Precious Paws and Claws Pet

To tell you the truth, it’s quite difficult for me to even write this review. But I’m hoping it would be of use for those who may one day go through the same thing I had to endure this past week.
This recent Wednesday, I got a phone call from my father that Keekee, our family pet for the past 12 years have passed on. I rushed to the house to see her, and I just immediately fell apart. I couldn’t believe she was really gone, and I’m still trying to register it now. She was old and I have made peace with the fact that she may be leaving us any day. But the whole process was still very difficult to cope with. My family and I knew we wanted to get her cremated. But she was my first real dog. And the first one ever to leave me. None of us had any idea what we were doing.
I went on Unilocal and typed in «pet crematory». There were two results that popped up for me. This being one of the two. None had any reviews so that wasn’t helpful. I then searched on Google. This one popped up again. So I went on their website to get more information. I was a bit frantic and insane at this point. I didn’t even bother sitting still to read anything. I just wanted the contact number for the place.
It’s a family owned and operated business. The couple are Cindy and Jeff. I called the first number on the site and Cindy picked up. She answered all of my questions like how much it’s going to cost and gave me a good idea of how these things work. Basically all of the information I would have if I had looked through their very helpful website. But still, she was patient and nice about it.
It was already past 8:00 in the evening and we live quite far from the place. But when I spoke on the phone with Jeff, he told me that it was okay if we wanted to drop her off the same night. I was so grateful!
Their place was located in the country side. If Jeff hadn’t parked his pick-​up truck along the road with his blinkers on, there would’ve been no way to tell that it was the right place. It just looks like any other house along the dark and quiet road. But it’s all right because we got all the help we needed from them.
Jeff showed us where to pull up and he lifted Keekee’s body from our trunk onto this metal table with wheels. He pushed it into the crematory room and pulled down the garage-​like door almost all the way. This was a very quick process. Her body wasn’t weighed out like I thought it would be. We then followed him into the house to take a look at the different boxes of urn to pick out the one we wanted for her. There were a couple of different choices. And the ones we were limited to of course depended on the weight of our dog. They also have different types of wood options. We chose the red cherry wood box with a frame slot for Keekee. He gave us some paperwork. It was to fill out her name, birth date, date of death, family’s last name, and a few brief words for her along with my contact information.
I really appreciate the fact that he was very honest with us. This whole time, since the moment I called them with questions over the phone, I thought Keekee was at least 100lbs. If she was 100−120lbs it would cost $ 200 (including the urn). When I asked him if it’s $ 200, he told me she doesn’t weigh that much and said that it would only be $ 175. He asked us if we’d like to pay then or the day we pick up her urn. I thought that was weird, but in a nice way how they didn’t demand payment right away. We paid him that night and was told that it should be ready on Friday or any day after.
My dad picked up her urn yesterday morning, and I finally got to see it last night. The urn was very nice and I love that there was the whole picture slot. We didn’t know how to take it out to place the picture in though. I didn’t want to mess with it and risk breaking her urn. So I tweaked with the photo and inserted it the ghetto way. (Hey, It works just fine okay…) Afterall, Keekee did grew up in the HOOD. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind…
Underneath the picture on a golden plate is her name in big print. Above it is the line we picked out. And under it is the date she passed away.
We’ll love you forever
KEEKEE
09÷26÷12
They gave us the certificate of her cremation, signed and dated by Jeff. They even gave us a copy of the «Rainbow Bridge» poem.
It has been really tough lately, but I’m so glad I chose out the right place for Keekee. Losing your beloved companion is truly like losing a close family member. I’d really like to give a big thank you to Precious Paws and Claws for making the whole process a bit easier on all of us.

Worst Possible Experience — I made pre-​need arrangements, which included the weight of my dog. An untrained guy shows up in a pickup truck with a bunch of junk in the back and is ill prepared to take my beloved 90 pound dog who died of a spleen tumor rupture and was dripping blood out of my house. We had to help him and he dropped him on the drive way and left a trail of blood all the way out to the truck. When I called to discuss with the owner, he became defensive and abusive and repeatedly called me back to argue and yell at me, while I was crying on the phone. Need I say more? Absolutely no dignity, no respect, no understanding and certainly no sympathy in my time of need. A world class jerk.