Pet Disposal in Japan

Hmm... well once my bunnies go to carrot heaven i will do the cemetery thing and get a nice bowl for the ashes to be sealed airtight and such.
I like them a lot, to much to just throw them away... :/

After our previous dog died we buried him in the garden of my parents' house and we used a suitably shaped rock as it's tombstone.

In my area people generally bury their pets in their back yards, unless they don't have enough land, in which case they generally bury it in someone else they know's back yard. Even the vet office generally buries pets if they get euthanized or something. Then there are Pet Cemeteries, where they will bury your pet and put up a nice tombstone that you can come visit. This is probably all because Canada has one of the lowest population densities in the world, and I grew up in a small city and rural enviroment. We have so much land that burying pets is the most practical.

Well, I could always bury the hamster in the potted plant and fashion a little cross for it...

8 cats in the river, six without heads?! It's worse than the serial cat abuser Singapore has.

80 do9llars to cremate a HAMSTER? Noooooooooo thanks. D:

That is rather pricey. Still I don't think I could ever throw my poor catgirls (yes, yes... just female cats) into a river, whether they were dead or not, they would have to get a proper cremation. >_<

I don't think we are charged much here, if anything at all to have pets cremated. Not certain though, as I've never paid for it myself.

We had my dog cremated when she died last year. It seemed more appropriate that just burying her in the backyard.

I dont know what happened to our dog. It was put down by the vet, so probably labeled biohazard material like aborted fetuses are. (too much information?)

the costs to bring life into being = and puting it to rest?

Can't pet owners just dig a grave for their animals? Is that too difficult or too demanding?
Some critters truly are not respected even after they pass away... I'd pray for them.

80 dollars to cremate a hamster? i can do it for you at 40. ^^;;

Here in germany it used to be allowed to bury pets in your garden, at a minimum dept of 50cm.
Unless there were restrictions due to groundwater.

Now pets need to be professionally disposed due to EU BSE safety regulations.

if a pet has passed away, we provide it a proper burial by digging up a grave for the pet at a vacant lot...no expense and there's no law that prohibits us to do this

i don't know if we have a pet cemetery here ^^;;;;

Yeah we used to "recycle" our dead animals. By that I mean we buried them out in the back back yard. Gave them a little graveside service and all.

Can't have any fury pets at the moment with the no pets policy at the place I'm living at now. Which is just fine.

I currently have 2 dogs and 6 cats ^^
As for disposal of dead pets, I know vets here can help but I forgot the charges

From what I heard from a friend whose cat died in an unfortunate washing machine accident._."
They just throw them in the dumpster=/

"It's costly to die in Japan"

And that's also true for pets. >_<

Wow, that's quite expensive; more money to burn the thing than to buy it it seems. We've only had small pets so we dumped 'em in the bin or flushed the fish down the bowl. Although in a moment of respect, we did bury the parakeet and the hamster in the yard XD. Oh yeah and don't ever buy me goldfish; all three sets died withing a week @.@

Most of the owners in Sweden bury their animals somewhere close to the house, maybe the backyard.

Dose Japan have an aging pet population? ... more recently on the news here (L.A) was a story on how well and how much money some Japanese spend on taking care of their older pets.

I have not owned a pet for sometime now but have had many in the past. Just too busy to have one these days.

why cremate or throw? comsuming the flesh of your deceased pet and make them a part of you forever! now thats love =D

i try not to keep pets as i won't have time to take care of them. the last pet my family have was a hamster who died of old age (2 yrs old).

my mum said she buried it in the nearby park but i'm not sure whether that's true or not...

gosh morbid post XP I'm reminded of the movie "pet cemetery" o_o

Ewwww how can people throw their pets into the river??? throwing fish are alright - freash dead bodies - alright - your shit - alright

but pets deserve a dignified burial - BBQ them & serve them up in a bap ASAP before rigor mortis sets in. remember kids! want not! waste not!!!!

(ive always buried my pets at the bottom of my garden)

decapitated dedcats? how cruel.

They should at least use a weight on the body so you don't have dead animals floating around. A burial at sea is fine, but I'm sure no one wants to see furry fish food floating forever.

My mother never allows to have pets, she always says something like "Have enough animal with you and your brother..."

And now, I don`t have time to care pets, not even myself...

the last time I had a pet was when I was about 7 or 8 years old, and it was a beagle, a very cute dog >.<
and my dad always tied it on its leash outside on the porch (this porch had no fence and it was ground level to walkways)...
and then one morning I wake up to feed my dog, and whaddya know, somebody cut the leash and stole my dog. I figured it would happen eventually...but my dad refused to let the dog sleep inside....

does a dead human body fall into dead animal?

The way it's usually done is to burry the dead pet in a garden or a forest, here in Poland. But I wonder if I won't cremate my cat to make her a small shrine later ^^

My dog is kinda old now (and diabetic!), so I think a lot on topics like these...
His veterinarian even suggested putting him down because of the diabetes, but we decided to keep him.
2 insulin shots a day, and special (very expensive) food for him.

Anyways, the best solution is cremation. I don't mean as sentimental value or anything like that... just that it's the cleanest way to do it.

Most people said they will or did bury their deceased pets in the backyard.
I did that too once.

But I heard this can contaminate the soil, local underground water and even bring diseases...

That's why we have cemeteries for the dead. They are made in strategic places so contamination won't happen... you know, dead decomposing bodies are kinda toxic.

Pet cemeteries are kind of a luxury today, but can also be a solution for the issue.

Cremation by weight .... amazing.

Bury pets here in backyard lol that's what happen to my fish anyway that's about all I've got pet wise.

I think people who throw their pets into the river shouldn't own on in the first place. No respect to the dead...

Had hamsters once... Gave it to a friend... Don;t know if it's still alive...

I have an idea...why not hang a head trophy of our pet...it's last and perserve memories.....

Now that you mention it, I actually don't have any idea how pets are disposed of around here. I should get around and ask about that. ^^ But most people tend to bury it in their yards/garden though.

Well, there are strict regulations here in Germany how to 'dispose' of the corpse of your pet.

Dogs, cats, small animals, birds, piglets, bunnies, as well as young sheeps and goats who are younger than 4 weeks can be burried in your own garden without permission from your neighbours IF they didn't die by a notifiable disease. If they died by such a disease you must ask your neighbours, the grave must be at least 2 meters away from any public path, they must be buried under a 50 cm thick layer of earth and wrapped into something that rots well, like for example a blanket and the grave must not be lockated near or in a water protection area.
It is ALWAYS illegal to burry your pet on ground that doesn't belong to you like for example in the woods. If you do so and the authorities find out the fine can be up to 15.000 €.
If your pet has been put to sleep at your vet, you an leave it there and he will store the corpse there untill a knacker comes by to dispose of it.
Cremation is also an option. Then you don't have to meet any regulations except for scattering the ashes, which is illegal here in Germany. You can keep the ashes in an urn or you can leave them at the crematory.
And then there are pet cementries.

Im glad I have a yard to bury my pets in. I would feel strange giving my dead dog to another person to dispose of it, But I suppose thats much better than tossing it in a river.

the cats' heads must be for johnny walker's flute. anyways, it's pretty easy to dispose of dead animals here in my part of the world. recently, my mom's beloved pet pom passed away after keeping her company for 13 years. she buried her in our garden under the flower bed.

I once had a dog named Max. He was an overweight mixed breed Shetland-Collie who thought of himself more as a person than an animal. He scared easily at the sight of animals, even cats and squirrels yet he had a certain affinity for people, not other dogs.

One day he died at the time my mother appointed for him at the veterinarian. It was planned well in advance that we would not go to the great trouble of burring his over-sized corpse in our back yard, so his remains were cremated and his ashes spread over the places he lounged about in our yard.

Costly or impractical? Perhaps, but he was a fine dog. Why not afford such an extension of the the family a worthy burial? Beats the hell out over sprinkling CS-powder over his grave every day for year should we have chosen to return him in that manner. The last thing my mother wanted was an unwelcome pet scavenger feeding off of our last pet in the spring of Pennsylvania.

here in oklahoma a few years ago there was a huge stink over what vet offices did with the animals they put down. the local news showed one local vet office bagging dead cats and dogs and having them taken away only to be thrown away in a dumpster.

I was under the impression the Japanese were a clean enough people not to attempt randomly throwing dead animals in the water. Anyways, I've had 2 family dogs gone to heaven Darth Vader style, funeral pyre and everything minus the Ewoks. My dad was actually crying when we did it; the poor man loved those dogs.

in my country, the nirwana is one of the biggest 'posh' cemetery owners and they have come with a new 'posh pet cemetery' that is 100% handled under the guide of feng-shui masters. pay an amount of cash that is not cheap and your best pal will have a good place to rest in peace. and dont be sad about losing your pet dog because all dogs go to heaven when they pass away

My hamster died today so we had to bury her in the garden next to the grave of the other hamster. Somehow she got her head stuck in a block of calcium and she pulled to release it and made an open wound from pulling (she did get free on her own though) and die from the wound.
All my other pets died of old age so losing a hamster after just 5 months came as a big surprise.

The really spooky thing is that this accident happened around the same time as Danny was posting this post (give or take like an hour).

I've had crayfish, fish, turtles, a cat, and chickens as pets before. Not at the same time though.

My crayfish, fish, and turtles I buried after they died. My chickens were eaten by my grandma. My cat is still barely a year old, but he spends most of his time outdoors now.

I remembered few years ago I made a little cardboard box for my hamster and buried him in the ground downstairs.

will burn him a stick of incense every year during the hungry ghost festival here =X

DANG 80 bucks for a hamster? damn ill burn him myself and save the ashes...

Usually bury them in our backyard... or in the empty lot across ours. Hehe... XD

We hire someone who bury it, or eat it(No kidding, dog is usually eaten in our country, best accompaniment with beer).