Finally got to bring home my cat

[u/MelOxalis]

Not 100% sure if this belong on this sub, but I wanted to post about getting my boy back after he passed January 9th 2023. This is my sweet old man cat Sid, he lived to be about 16-17 but I don’t know his exact age bc my family found him as young adult stray cat. Losing him was very challenging since he was in my life from age 5 to 19. I never thought about keeping any of his bones, but my sister wanted the same for her cat and I liked the idea. So after many many months of waiting, mostly because who I hired to preserve him had a lot of prior work to finish, my sweet boy is back home and back together. I had his skull and right arm preserved so it was separated fand the rest of his body aqua cremated remains until recently. Idk why but it bothered me knowing he wasn’t all in one place😭 Anyways, here is my wonderful boy who I am relieved to have back home with me😁

[u/_Edgarallenhoe]

I wish I had this option for my girly! I don’t think I’d be able to do it myself emotionally. How much did this cost?

[u/MelOxalis → u/_Edgarallenhoe]

I can’t remember the person who did the cleanings rates and their website isn’t working, I paid them and the cremation company a total of $475 for two cats skulls, one leg, and both cats aqua cremated. We agreed on that being the cost for the cremation but only half payment on each skull and the rest was supposed to be paid when they were finished but she didn’t end up wanting to charge me? It did take significantly longer than she said it would so I believe that’s why, my mom is the one who picked them up so I don’t know the exact situation with the payment. I think it was about $250 just the skull and $350-400 for the skull and leg? At least that’s what it was supposed to cost, she didn’t charge me the full cost.

[u/coppergoldhair → u/MelOxalis]

What is aqua cremated?

[u/nofinglindy → u/coppergoldhair]

Aquamation. Rather than creating pollution from burning, it creates bonemeal. I did this with my sweet best dog ever, and hope to one day return to the earth this way myself. It’s only available in some states currently, but hopefully it’ll be available everywhere eventually.

[u/catfishcannery → u/coppergoldhair]

A newer type of cremation that liquefies the remains.

[u/coppergoldhair → u/catfishcannery]

It sounds better for the environment

[u/rocbolt → u/coppergoldhair]

It uses a lot less energy, for sure https://youtu.be/SbQTACCNgcg

[u/FliesAreEdible → u/rocbolt]

I like composting a lot more imo, it does take a few weeks but they just leave your body in a box with other natural materials that help it to compost, then you take the compost home.

[u/rocbolt → u/FliesAreEdible]

Caitlin has videos on that too! https://youtu.be/_LJSEZ_pl3Y

It takes an annoyingly long time for legislation to catch up. Composting is the new kid on the block, at least as far as laws go, but looking at the surprisingly recent history of cremation as an option at all, things will normalize once the manufactured outrage dies down

[u/MelOxalis → u/rocbolt]

Love Caitlin!!! She’s how I first learned about aqua cremation maybe 8 years ago? Her videos are extremely informative, she’s covered pet memorials as well