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Cats' ashes (potentially triggering)

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 08/10/2021 08:36

Very sorry if anyone is offended or hurt by this.

I'm doing a decluttering exercise (driven by another thread on MN).

It has occurred to me that the five little cat urns I have sitting on the top of a high shelf are really rather pointless, (and at constant risk of being kicked off by one of my very much alive cats).

Would it be unreasonable to get rid of them?

If so, I'll probably scatter their ashes. Any suggestions what do with the ashes (bearing in mind that several of the cats never lived in our current house)

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Toddlerteaplease · 08/10/2021 12:02

I would scatter them somewhere they liked.

Toddlerteaplease · 08/10/2021 12:03

Or if they didn't live there, just in a nice spot.

CSJobseeker · 08/10/2021 12:10

Bury them underneath a remembrance plant in your garden

Brollywasntneededafterall · 08/10/2021 12:15

Our dcat's ashes are in a small plastic box under a plant in a planter in the garden where he loved...

altforvarmt · 08/10/2021 12:18

I took my two cats' ashes to an area of woodland I love and scattered them there.

crj123 · 08/10/2021 12:21

You might have already seen ashesintoglass.co.uk but I did this with my previous cats' ashes (have them both in the same ring) and it's a lovely thing. And it made me less sentimental about their remaining ashes

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 08/10/2021 12:54

Many thanks all for the suggestions. I'm glad that I'm not being considered awful for disposing of the urns.

Since several of them didn't live here I think we'll scatter their ashes in the backwater at the bottom of the garden. The ones who did live here were always attracted by it.

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MistandMud · 08/10/2021 13:02

You could put them at the bottom of a large plant pot, and grow catnip (or a rose, or something else decorative!) on top.

Toddlerteaplease · 08/10/2021 13:59

I have Maia's ashes in a glass pig with her name on. Much to my families amusement. (They now do cats)

Beamur · 08/10/2021 14:01

I'd scatter them in a nice sunny spot that they would have enjoyed when they were alive.

80sMum · 08/10/2021 14:05

Scatter them or bury them in your garden.

Brollywasntneededafterall · 08/10/2021 15:10

We have this pot from The Range.

CatChant · 08/10/2021 20:04

Scatter them. It's your memories that matter.

TheFeistyFeminist · 09/10/2021 09:18

Our plan has always been to bury our cats' ashes in the garden they loved. But we have had the ashes a while and they seem fairly solid now. I think we would find it hard to scatter them even if we wanted to.

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