I awoke to the shock and great sadness of finding my beloved cat, Desmond dead on the bathroom floor. I was so confused because he was relatively young and showed absolutely no signs of any illness what so ever. While overwhelmed with grief, the first thought in my mind was what special place out in the desert was I going to bury him? Fortunately, I had a small moment of clarity and decided that I would go with cremation as I could not stomach the thought of my buddy being alone in the Mojave.
I did a quick Goggle search and located Compassionate Pet Cremation. I called and Allen the owner picked up. I explained my situation and he told me he would be back at the facility later in the afternoon. He offered up a suggestion on what to do with Desmond until that time.
I recalled Allen and he told me to come on down. When I pulled up in the parking lot he met me with cart. I placed Desmond on the cart and Allen covered him and we walked inside. Allen discussed the cremation process and little was said of the cost, only that for Desmond's size it would be approximately $98 and would come with a simple urn. Allen then informed me that in another room would be some other options. Allen left us alone while we looked over many different options. We settled on handsome yet simple burgundy colored wood box. Allen then advised that it would be a couple days before he would call and let us know we could pick Desmond up.
Allen called two days later and I went to pick Desmond up. In addition to the cost of cremation, I was given a beautiful frame with a cast of Desmond's paw along with two snippets of his hair.
Compassionate Pet Cremation lives up to it's name in every since of the word. Allen was so kind and not for one minute did I ever feel that my loss was being capitalized upon. The experience of dealing with a sincere and compassionate business was a blessing in an other wise difficult and miserable situation.