Going green extends to pets, even after life. While many pet owners bury their animals in backyards or pet cemeteries, a significant number opt for cremation and ashes returned in funerary urns.

My friend Sara lost her 14 year old dog Finn recently. Although Finn had seemed in perfect health, he had become very lethargic over the course of several weeks. Sara was concerned. She took Finn to ...

After she died, Joe Bjerke could not bring himself to have a Dilly Bar with his lunch at Dairy Queen. When she was alive, she used to share it with him, closing her dark eyes as she enjoyed it. A ...

High-tech proposals for an environmentally safe alternative for burial of pets — the island’s first — are awaiting government approval. Bermudian engineer Philip Mason told The Royal Gazette that his ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — After a Pittsburgh-area funeral home director was charged earlier this year with stealing more than $650,000 from customers by accepting payments to cremate their pets and instead ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In an unassuming home on Englewood’s main thoroughfare, warm water gently circulates over the bodies of dead pets inside a large metal box. For 18 hours, the ...

A heartless funeral-home director allegedly bilked customers out of more than $650,000 in pet-cremation services — giving them the ashes of random, unknown animals instead of their beloved critters’ ...