Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Perfect Pet Urn For Your Pets Ashes

By Pete Stone

The best way to honor your the loss of your pet is to choose a pet urn that reflects its personality. You can often find pet urns at your vets office or a local pet store but you will pay a premium. When you buy a urn for your pet online you can often find a much wider selection. They are often made of many different materials and come in many different styles leading to a difficult choice.

The loss of a pet can be sudden and very difficult to deal with when deciding weather to have a funeral, have a pet memorial stone or something to hold your pets ashes or mementos such as a tags or a collar and a few photos or keepsakes. Many are meant to last but you have options of burial, biodegradable or memorial type of pet urns. Many materials are used from stone such as marble, soapstone even granite. Metals can be brass, bronze or even copper. The use of wood is very common and can be woods such as cherry, walnut, oak or just pine. Ceramic pet urns are very common and can be made into many different shapes often a vase shape or even a figurine and can often be personalized with a photo of your pet.

Consider where you will eventually place your pet urn. This is critical and depending on where you place it should help you decide what material you would choose. If you choose a stone or metal urn this may be a great choice for outdoors and wood or ceramic is better left for indoor if it will be for display. Metal urns could gracefully tarnish outdoors or the tarnish could be removed with the appropriate cleaner. Most metals will tarnish or start showing signs within weeks of being placed outdoors. If you decide to go with metal consider a likely cleaning compound on a regular basis. One way to protect many surfaces outdoors it with acrylic wax and this could be applied with a sponge and applied slowly to avoid bubbles from forming. Wax will not last forever but adds another layer of protection but always test an inconspicuous area to make sure it will work wit the coatings oft he urn.

Photo pet urns are becoming quite popular. They are often made of many materials and have a place holder for a photo of your beloved pet. They may also have an area to engrave either a likeness of your pet and some loving words. This is often done with laser engraving. Most materials using this process are either stone or wood.

If you are looking for a burial urn that will last consider stone or a metal that does not rust. In many cases people will plant a small tree or plant or place a memorial stone over the area. Yard ornaments are often use to mark a pet memorial.

If you have lost your cat, dog rabbit or even a lizard or some other friend from the animal kingdom there are many options to choose from when you search and buy online often leaving you feeling overwhelmed with the amount of choices. Buying a pet urn online does not have to be a difficult process when honoring the memory of your pet.

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