Cremating Your Pet

When choosing options for pet cremation services Sunshine Coast, you may consider a private or a communal cremation. As the name suggests, private cremation refers to separate cremation of your pet whereas the latter means cremation of the pet with other animals as well. There are three types of pet cremation services: private, comingled, and partitioned. In a private cremation, only one animal's body is in the oven. During a partitioned cremation, multiple animals may be in the incinerator at the same time, but they are separated so that the remains from each can be collected separately. Some "active comingling" of remains is unavoidable. Communal cremation is the burning of several animals at once, without any form of separation. Pet owners are often confused about what kind of pet cremation services Sunshine Coast their animal receives. They may ask for their animal's remains to be returned, and assume that this means the animal received a private cremation, when in fact it might have been a partitioned cremation. The cremains may be mostly their animal, but active comingling means that the cremains will also include little tiny bits of other pets. Even with truly private cremations, some residual mixing or "unavoidable incidental comingling" of remains will occur, since it is near impossible to remove every speck of material from the oven in between cremations. 

The costs for cremating a pet are determined by a few different factors, including where you live, the weight of your pet, how you want your pet cremated, and the cost of an urn if you want a decorative one. Typically, for pets fifty pounds or less, cremation costs around $80 or more; for larger pets, the cost is closer to $180 or more. Some crematoriums may also charge for transportation of your pet’s remains, as well as for the return of the ashes. If you select partition cremation, you may either ask the crematory to return the ashes to you for the final disposition or let the crematory staff scatter the cremains on the facility ground or memorial area and then send you a cremation certificate bearing the pet’s name and date of cremation. As this option involves group cremation of several animals, the ashes of your beloved furry companion are likely to be mixed with those of other animals that were cremated in the same chamber. In case of private cremation, you may request the crematorium personnel to allow you to view the cremation of your pet as it helps with the closure for the loss. The facility, however, may charge an added fee for this service. You can choose a pet cremation services yourself or ask your beloved pet’s veterinarian or a local animal shelter to do so. Beware of cremation facilities that adopt illegal behavior by simply getting rid of the animal’s body elsewhere and handing over just dirt as cremation ash to the owners. Most veterinary hospitals have a relationship with a regulated establishment that offers a cremation chamber which is a special kind of furnace used exclusively for pet cremation services. The service will pick up your pet’s body at your vet’s office and take it to the facility where this cremation equipment is housed. The chamber is then heated to 1,500 to 1,600 degrees, a process which results in evaporation within the cremation chamber to yield the cremated remains. These cremains are further processed and packaged for ease of storage and transportation.