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Our beloved Sandy (Chinese Shar-Pei) was 12 when we had to have her "put to sleep" due to old age and poor health. Rather than let the vet dispose of her remains (which is costly), we brought her home. We live on the side of a ridge with woods on 3 sides. We buried her at the edge of the woods. It saves the money of having the vet do it AND lets us keep her close to us.
I have a large stone I will put her name on and the year she died with black paint. In the past, I have bought one of those foil sheet cake pans and a cement mix that all you do is add water. While the cement is still wet but firm enough to write in, I use a tool something like a screw driver to write an "epitaph", the pets name and birth and death years. You can either lay that on the grave or with another sheet cake foil pan, set it upright in partially set cement to look like a regular monument!
You can really get creative and add a picture by making an indentation in the partially set cement,laying the picture in it and cover it with either a piece of glass that is the same size or a clear piece of plastic or plexiglass, add a paw print, etc.
By Connie Leonard from Lewistown, Pa
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