Speke Pet Cremations

Speke Pet Cremations – When the Family Lives Apart

An animal is very often shared between two houses long after the people involved have stopped sharing one. The dog goes back and forth at weekends, the cat stayed put when somebody moved out, and the arrangement works perfectly well right up until the day the animal dies and nobody is certain whose decision it is. If you are in Speke and that is the position you are in, it is a far more common one than anybody admits. Heavenly Pastures arranges pet cremations from a single family run crematorium, and this page deals with the part that other providers leave you to work out privately.

Two Households and One Animal

There is no legal test we apply and no proof of ownership anybody has to produce. In practice, one person makes the arrangement, gives us the instructions and settles the account, and that is the person we deal with. What causes trouble later is not the paperwork but the assumption, where somebody chooses communal without realising a second household was expecting to be given ashes. Talking to each other first, however difficult that conversation is, prevents something that cannot be undone afterwards. We are happy to explain the options twice, to two different people, if that is what it takes for everybody to understand what is being decided.

When Ashes Have to Be Shared

Where an individual cremation is chosen, what comes back can be divided between households, and there is nothing unusual or awkward about asking for that. Say so at the point of arranging rather than afterwards and it is simply built in. Grandchildren, an ex-partner, somebody living at the other end of the country who raised that animal from a puppy, all of them can end up with a share, and it settles a good deal that would otherwise stay unsettled.

No Branch of Ours in Speke

Nothing of ours stands in Speke, and nothing stands anywhere else in the city either. Every cremation we carry out happens at one crematorium, at Burscough near Ormskirk in West Lancashire. What a Speke household gets is a driver coming out to the address to collect, which is the arrangement almost everybody here takes. Delivering your animal to Burscough in person is equally available and some families would far rather do it themselves. This is set out directly because implying a local crematorium would mislead somebody at the worst possible moment.

The Estate, the Gardens and the Airport Road

Speke was laid out with gardens, which puts it in a different position from the older streets closer in, and burial does genuinely remain possible for a number of households here. Two things temper that. A large share of the housing is rented, so the decision belongs to a landlord rather than the family living with the loss, and the ground running down towards the shore and the Oglet side holds water heavily through the winter. Where burial is not available, cremation is not a second best. It is simply the arrangement that fits the housing.

What Each Service Leaves You Holding

Choosing an individual cremation service means your animal is cremated by themselves, tracked at every stage, and their ashes and nobody else’s are returned to you in person. Choosing a communal cremation service means they are cremated together with other animals and no ashes go back to any household at all. It is the second of those that surprises people, usually once it is too late to change, so it is stated here early and without softening.

Rabbits, Birds and the Children’s Animals

Plenty of homes here keep a rabbit, a guinea pig or a bird rather than a dog, very often because the animal belongs to a child, and the world outside the front door has a way of treating those losses as minor. They are not minor, and where two households are involved a child may well be grieving in one house on Tuesday and the other on Saturday with nobody joining up the two. Small animals go through our small pets individual cremation service, and the process is no different in kind from the one used for a large dog.

When There Was No Vet Involved

Where an animal has simply died at home, with no appointment and no surgery in the picture, nothing about the arrangement becomes more complicated. We can talk you through a cremation service following natural death before you commit to anything, so the sequence is clear in advance. No form has to be obtained from a practice first.

How the Charge Is Built Up

Three elements decide it. The service chosen, your animal’s weight band, and a collection band worked out from the length of the drive out of Burscough, rather than one identical fee applied to everybody. Anything outside standard hours adds to it. The pet cremation price list carries the current figures and stays right in a way an article cannot.

Confirming the Address Is on the Round

South Liverpool is covered throughout, so there is no question about a Speke postcode. Everywhere else appears on the areas we cover page, which helps if the other household is somewhere further afield and asking the same question.

A Place to Put Something Down

Whenever it suits, and there is no schedule attached, a photograph of your animal can go into the Remembrance section of this site with whatever you want written beside it. Where an animal belonged to more than one home, a single shared entry sometimes does more good than anybody expects.

Talking to Somebody

Ring 01704 776976 and ask anything, including the questions that feel too small to bother anyone with. If speaking is more than you can face, our contact form reaches the same team and will be answered. Nothing is committed to by asking.