Wilmslow Pet Cremations – Coming to You or Coming to Us

Waiting in an empty house for a van to pull up is intolerable to some people, who would sooner have a task in front of them, however hard that particular task turns out to be. Heavenly Pastures arranges pet cremations for families throughout Wilmslow and the lanes around it. Because this page deals partly with visiting, our whereabouts matter more than usual. There is no branch of ours in Wilmslow and no crematorium in the town. One site exists, at Burscough near Ormskirk, and it is where every part of this happens.

Two Ways of Doing This

Most families here have transport, which means a genuine choice exists that households in other places do not really have. Neither option is better than the other and nobody at this end holds any preference between them. What matters is which one you can face on the day, and it is entirely reasonable to change your mind about it halfway through the morning.

Bringing Your Pet Over

A fair number of Wilmslow households prefer to make the journey themselves. A call in advance is useful so that we know to look out for you, but same-day arrivals are managed without fuss. Someone greets you at the door; there is no reception to sit in. A chapel of rest is there and you may stay in it as long as you wish. Bring a passenger if one is available to you, even somebody who will simply sit in the car. It is the return leg that people struggle with, and facing it by yourself in a silent car is a great deal to ask.

Or We Come to You

Where waiting in suits better, collection from the house is the ordinary arrangement rather than a favour. Choose whatever hour works. Nothing at your end needs preparing, no animal should be lifted by a family member, and long drives with gates set well back from the road are common here and cause us no bother at all. Where a pet died at a veterinary practice, we go there instead so that nobody has to return for them.

The Bollin and the Common

For a great many dogs here the walk was the river path through the Carrs or the open ground at Lindow, and that is generally what proves hardest afterwards rather than the empty basket at home. Water and heath do not alter. Every stile and every turning sits exactly where it did on the last unremarkable morning and only the animal is missing from it. Some households walk it again within days because staying indoors is worse. Others avoid the whole stretch for a year. Both are ordinary and neither requires explaining to anybody. What rarely helps is rearranging your whole routine permanently around one path, since avoiding a place tends to strengthen its hold rather than loosen it.

Understanding the Two Services

One decision carries more weight than everything else here. An individual cremation service means your animal is by itself at every stage, and that is precisely what makes handing ashes back possible. A communal cremation service means a number go through as a group, with nothing returned to any of the families. The same few people carry out both to a single standard. Just one of them sends anything back with you. As no correction is possible afterwards, the choice warrants sitting with rather than agreeing to distractedly.

What You Will Pay

Costs are shown in full on the pet cremation price list, meaning you can see exactly what is involved without needing to telephone and ask a stranger. Weight determines the cremation charge. Coming out is billed separately according to journey time from Burscough, and the areas we cover page shows how the bands fall. Driving over yourself removes that element completely, which is one practical reason families here often do.

Beyond Ordinary Hours

Weekdays hold our normal operating times, with a separate arrangement outside them carrying its own charge. Where an animal has died in the evening and the following morning is bearable, morning is cheaper and nothing whatever is lost by the wait. Cool, quiet and undisturbed until then covers it entirely, and a single night alters nothing at all however long it may feel while you are sitting there.

Coming Back for the Ashes

When ashes are ready, either you come back for them or somebody drives them out to your house, whichever you prefer. Both happen regularly and neither is any trouble. Families who made the first journey quite often prefer to make the second, and say it is nothing like the first one. Either way a person hands them over rather than a courier delivering them, which matters to us more than it perhaps sounds.

Arranging It Beforehand

An old animal, or one whose diagnosis has just come through, is reason enough to deal with this ahead of time. You are tied to nothing by doing so and the day arrives free of paperwork. Our page on planned euthanasia explains what is usually involved.

Ringing Us

01704 776976 reaches the family themselves rather than an answering service. Telephone to arrange a visit, or purely to ask what the place is like before committing to anything, which is a perfectly fair question. Where writing suits better than speaking, our contact form reaches the same people.