Lees Pet Cremations – Coming to Collect Them Yourself

Where ashes are returning, most families assume somebody simply brings them to the door. That is one option and there is another that a good many people prefer once they know it exists. Heavenly Pastures arranges pet cremations for households in Lees and the streets climbing away from it. Our position wants saying outright. We keep nothing here and no crematorium stands in the village. Everything is carried out at Burscough near Ormskirk, and reaching you means we drive over.

Two Ways They Can Come Home

Either somebody brings them to you, or you come and collect them. Neither costs more than the other and nobody here has a preference. What matters is which one you would rather live with afterwards.

Having Them Brought to You

Somebody puts them into your hands on the step; they never travel by courier. That counts for something after ten or fifteen years of an animal living in your house. Whoever brings them will answer any question you have while standing there, and a good many people find they want to ask something at that moment that never occurred to them on the telephone.

Coming to Fetch Them

Families who brought their animal to us in the first place quite often choose to make the second journey as well, and almost all of them say it is nothing like the first. There is something in having gone to get them rather than having sat at home waiting for a knock at the door. Ring ahead so somebody is expecting you, and take as long as you want when you arrive rather than being handed a box at a door.

What You Will Be Given

The container is yours to decide on, with a real price attached, rather than something chosen for you. Cheapest is the plain tube meant for scattering, which suits anyone who means to scatter regardless. Oak with a nameplate engraved on it costs considerably more and answers a want for permanence indoors. There is no hierarchy of respect between them, and no one here gains a penny by nudging you toward the dearer.

How Long It Takes

A fortnight is usual, not the many months people steel themselves for. Should you need them faster because somebody is coming home on a particular date, or something is planned before the weather turns, mention it and we will generally manage. Asking irritates nobody, and raising it at the outset beats finding out too late that it could not be done.

The Choice That Decides All of This

None of it applies unless ashes are coming back. An individual cremation service keeps your animal by itself throughout, and that is the sole reason anything comes back at all. A communal cremation service means several cremated together with nothing going back to any household. Both are carried out to the same standard by the same people, and choosing the second is not a lesser goodbye. It simply cannot be revisited afterwards.

Up on the Pennine Edge

Lees sits where the streets start climbing properly and the ground behind gives way to open moor. Dogs raised here tend to have done real distances on that ground rather than round a park, and it is generally the climb rather than the quiet house that becomes impossible afterwards. Everything up there is precisely as it was with only the animal gone from beside you. Not being able to go up there three weeks later is usual, and indicates nothing wrong with anybody.

Winter and Getting Through

The higher lanes take weather that the town below does not, and a straightforward run in October is a different proposition in January. None of that stops us coming, but a telephone call about timing is worth having rather than assuming. Where conditions are genuinely poor we will say so honestly and agree an hour that works rather than promising one and not appearing.

Coming Out to You

Collection from the house is the ordinary arrangement. Say which hour works and that is when we come. There is nothing to sort out first and nobody in the house should be taking any weight. The stone terraces here have narrow doorways and stairs that turn sharply, which is our problem to work out rather than something for a household to be organising help with. Pets that died at a veterinary surgery are collected from there instead. For a death at home nobody anticipated, there is guidance on the cremation service following natural death covering what those first hours involve.

What It Costs

The pet cremation price list holds every charge in the open instead of leaving it to conversation, so you know where you stand ahead of ringing. Weight decides the cremation charge. The journey out is priced separately by its length from Burscough, mapped on the areas we cover page, and collecting in person removes it entirely.

Nights and Weekends

The working week holds our usual hours, and anything falling outside is arranged apart at extra cost. A pet going late on, with morning near enough to bear, makes the wait cheaper and costs you nothing besides.

Ringing Us

Call 01704 776976 and one of the family will answer. Say which way you would rather have them back, or ask what the place is like before deciding, which is a fair question and asked often. Where writing suits better, our contact form reaches the same few people.