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Daughter e mailed me a few mins ago when I saw her last week one of her two cats had been missing for 10 days.

Her message says cat run over been in vets cat has died and vet wants £100 to cremate it!

Now I don't know if it was the missing cat or the other one and is it usual to charge so much?

Hope it doesn't mean she has lost both of them.

Linda x

i think it is linda the vets do love to make a profit that is disgusting xx

Hi Linda - I'd tell 'em to whistle for it - much as I love my dear little cat, no way would I pay £100 if he died

I think that's about the going rate at one of these pet crematorium places.

But if the cat has only been run over and it hasn't got anything contagious, it doesn't need to be cremated does it? Your daughter is well within her rights to ask for the cat's body back to dispose of as she wishes.

And I would just like to add that I am sorry about your daugher's puss

We was only charged £20 +vat for the vet to dispose of our cat.

Isnt there a garden anywhere for her to bury it in? I would have done but I havent got a garden.

I don't think she has any intention of paying expect she will have a cat funeral in her garden.

Thanks all.

Linda x

All of mine and my 2 sister's pets are burried in my Mum's garden ;-)))))

I think if the owner wants the ashes back then it costs more - if the pet is to be put into a mass cremation (with other animals) then it costs less and you don't get the ashes back.

I had a hamster that was put into a mass cremation (I didn't have a garden then otherwise I would have just buried it myself) and I think it cost me about £15 (about 8 years ago) but if I'd wanted it done on its own and have the ashes returned etc it would have been a lot more.

Athena

One of my neibours recently paid £70 for her rabbit to be cremated!!!

I work in vets and its only £45 for ashes returned in box for scattering, where is this chap getting his prices from?

Some vets just take advantage of people when they are grieving.

Helen

I paid a lot more than £100 to have my cat cremated, and his ashes returned to us in a casket... my dogs were about £200 each. I think that it has come down in price because more people are having it done... burying my beloved pets in the garden of the married quarters we were living in just wasn't an option.... I have the money tucked away ready for when we have to say goodbye to Belle, and a little more if the worst happened to any of the others.

I'm so sorry to hear of your daughter's cat, Linda. I still think of them as kittens, they were so small in the photo's you showed me.

Love

Daff xxx

Linda McD ;
I am so sorry to hear about your daughter's cat.

I paid £160.00 for my cat Ceefer to be cremated and brought back home ,he died on the vet's table from heart failure even thou he was just having his teeth cleaned, the vet said , he would have just dropped dead anytime and anywhere.

I really miss him , last year my baby cat "Mackie" was killed on the road aged 14 months, I think he was chasing rabbits .
GALA

Linda, that is so awful, to hear the news must have been bad enough then to be hit with the cost of cremation. Hope your daughter can get her cat's body back for burial at home.
LIzx