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When you lose a beloved pet, it can be like losing one of the relatives. Many of use create a close relationship with our pet, enjoying the unconditional love they always show us, even when we’ve had a bad day and snapped at them. So if you’ve been lucky to have a special pet in your life, it’s a great idea to use a pet urn as a treasured memento of their life. You can arrange to have your dog, cat or any other pet cremated, and then place their ashes in a pet urn as a treasured keepsake.

Pet urns are available in a huge variety of styles, with different shapes, colors and sizes. Probably the best place to begin is to decide how much you can afford to pay for a pet urn. Then you’ll be able to stick to looking at urns you can afford, without getting carried away. The cheapest urns are usually the simpler, more basic urns, and the more decoration and personalized touches you add, the more expensive they get. If your budget is limited, you can always get a elementary pet urn and then use other mementoes, such as a collar, to make it special.

If you’ve decided you need to get a more decorative pet urn, there’s many varieties to pick from. You can pick a vase-shaped urn decorated with carving, right through to a life-sized replica of your pet. Perhaps you could pick a pet urn with space to put some photos of your pet, or a burial urn that you can bury in the garden that comes with a marker for placing in the ground above the urn. You can even get pet urns shaped like rocks or garden ornaments if you need to place the urn in your garden, but don’t need to bury it in case you move house.