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What do you do when they die?

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Maevenish

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So my baby is only 1 and a half, but I just turned 50 and my mind os on taking care of my children and what happens when we all die. So I though I'd ask you guys what you do when your baby snake dies. I thought about keeping her skeleton if I outlive my baby snake Peach. Although she is healthier than I am, I think. My daughter will take care of her after I go, but what if I outlive her? Thanks for your advice.

Wendy
 
It all depends upon the devotion a person develops for their pet. I've seen people put their deceased pets in a pet cemetery, although those are hard to find now. I know some veterinarians offer cremation services, which allows you to keep the ashes, and use them as you wish. I prefer cremation now, and spread the ashes in nature, since that's where the ancestors of the snakes were found.
 
I guess I will just dig up a small hole in my backyard and bury them there as I did with all the animals I took care of.
 
regnar said:
I guess I will just dig up a small hole in my backyard and bury them there as I did with all the animals I took care of.
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I have done that too, in the past. We usually buried our pet and then etched the date on a nice rock to remind us of the joy our pet brought to us.
 
I buy a large planter and a Croton plant and potting dirt.

Put my small pet in a round cookie tin with their favorite toy or piece of their blanket.

I write a love note on the inside if the Cookie tin lid and the date they passed.

Bury the tin in the planter dirt, plant the Croton over the tin.

This way I have a living memorial for that pet.

It isn't necessary to put them in a tin, I just do.

If I move, these potted plants and loved ones can move with me.

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Since I am a science educator, all of my previously deceased pets have continued to serve an educational purpose in their death, though a different educational purpose then when they were alive.

My mammals were donated to the vet school who kindly gave me back xrays and thin slice microscope slides I could share with students. The African Giant Milipede (my gateway into snakes) was preserved in solution and added to the collection of the school for teaching taxonomy.

I believe I would probably find a way to reconstruct and mount a snake skeleton should one of my squirmies predecease me.

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Thank you all!

Such wonderful responses. We have buried our cats that passed away in our backyard but I was thinking of keeping the skeleton mounted of my Peach. If I outlive her! She is such a pleasure and makes me smile so much.
 
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