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What do you do when your animals pass on?
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I just found my RTB Ducky all limp and i thought she was dead, she was playing with me, snapped right out of it a few seconds after i picked her up, slithered up and around my shoulders. Anyways it got me thinking... I'm 26 and have my funeral planned and my will made out to who will take care of my animals if and when i pass. But what do we do when our reptiles pass? I dont have a backyard to bury them in. What have you all done when one of your little loves have passed on? I have thought of creamation, or maybe a taxidermy. See i can't even spell them lol thats great!
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11/3/2009 11:22:07 PM
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FyreFocks
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Some of us have dead snake parties, while others play card games with them and make them lose at hold em to a frozen mouse.
I bury mine in the yard. Maybe you could get a window box with some flowers in it. That would be nice.
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11/3/2009 11:24:13 PM
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Darkdazeys
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I've got a big back yard and I've burried a couple of my critters back there, however, when our beloved hamsters passed on (they were our first babies together, so they meant a lot to us), we buried them at my hubby's mom's house. She has a flagpole that belongs to my hubby that represents his grandfather, who passed on (he was an army colonel), and we bury our critters on top of the hill around the flagpole. I really don't know what I'll do with my dogs and Midna once they pass on.... in 50 years (one can only hope)... but I'll be VERY devastated when their times come.
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11/3/2009 11:41:05 PM
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Geckofactor
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I wrote a blog about it I feed them to the other animals, or I skin them, or burn them depending on the situation and how they died.
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11/4/2009 1:12:27 AM
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masterfulpoopsie
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I throw them in the freezer. Have a friend that likes to put some beatles on them in the woods and the beattles eat off the flesh and were left with a lego skeleton to put together, but then again things don't typically die at my house.
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11/4/2009 12:37:08 PM
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JohnJohn
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Good idea Nate! I like the windowbox idea.
I usually bury them. But I've thrown some in the trash. I through a dead hamster out into the weeds once!
My father in law buried a dead dog once and he didn't bury it deep enough. Something came and dug it up and chewed on it. The damn thing ended up in two pieces! He then tried to bury the two pieces and decided to pile up a bunch of sticks and burn them. After that, something came and dug it up again. It was like the damn thing would not stay buried! It wanted to come back. Needless to say, we don't let him take care o dead animals anymore.
I had to bury one of my favorite cats a few years ago. We planted some columbines on the grave site and now every year we have those nice flowers in memory of that cat.
My burning question is what do I want people to do with me when my day comes. I think I'd like to be cremated and have my ashes spread all over the world.
Have you seen the movie Elizabethtown? It's kind of a chick flick but there's a great scene in the end with his fathers ashes. Very touching.
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11/4/2009 12:38:29 PM
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JohnJohn
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B y the way.....you're 26 and have your funeral planned? You're still just a baby! (or a babe?) I wish I could be 26 again!
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11/4/2009 1:23:20 PM
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abi21491
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I've had lots of deaths over the years, various animals (lived on a farm). If I can, I will bury them. Unfortunately, when the ground freezes here you can't bury them. I've dragged 150 lb goat bodies into the woods and left them there because I had no other option. Next day they would be completely gone. If the animal is small enough, it will go in the freezer until weather permits for burying. I've thrown some animals away, but I HATE doing that so much. I just think it is disrespectful.... But when I lived with my parents, they wouldn't tolerate dead animals in the freezer for months....
I had a crested egg that went full term but the baby died, so I buried the little dead baby in one of my flower pots.
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11/4/2009 1:25:44 PM
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hupababy83
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yes i have my funeral planned, yes i know im a baby, but in my family we have diabetes, strokes, heaart dicease, druggys, alcoholics, convicts, crazy drivers, etc etc... :) so you never know who going to be knocking on your door LMNAO seriously. I didn't want my mom to have to plan another childs funeral, she had to do it once with my older brother. (Motorcycle accident) i want someone to sing "Honkey Tonk Budonkadonk" insstead of "amazing grace" hehehe and "One hot mamma" i want sung by my fiancee, well ex fiancee. I want a specially made casket so i can be sitting up, not laying down, and buried on my property back on the rez. way more details but you get the picture. I dont want average, never really liked average.
anyways i was really wondering if anyone cremated there animals or had them stuffed?!
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11/4/2009 1:28:10 PM
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abi21491
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My mom had our dog buried, but didn't get to keep her ashes :( Never had one stuffed, but my fiance jokes about getting his cat stuffed all the time, he says she'd make a great pillow, lol.
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11/4/2009 1:29:59 PM
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Sydney
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I have not had a snake die yet, but I have discused with my local (three blocks away...) Taxidermist what I will do when they pass. I have arranged to have the snakes skinned, then beetle-cleaned (put into a container of sorts with a special type of tiny bettle that will eat away all of the flesh and leave the smallest, most fragile pieces of the bones intact), bleached and assembled together, and create a kind of museum-style exhibit out of it. Smaller snakes would have their skeletons encased in acryllic, while others would be glued or wired together and placed inside of a glass display case. :3
Most other people have them cremated, but that can be expensive. I suppose you could always go out into the middle of nowhere and incinerate it yourself, lol.
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11/4/2009 1:30:55 PM
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abi21491
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What does that kind of thing cost usually, Sydney? That sounds really cool.
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11/4/2009 1:34:56 PM
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Sydney
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Depends on the size of snake and the cost of the taxidermist, lol. We have not fully discussed prices other than a rough estimate, because hopefully my snakes will grow up and be larger, lol. It can cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand, lol. You could always do it yourself, as Poopsie suggested above, but you risk other critters running away with your dead pet and storms taking their toll on it if you throw it in the woods or backyard. (I've done it a few times many years ago, and I've had these things happen, lol.) Plus, if you let the taxidermists do it, you don't have to worry about the aweful smell of rot, LOL!
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11/4/2009 1:35:57 PM
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abi21491
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Ahh, I see. Yes I've thought about doing it myself, but I don't really want to deal with the rot. lol.
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11/4/2009 1:37:53 PM
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Sydney
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Yeah, and you pretty much have to be aware of the bettles and know how best to get them to feed on the carcus, otherwise nothing will happen, lol. Ants are risky, because they may run off with the bones or chunks of the animal, lol.
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11/4/2009 2:55:47 PM
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Geckofactor
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Getting dermestid beetles to feed is a pretty simple task just get a small colony put them in some moist dog food and throw something dead in there and they go to work. If you can get them to bed on oatmeal that actually works really well too but everything you read says dog food. Just make sure you keep it cool so they don't fly and you're good. The rot isn't too bad actually I've done it many many times with all sorts of animals but the small ribcage bones they will sometimes chew down it's not always completely perfect it really depends on the animal and how hungry your beetles are.
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11/4/2009 3:00:04 PM
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Sydney
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Thanks for the tip, Geckofactor! :) I haven't tried it myself, just went on what I was told. All I know is that when I had a snake of mine die when I was about 8, I put it in the backyard to be fed on by whatever ran past, and the smell was wheeeew! XD
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11/4/2009 3:05:30 PM
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Geckofactor
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The beetles once your colony is established feed pretty quickly and you usually skin the animal first the beetles eat the body inside out if you're worried about smell take the internal organs out and there won't be an issue but the beetles grow faster feeding off the brains and what not if it's a bigger animal I'd certainly take out the stomache though. You can fidn starter colonies all over the internet.
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11/4/2009 4:43:46 PM
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fred60655
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When my first snake died i was totally devistated like depressed for 3 or 4 months. But of course i was ten..... And when larry's time comes i'll cremate him and spread his ashes in the lake at my cottage, really pretty place to be forever...
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11/4/2009 9:34:41 PM
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11/5/2009 12:43:37 PM
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