplebumble]

really? mm busable crematorium please.......morbid me:lol:

 

[Becca6]

Mine have been around £100 and they are in a wooden casket with a name plaque on. They also come back with a card with the date they were cremated.

I have my precious Harvey on my bedside cabinet so I can reach out and touch him when I'm in bed. Not the same as being able to cuddle him, but it gives me comfort knowing he's close.

 

[davies67]

my thumbelina bun cost 65 and that was for a communal cremation
as if it cost them that much.least i got to hold her while she fell asleep for the last time

 

[IzzyTwig]

Wow, never realised people cremate their bunnies and pay so much. We make our own little boxes and bury them in the garden, seems a more natural place to rest than being cremated.

 

[Becca6]

Wow, never realised people cremate their bunnies and pay so much. We make our own little boxes and bury them in the garden, seems a more natural place to rest than being cremated.

My garden isn't very big and I've now got three cats, two rabbits and a guinea pig in caskets - I also would hate to move and have to leave my babies behind. I think if you've got a nice garden it's a lovely idea but I personally don't want to be buried anyway, I much prefer the idea of being cremated, and particularly in the early days I have found it very comforting to have the ashes near by (I think people think I'm mad - the three cats and one of the bunnies are lined up on a table in front of the living room window, which is where all of them liked to sit, the guinea pig is in the room he lived in for seven years, and darling Harvey is on my bedside cabinet as I still feel the need to have him close to me).

My plan is that when I die I will be cremated, and I then want my ashes and the ashes of however many dear pets I have lost to be mixed together and scattered somewhere nice.

 

[IzzyTwig]

My garden isn't very big and I've now got three cats, two rabbits and a guinea pig in caskets - I also would hate to move and have to leave my babies behind. I think if you've got a nice garden it's a lovely idea but I personally don't want to be buried anyway, I much prefer the idea of being cremated, and particularly in the early days I have found it very comforting to have the ashes near by (I think people think I'm mad - the three cats and one of the bunnies are lined up on a table in front of the living room window, which is where all of them liked to sit, the guinea pig is in the room he lived in for seven years, and darling Harvey is on my bedside cabinet as I still feel the need to have him close to me).

My plan is that when I die I will be cremated, and I then want my ashes and the ashes of however many dear pets I have lost to be mixed together and scattered somewhere nice.

That's fair enough, the idea of eventually putting all the ashes together to be scattered is really touching. We had our dog cremated as burying her would have been too much hard work, the ground was solid and she'd need far more room than a rabbit. Then scattered her ashes on a local hill where we took her for walks. I guess we've had so many animals that if we cremated them and had them in caskets we'd have over 30 in the house.