Aftercare for your pet
We treat your pet with care and reverence,
before and after life.
Cremation choices
We use Agape Pet Services in Greenville, South Carolina, as a crematory care provider for our patients. Agape Pet Services treats your pet’s remains with dignity and care, and they use a modern, rigorous system to ensure the identity of every pet is certain at all times, with a strict chain of custody and identification of each pet. They take this service very seriously. Only Kindred Vet staff and Agape Pet Services staff will handle your pet. They offer a beautiful selection of urns for families that wish to have their pet’s ashes.
You may select between communal or individual cremation.
Communal cremation is when your pet is cremated with other pets, and the ashes are scattered on a private horse farm. Your pet’s ashes are not returned to you.
Individual cremation means that your pet is cremated separately from other pets, and the ashes are returned to you. We hand-deliver your pet’s ashes to your home address in the urn of your choosing.
The costs for these options include transportation to the crematorium.
You may also choose to select another service provider for cremation, and/or transport your pet yourself. Agape Pet Services also offers witnessed cremations and other specialized options that can be arranged by contacting them directly.
Individual Cremation - $247
*Individual Cremation cost includes hand delivery of your pet’s ashes back to your home.
Communal Cremation - $110
Home Burial
The legality and safety of a home burial for your pet highly depends on you researching and following local laws and guidelines. This may not be legal in some locations. Contact your local government to learn more.
The medications used in pet euthanasia are toxic to humans, other pets, and wildlife, and they can persist in the soil for decades. It is imperative that the remains of euthanized animals are buried a safe distance from any water supplies to prevent water contamination. The remains must be buried deep enough that scavenging and digging animals cannot access them, or secondary poisoning can result.
Note: It can be very difficult to dig deep enough for safe burial in adverse soil conditions, including rocky soil, frozen earth, very dry soil, or other properties.
Here is more helpful information about home burial.
Here is a link to the NC Chapter 106-403 regarding burial of domesticated animals.
