(Spoilers-Revenge)What pet owners do in the following situation?

I watched that and thought it was a magnificently bad idea. With tides and erosion and all that.

But we just bury our pets in the backyard. A two feet deep hole and a garbage bag has never failed us.

Most cities have ordinances against burying dead pets (although many folks ignore them). If there’s a local 24 hour emergency clinic, they usually provide disposal or cremation services. Otherwise, small animals can be bagged and placed in the refrigerator overnight. Larger pets should be bagged, if possible (once rigor sets in, it’s impossible to compress them into a smaller space), and placed somewhere that scavengers cannot get to them overnight. (Bagging is recommended since sphincters relax after death and bodily fluids tend to leak out.)

I’m always astounded by how we used to treat our own dead. The “visitation” and storing of the body in the home for several days – decomp sets in within the first hours and the smell is pervasive. Yuck!

@syz If I did that, I would never be able to eat again.

Fish? Toilet.

Dog? Backyard, trash bag, deep hole. (agreed w/ @johnpowell )

Bear? You’re on your own.

Beach is just a no-no.

Usually we put it in a tub/box so we can take it to the vet in the AM for cremation. Otherwise, if it’s small, it gets wrapped & put into the freezer.

I always have buried mine. I once talked my vet into letting me out the back door with my pup after putting her down just so I could bury her.

I have kept several of my cats wrapped in a towel in a wheelbarrow in my garage overnight until I was able to dig a grave. If the temps. are not extremely hot the body will be fine for 24–48 hours. I bury all my animals on my 5 acre property in the same area under a beutiful huge oak tree down the hill from my house.

As their dogs have gotten old, my sister and her husband prepared the hole months in advance so that they weren’t troubled by that extraneous activity. That does not, of course, allow for sudden death.

They too have a beautiful spot for the pet cemetery.

Pet cemetery or should I say pet semetary????

It gets wrapped in a towel, put in a cardboard box and then taken to an SPCA type place. When me dog goes, if he goes like that then we’ll have him cremated to keep the ashes, I’m pretty sure his body would keep even over a weekend if we had to put him in an ice chest.

In my town, they have a pick up service for $20.00, and they ask that the animal be placed in a container such as a box or trash bag. Under 20 lbs can simply go into the regular trash can. I’m not sentimental about dead bodies.

If death is imminent, my vet will do the euthanasia and disposal for a fee, around $50 or so.

When my cat died late in the evening I put him in a basket on top of some blankets then put him the closet until morning. I wasn’t sure how my other cat would react to Bugsy being dead. Then the next day I carried him to the vet in the basket and they took him to be cremated and a few days later I picked up his ashes. Sort of the same with my other cat. He he was very old and had advanced cancer and he curled up with me in bed and when I woke up then morning he was dead. I also took him to my vet for cremation.

My childhood cat is buried in the back yard. I think you are generally allowed to bury your pets on your own property but not on someone else’s, of course or public property, I’m not certain though, there may be local ordinances that might prevent you from burying a pet on your property. There might be issues like burying an animal where the might be a risk of the decomposing body contaminating a creek or a stream, e.g.

My last dog had a stroke and seizures so I had an idea it was getting close. So I prepared a hole near the house next to our other dearly departed. I put a big piece of plywood over it so nobody would fall in, but that dog lived another 2 months after we had the vet treat her. For a while it was looking like she was going to make it and I was optimistically thinking about filling the hole back in. When it did happen, the hole (grave) was there ready to go. It all seemed almost too well planned or premeditated but I was sure glad I didn’t have to dig that hole that day with all the other stuff I was going through. Ole Moonie was a big girl.