So I am going to a memorial service for a dog

[royalfan5]

One of my friends dog died this week, and they are having a memorial service for it tonight. Is this the new thing to do with pets? On the upside, there is free booze.

[Curly Bill]

I had mine cremated two years ago. He's now resting comfortably in a small blue velour bag in my gun safe.

...but there was no service.

[soonervegas]

I have buried two out in my back yard. I like to weep over animals in private, I think the public display is a little much. Hopefully they can comfort themselves over a nice fried chicken dinner.

[beer4me]

On the upside, there is free booze.

so what's the prob????

[royalfan5]

I have buried two out in my back yard. I like to weep over animals in private, I think the public display is a little much. Hopefully they can comfort themselves over a nice fried chicken dinner.
They are vegetarians, and one of them already got a tattoo memorializing the dog.

[bent rider]

if it was an Irish Setter, it might be due a good ol' fashioned Irish wake

[Okla-homey]

They got a cemetery and memorial park for a bunch of dead collies just outside the stadium at aTm. I find it rather cult-ish and weird actually.:texan:

[MR2-Sooner86]

http://images21.fotosik.pl/143/0ec3e35c3d55e8ec.jpg

[Chuck Bao]

Why not? I can understand that some people see their pets as part of the family and need to deal with the grieving with a proper sendoff. It may be ridiculous but it must mean something to them. Take advantage of the open bar.

I gave a little kitten a Buddhist funeral service several years ago.

Yom was one of two little kittens I found in a dumpster outside a 7-Eleven and he died a month later.

I had just assumed that Yom was Buddhist and it was the right thing to do. Returning the dead cat to a dumpster wasn’t an option and I have no land to bury a dead animal.

So, I bought a little kitten coffin, which came with a little pillow inside and a dry wreath for cremation. The vet clinic already had the little dead cat wrapped up like a mummy.

http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/kanunu/georgeatyom5C27sfuneralservice.jpg

It was almost like a human cremation service. A monk chanted in Pali for a while. I did that ceremony were I poured holy water from a little jar into a basin while the monk chanted some more. I think that symbolizes the soul changing vessels.

The coffin was put into the crematorium, the monk lit the fire and I left. A day later, the monk spread the ashes in the Chao Phraya River.

http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/kanunu/monkinfrontofcrematorium.jpg