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chegirl · 18/04/2009 23:05

Make sure, if you are burying your deceased dog, make sure the hole is good and deep.

I have finally got round to sorting my garden out today. We had building work done a few months back and the builders trashed it. It has been pretty neglected anyway TBH.

I was merrily clearing the thatch from under the bamboo and came across the skull of my little doggie and various other bits and pieces.

We had to have her put to sleep about two years ago (she was about 150 years old). We have a heavy clay soil and I dug quite a deep hole because I know what foxes like to get up to. Obviously not deep enough (even though it had a garden storage box on top of it).

God knows how long she had been quietly decomposing in the garden

Poor little Bess.

I will have to have another funeral for her now.

Bit worried about what I will find when I move the garden box. There was is a kitten and an ancient cat under there too.

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screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:13

che I shall bear that in mind when my cat slips this mortal coil. That must have been a nasty shock

I once buried one of our tropical fish in the garden, but couldn't get the hole very deep, so dug it up a few days later because I couldn't bear the thought of one of the cats getting hold of it.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 18/04/2009 23:15

thanks for the advice...

thumbwitch · 18/04/2009 23:15

Whenever we bury pets in the garden, we put a brick on top of the box, so that would be the first thing we would hit if digging in that vicinity. Seems to work - haven't found any remnants of tortoise/cat/guineapig variety so far...

everGreensleeves · 18/04/2009 23:17

couldn't stand the thought of the cat getting hold of it? A dead fish? Why not?

InTheScrum · 18/04/2009 23:18

I thought you had to have dog burials marked on your deeds?

screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:19

everGreensleeves I know, I know. But it was our first pet bereavement as it really affected DS1, who was 6 at the time. I'm all for telling them the facts of life (and death), but didn't want the cat playing with it, or bringing it in to us!

everGreensleeves · 18/04/2009 23:23

screamingabdab, as soon as I had posted that I thought "oh SHIT" what a stupid nasty comment - but it was too late! I am a bit "into my cups" IYKWIM

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chegirl · 18/04/2009 23:24

I am assuming it was Bess.

She was v.small so it could be a random cat but skull looks more doggie. It seems too much of a coincedence.

I am going to move the box tommorow so all could be revealed (literally)

The brick advice is v good thumb. Hopefully I wont need it for quite a while as I have a new ickle lickle puppy wuppy and my other dog is not allowed to die.

screaming dont want to upest you but that is quite funny . Bless.

My OH thinks I am nuts burying them in the garden. But then he comes from a background where dogs are kept outside and fed on scraps (NOT bought up the aisle on you wedding day).

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screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:24

No offence

screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:26

That fish was like a brother to me....

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chegirl · 18/04/2009 23:26

Oh screaming doesnt seem quite so funny now - sorry.

On your deeds, really! Blimey. She was only tiny, I cant see it making much difference to anyone who bought our house.

Anyway - she isnt buried anymore.

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screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:27

x-post che !

everGreensleeves · 18/04/2009 23:28

[paroxysms of guilty anguish]

[visions of chips, salt and vinegar]

midlandsmumof4 · 18/04/2009 23:29

Same goes for any deceased pet really-children can be as bad as builders. I remember when my son's rabbit died (we're talking 20 plus years ago).We buried his rabbit in the garden and because we aren't religious just said that its what happens when animals/people die. They are buried. However, at school he learnt about Heaven . Came home from school and promptly dug up the rabbit and asked why it was still in the ground and not 'ascended'. Had a hell of a time explaining that one.

BlueJellie · 18/04/2009 23:29

My parents have an apple tree in their back garden where all the pets are buried under - it's a cemetary. They've had guinea pigs, rats, mice, hamsters etc - so all a short life & my mum has a little ceremony for each of them

screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:31

You wouldn't get much nutrition out of it, it was only a centimetre long. Anyway "Fan-Dan Shut Up George" (I kid you not - named by DS2), is now in the great toilet in the sky.

everGreensleeves · 18/04/2009 23:33

Fucking hell BlueJellie

[edges away]

screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:33

Midlandsmum LOL "ascended"

BlueJellie · 18/04/2009 23:37

Oh yes evergreen - there is always a prayer everytime one is buried - the most recent was our cat that was mine as a child. She buried the cat in a box with one of her pieces of jewellery and a poem!!!

BlueJellie · 18/04/2009 23:38

I think she prefers the small animals as she always has a funeral to plan for giggle

screamingabdab · 18/04/2009 23:40

Bluejellie get her into fish - they die all the time!

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chegirl · 18/04/2009 23:42

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easter

Ascention

You dont think............

She always was such a good little doggie..

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