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- Free cremation offered for pets
Date: 16-May-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
PET owners can take their little loved ones' bodies to a plant in Qingshuihe, Luohu District, where they will be cremated free of charge, the Daily Sunshine said yesterday.
The free cremation is being offered to stop pet owners burying or disposing of their pets at random, causing potential health hazards.
A woman resident surnamed Zhou called the paper to complain that a dog's body was decomposing in bushes along Jingtian Road near her apartment. Wrapped in a blanket, the dog had obviously been 'buried?by its owner.
'Owners love their pets and so they often choose to bury them. Many do it because they have no idea what to do with the bodies and follow what they believe to be a common practice,'the paper quoted a dog owner as saying yesterday.
A pet shop in Huangbei Village, Luohu District, offers a proper pet burial service.
'We offer to pick up the dead pet at its owner's home and bury it in the woods. No owner has complained about our service so far,'the shopkeeper said.
He also called it an environmentally friendly method.
Several pet clinics said they would transfer the pet bodies to animal quarantine authorities for disposal if the owners asked for cremation services.
Last year, the city's animal quarantine supervision center issued a notice, demanding pet shops and clinics send dead pets in sealed bags for cremation at the Qingshuihe plant. But not many people have taken up the offer.
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