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Or call a tallow plant-- there's one in San Jose, CA (see BAEN's organization listings). They can inform you how to get rid of the carcass. Some will just take live animals. Others will take deceased animals if informed in a particular time span. Landfills, dumps or trash websites will not take dead animals over a specific weight-- generally only canine or feline size.

Landfills, disposes or garbage sites are "not created to bury dead animals in. They accept only home garbage", one official specified. For some owners, the however of burial includes a funeral service. There are animal cemeteries that will accept horses for burial. And then arrange the funeral complete with casket, graveside services and ground burial.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Oakland will bury a horse provided it has actually been cremated. The Memorial Gardens and Columbarium both consist of horse stays along with Charlie-O, the Oakland A's well-known mascot mule of the 1970's. Finding  Check Here For More  is the hitch. The University of California at Davis might cremate with the ashes returned in an urn (Editor's note: When we got in touch with US Davis at the time of publishing this post, we were told that they do not perform cremations.

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for businesses that do carry out equine cremation). If one desires to remain with the horse "through time and eternity", a human can be cremated and after that the ashes buried with the animal. Human cemeteries will not accept animal remains unless placed in the owner's casket sometimes of death. However a person can be cremated and buried with an animal in most pet cemeteries.

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Although there are no tomb or headstones for the horse they are "remembered" on a large Wall of Remembrance which includes history, photo and dates of foaling and death. (Warm Springs Animal Memorial Cemetery is now complete and a call to Info did not turn up a telephone number for them.

For details on how to get rid of a horse who has died on public lands, such as a federal or state park, click here. Among the most challenging choices a horse owner needs to make concerns the old or ill horse that needs to be put down. I know, I needed to decide with SAM (see Horsetalk Archives).