Bury your dog or cremate?

Anyway, I know there will come a time, and I want to have my plan of action when that time comes.

I have two options: bury him or cremate him.

Cremate him and urn the ashes to keep with me always or bury him on the land I hunt.

The land is my best friend's land in north Louisiana. He told me a couple of years ago when it is time I am welcome to bring him there. It is his family's land, and thousands of acres with a lake and a river running through part of the property.


There is no risk of losing the land or anything, as his grandfather, grandmother, and father are actually buried in a private area on that same property (of course my dog will not be anywhere near their plot.)

But, I have heard leaving the body is much harder than the actually putting down of the dog. A friend told me he wishes he hadn't and that he will never take that route again.

An urn would be nice to have with me when I wanted, but I think it would also be nice to put him on such a beautiful piece of property and visit him when I go up there is what would be truly private and personal moments.


So I need some advice, first on how will I know it is time? And what is your opinion on cremation vs burial?

Thanks

When our last dogs died, we cremated them and buried their ashes under a tree we planted in the yard. I also had small flat stones made with their names on them (not head stones), and placed them on either side of the tree. This was in a corner of our yard.
They were great dogs and deserved it IMO.

Bury the dog.

Digging the hole does 2 things:
1. It makes you too tired to dwell on the loss; and
2. It gives you closure.

I have always just buried my pets, the thought of burning something i loved just seems strange to me,so i say just bury.

And as for your dog, that's awesome you've had him that long, and you will know when it's time to let him go.

Mine end up thrown in the weeds

Yeah I'm gonna be in the same situation soon with my ole girl. She's getting up in age...I can't bear the thought of burying her in Alabama. That's just not home. All of my good dogs (meaning all my dogs)...are buried on Mom and Dad's property in Sulphur. I guess cremation is the only real option for me..then bring her back home (Alabama will NEVER be home)..and put her to rest with the others.


I like the idea of the garden stones. That's a great way to remember a lost pet. I'm gonna look into that as well for all the future ones.

Bury the dog, cremating a dog has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard, it's a pet not a human, some people become too emotionally attached to animals. It's good to have a pet but it's just an animal, they have no process of logical thinking I think if you asked your dog what he thinks he'd just look at you and not give a frick. By the way, sorry about your dog, had to bury mine last year, but dot cremate the thing waste of money, time, and fire

My father's lab died a month after my father passed from cancer. We had the lab cremated, and when the tombstone for my father was set, we put a small ziplock of the dog's ashes down in the hole that holds the urn for flowers. That bag is still there 4 years later.

Some people get too emotionally attached to their own POV and think everyone else's is stupid. He's lived with his dog for 17 years that longer than a lot of dad's live with their own children. When you get down to the nuts and bolts of the matter humans are just animals too and I think more highly of my dog than I do most humans.

Bury the ashes.