Let's fact it. Pets deserve an eternal tribute. Our fury and feathery friends typically spend a decade or more in our lives, giving us complete and one-of-a-kind loyalty, dedication and love. The preferred choice for many years was to eternally honor pets by burying them. But pet burials are becoming quite costly and despite the fact that there are more than 500 pet cemeteries in teh US, find one is not easy in many places. 

So today, cremation has become a popular choice. In fact, recent data indicates that more pet owners are choosing cremation than ever before. Cremation enables you to keep your companion near you in your home, while at the same time enabling you to bury or scatter a portion of your pet’s ashes in a yard or a favorite place your pet enjoyed. Cremation also permits you to take your pet’s ashes with you when you relocate.

With pet cremation on the rise, the memorials to keep the ashes are being created on an artistic level never seen before. Take cremation urns for example. Pet urns are carefully handmade from solid oak, walnut, birch and cherry trees while many others are made from metals like bronze, where beautifully sculpted statues capture the essence of the relationship we share with them. 

Then there are memorial photos which Is another way of memorializing pets. These amazing photos are ceramic or porcelain and can be placed outdoors on a favorite fence or dog house or tree, and the photo will never fade or succumb to the elements of the outdoors due to a special process that melts the photo into the ceramic or porcelain base. And believe it or not, cremation jewelry is making a big statement with all kind of themed pieces that come in a variety of precious metals like sterling silver and 14K gold. 

Whether it’s a ground burial or cremation, the choice to eternally memorialize our fury friends is becoming more of a norm than not. And it’s a tribute that’s way overdo.