I reckon mine will get a trip to the sea, since i live right beside it. That's what I've done in the past.

 

depends on the circumsatnces of the death.

 

In what way?

And would it depend on the type of animal?

 

Mine went in the wheelie bin.

 

All uneaten meat and bones are thrown out of the window for recycling (aka the foxes) as are snakes who come to the end of their life on this mortal coil!

 

I go the full hog... buried, spot marked, and a tree/plant planted... then their remains turn into something to last for many years

Fish however usually flushed

Ashes to ashes,
Dust to Dust,
Away with a fishie
Down with a flush lol

 

So what is the difference between a fish and any other pet?

 

post mine anonymously to a priest

 

We've only had one die and that was after an operation at the vets so it had a "small pet cremation". As for any future ones it all depends how they die i guess.

 

Never had one die that didn't have a full post mortem, and the vets don't give you the body back.

So bright yellow medical waste bin sack for mine.

If I could have the body back, I'd bury them in the garden with a tree planted on top.

 

I take mine to meaningfull hemplaces. I couldn't bin them

 

I have only been in to snakes for a couple of years, so no deaths yet fortunately. When I do eventually have one, which will hopefully be in a very long time, if it is slightly strange (i.e. suspicious for illness, etc) I will have a PM done. However, if the death is normal, I'd tempted to have the snake stuffed, call me a wierdo, but it would be a kind of cool. You could always donate the stuffed animal to the nation history museum, I don't know if they would take it, but there model of a boa constrictor is absolutely terrible. It has little piggy eyes like an anaconda and has the wrong colouration and pattering. It is there one crap exhibit.

 

Other for me.

Anything that died for unknown reasons gets a PM then cremated by the vets.

Anything tiny like hatchlings that dont survive go in the bin, triple bagged I would hate one to accidentally drop out and the bin men freak out.

Anything big again gets cremated by the vets.

Only had one snake die of natural causes in adulthood and he was an old old old royal, anything else has been PTS for medical reasons so already at the vets.

 

the same place i would go. in the ground and be worm food. just as mum intended:2thumb:
if i had a dinosaur id prolly cremate it unless i could take the day to dig a large 6ft deep hole..

saying that if i had the coin to do it id definitely spend my after life cruising through space in a air tight titanium box with a uranium battery powering a soundtrack of aerosmith and other such godly music:2thumb:

 

Fry em up..

 

When my normal corn layed a clutch of eggs, they didnt make it through inubation and my mum threw them in the wheelie bin, but then the next year, the corn died too, so we buried her on the local field

 

I like the recycling idea. :2thumb:

 

bury them in the garden : victory:

 

All our dead snakes are still in the freezer :S I will have to put my foot down soon though but he wants to keep them and then one day open them up and have a prod around the anatomy :lol2:

If I had my way they would all be disposed of, some how.. the thought of chucking them freaks me out though ( I just imagine some poor bin man accidently ripping the bag open) I think I would just take them down the vets and have them cremated - I wouldn't keep the ashes though.

 

I wouldn't keep the ashes though.

they wouldnt offer you them: victory:

 

I used to work with a guy who was a taxidermist in his spare time. He had one of his pieces on his desk and it was really good. Most of his work was roadkill - I supplied him with an intact seagull one morning which earned me a couple of pints.

On learning I kept snakes he was very keen on setting one up - said he'd never done one before, and would charge mates rates to do one of mine when it died. I've still got his number, but I'm not sure I'd like a deceased snake on display in the house.

(and I've written two paragraphs about stuffing and mounting a snake without a hint of innuendo).

 

Post mortem and into clinical waste!

 

no reps died yet.. havnt been keeping reps long but think im doing all right. 2 of my piranhas got eaten over night by a slightly bigger fish, fed what was left to the cat...

 

ermm probs cremation, or full burrial, at the end of the day id still give him a proper funeral lol in the garden as think of all the pleasure and interest hes given me. its only right. suppose feeding him to foxes is good tho as hes being given back to nature. god its depressing me even thinking of the day when he moves to the viv in the sky......:eek4:

 

Well horses are a bit big for the bin. . . all of mine have gone to the local hunt for the hounds so I guess that would be classed as recycling. I always bury the dogs in the meadow garden though, I couldnt chuck them in the bin. We used to bury rats/hamsters but one of the dogs dug up my daughters hamster 3 days later . . . which as you can imagine scarred her for life!! :lol2: From now on they shall be getting binned!!

 

Uneaten rodents and wild mice from the garage etc get bagged and binned. We've tried leaving them for foxes, but no foxes. I think the magpies eat the foxes but they won't eat rats.

In the past all pets have been buried at the end of the garden. It always reminds me of Pet Sematary.

Not sure why I don't bury dead rodents, probably 'cos I'm too lazy.

 

On the people who said about burying then planting, I will probably do this option if any of mine pass away. On a note on that there is a farmer who has been selling plots of his farm land for people to burry their relatives and pets (reduced buriel costs) then have alotments on the top of them.

Hey kids rember these carrots have a bit of grandma and fluffy in every bite : victory:

 

We bury all pets in garden and then plant a tree of flower or something.

I have a 4 year old thats very big on the full burial ceremony for pets, we then have to spend days after explaining how they have got to pet heaven when she saw daddy putting them in a hole in ground!

Only animal we had cremated was our dog.

Ive chucked baby (and i mean tiny baby) bunnies in the bin before but couldnt put anything ive bonded with in a bin i dont think.