What to do with a dead dog?!

blankAs · 03-05-2013 11:19PM #1

Ok so just got news that a friends dog is dead but there is the little problem now of what to do with the body as she has no garden, just a patch of concrete out the front. where can the body go? any help advice much appreciated!

SafeSurfer · 03-05-2013 11:20PM

Korea

dahat · 03-05-2013 11:20PM

Ring the Guards,there is a killer on the loose..

03-05-2013 11:21PM

pet cemetery?

Arpa · 03-05-2013 11:22PM

http://www.dogstrust.ie/az/b/bereavement/bereavementfinalrestingplace09.aspx#.UYQ4J1Ez-I4

Uusally your local vet would know how to deal with it. Unless you want to splash out on a pet cemetery which I think is overdoing it.

I'm not advocating it, but maybe a nice spot on communal land in the Irish countryisde...don't know what the law says about it but I'm not sure anybody would really care as long as you do it carefully.

dee_mc · 03-05-2013 11:23PM

http://www.petcrematoriumireland.com/

Phill Ewinn · 03-05-2013 11:23PM

Reggae reggae sauce

the keen edge · 03-05-2013 11:23PM

Thank God you came here to us first.

Now pay close attention because you're going to get a lot of useful advice. If there is anything people around here are well versed about it's dead dog disposal.

kraggy · 03-05-2013 11:24PM

It's illegal to bury any animal on private land (As far as I know)

2 options:

a. Bring him to the vet and the vet takes him and sends him off to be cremated amongst a group of other dogs.

b. Bring him to the vet and the vet sends him off to be cremated individually and his ashes can be put in a sealed box with his name engraved on a silver plate and then given back to his owner.

Obviously the answer will depend on how close your friend is to the dog. I was very close to mine so I spent the money on getting Sam cremated individually. He is now on the mantlepiece at home with a photo of him in the sea resting on his box.

I also cut off a lock of his hair. Both his hair and the fact that he's still with us really helped with dealing with the loss.

03-05-2013 11:24PM

blankAs wrote: »

Ok so just got news that a friends dog is dead but there is the little problem now of what to do with the body as she has no garden, just a patch of concrete out the front. where can the body go? any help advice much appreciated!

Try Pet cemetery? Taxidermist? Perhaps there is a pet crematorium? Maybe bury the pet on a relative or close friends land should they give you permission?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-05-2013 11:24PM

I was going to say Chinese takeaway, but Korean is good too.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-05-2013 11:26PM

Yep, inquire at a veterinary office. I remember when my cat was put down I was upset and didn't want to take his body home so they told me they'd take of him.

stefan idiot jones · 03-05-2013 11:26PM

Gas mark four for an hour then turn, baste with butter then a further twenty minutes at gas mark six for some nice canine crackling.
Serve with roast potatoes and bingo, feed your family for a fiver.

blankAs · 03-05-2013 11:26PM

no no no, nothing elaborate like that. just been looking at the info on the dogs trust and she more like one of the ''people feel that the dog’s remains are merely an empty shell since the ‘essence’ or life of the dog has departed and can therefore simply be disposed of by the vet, not an elaborate funeral with a red velvet lined coffin. any one know bout the vet option, does it cost?

WoollyRedHat · 03-05-2013 11:28PM

blankAs wrote: »

Ok so just got news that a friends dog is dead but there is the little problem now of what to do with the body as she has no garden, just a patch of concrete out the front. where can the body go? any help advice much appreciated!

So your friends gone away on holidays, asks you to mind the dog and the house until she gets back, but while you were going to the shops, you accidentally ran it over, killed it, and now are in a panic and need to get rid of the evidence, before popping down to the pound to get another dog just like it. That's what's really happening here isn't it

nocoverart · 03-05-2013 11:29PM

Stew?

kraggy · 03-05-2013 11:29PM

blankAs wrote: »

no no no, nothing elaborate like that. just been looking at the info on the dogs trust and she more like one of the ''people feel that the dog’s remains are merely an empty shell since the ‘essence’ or life of the dog has departed and can therefore simply be disposed of by the vet, not an elaborate funeral with a red velvet lined coffin. any one know bout the vet option, does it cost?

Yes. Not sure about how much the group cremation/disposal costs but we paid about €200 to have our fella cremated and his ashes returned.

03-05-2013 11:30PM

What size of dog is it, my biomass boiler will take a small Labrador...

03-05-2013 11:31PM

Sonovagun could put it in his safe.

03-05-2013 11:32PM

101 uses for a dead dog

Smidge · 03-05-2013 11:32PM

It's around 150 euro for the vet to dispose(cremate)a dog.

oppenheimer1 · 03-05-2013 11:34PM

There are plenty of animal disposal companies in the golden pages, and if you live outside Dublin there is probably one relatively close.

Other options are the Dublin mountains. I don't know if they are allowed in the black bin? Can't see why it wouldn't be tbh.

mattjack · 03-05-2013 11:35PM

flush down toilet , did you say goldfish or dog OP ?

kraggy · 03-05-2013 11:36PM

Dispose of him respectfully. He deserves that much at least.

blankAs · 03-05-2013 11:36PM

150 euro?! thats a bit much, dont want it back or anything, no silver engraved thing just the body gone...

c_man · 03-05-2013 11:38PM

kraggy wrote: »

Dispose of him respectfully. He deserves that much at least.

Aye. Down to the local pitch with you OP. The U-12's will be training on his place of eternal rest for ever more.

03-05-2013 11:38PM

I have to ask OP, how did the dog die? Was it ill? Had you taken it to a vet?

150 is a reasonable price.

boomerang · 03-05-2013 11:38PM

It depends on the size of the dog and also group cremation (where you don't get the ashes back) is cheaper than individual cremation. AFAIR a cat would be about twenty euro and for a terrier-sized dog it would be about fifty. You don't need to be a client of the vet for them to accept the body but you would have to ring them first.

BillyMitchel · 03-05-2013 11:40PM

Ring the blue cross and donate it to science.

Or next time you are making a nice stew, instead of using beef, use the hound. Problem solved.

oppenheimer1 · 03-05-2013 11:41PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I have to ask OP, how did the dog die? Was it ill? Had you taken it to a vet?

150 is a reasonable price.

150 is very expensive, considering a knackery down the country will dispose of a calf for €36 iirc and collect it too.

srm23 · 03-05-2013 11:42PM

throw the corpse over the wall into the neighbours back garden, then accuse them of the killing.
the least they can offer to do is pay the 150euro cremation fee

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