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forteblast [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 10:30:28 AM  
Don't dogs do enough composting while they're alive?

Until you step in it, I mean.
 
2018-03-20 10:34:54 AM  
screw pets.  I want to be composted when I die.
 
2018-03-20 10:51:25 AM  
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'Ashes to ashes, flush to flush - we commit Pugsley to that big septic tank in the sky...'
 
2018-03-20 10:51:28 AM  
We should to them what they would do to us if they found us lying on the kitchen floor.

Nummy.
 
Ecobuckeye  
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2018-03-20 10:52:21 AM  
How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?
 
rnatalie [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 10:57:04 AM  
We can burn her, bury her, or dump her.

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We've got an eater!
 
2018-03-20 10:57:04 AM  

Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?


Did that twice with a cat. He somehow still manages to claw his way out.


*This is a joke. I love my cats
 
2018-03-20 10:58:28 AM  
We should be doing this with humans as well. Vertically interred and plant a tree above. I was always pro cremation, until I read something Neil DeGrasse Tyson wrote about how cremation came with a large carbon footprint, and how we should be feeding the earth that we've abused for the last umpteen years (paraphrasing obvs).
 
2018-03-20 10:58:30 AM  
This is actually very sweet. I hope to have my idiot for many years to come, but the idea of her remains being used to plant a tree, which would eventually become a home to the squirrels that she loves to chase so much, is both cute and comforting.
 
bdub77  
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2018-03-20 10:59:49 AM  

forteblast: Don't dogs do enough composting while they're alive?

Until you step in it, I mean.


It can be, but generally speaking, dog sh*t isn't very good. Not only do dogs sometimes have roundworms, but their crap is overly acidic.
 
Miss5280 [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:00:20 AM  
Huh. I only read the headline, but now my day is ruined.
 
guestguy  
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2018-03-20 11:03:29 AM  
And then there's some pets that just refuse to die...their hatred sustains them.

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mrparks  
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2018-03-20 11:03:55 AM  
We had this rosemary plant right outside the door. The dog, when let out, would urinate on the bush.

Didn't seem to affect the flavour.
 
Subtonic  
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2018-03-20 11:05:06 AM  
Insert animal corpse into plastic shopping bag, toss into the garbage. Done.
 
Devo  
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2018-03-20 11:06:26 AM  
Soylent Green still best for people.
 
mudpants  
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2018-03-20 11:07:21 AM  
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Recycle Fido with taxidermy,  Best Friends Forever !
 
mudpants  
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2018-03-20 11:14:15 AM  
And you can recycle your singing Bass at the same time.  Would be a great combination.
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2018-03-20 11:15:26 AM  

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?

Did that twice with a cat. He somehow still manages to claw his way out.


*This is a joke. I love my cats


My cousin's wife new wife's cat got squished under the garage door.   They buried in in the back yard.  His dog dug it up twice.  She'd come home to see the dog playing with it.
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:16:51 AM  

mrparks: We had this rosemary plant right outside the door. The dog, when let out, would urinate on the bush.

Didn't seem to affect the flavour.


I would have thought it would make it taste like rosemary.
 
edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:18:40 AM  

Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?


That will remain my preferred method. We buried one by a new tree. He'll always be there somehow.
 
2018-03-20 11:18:54 AM  

mudpants: [s16-us2.ixquick.com image 422x500]
Recycle Fido with taxidermy,  Best Friends Forever !


I've asked my wife to taxidermy my body after my death and to put me on the couch or some place.

She has refused to carry out my wishes.
 
gilatrout [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:23:30 AM  
I lost my Seamus Sunday.  He was a very good boy

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mrparks  
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2018-03-20 11:23:55 AM  

MrBallou: mrparks: We had this rosemary plant right outside the door. The dog, when let out, would urinate on the bush.

Didn't seem to affect the flavour.

I would have thought it would make it taste like rosemary.


It tasted like rosemary before his contribution.
 
2018-03-20 11:29:18 AM  

Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?


If you go deep enough, it becomes just "burial".  I think there are legal niceties involved.  I may have been involved in an illegal cat burial: pet cats (and presumably dogs) apparently have legal requirements involved in their disposal (Maryland).  The hundreds of kills by the cat, not so much.
 
2018-03-20 11:29:18 AM  

ninjawhinger: We should be doing this with humans as well. Vertically interred and plant a tree above. I was always pro cremation, until I read something Neil DeGrasse Tyson wrote about how cremation came with a large carbon footprint, and how we should be feeding the earth that we've abused for the last umpteen years (paraphrasing obvs).


Scene stolen from the Hannibal TV series
 
2018-03-20 11:30:20 AM  
This is what I want done to my body, just bury it with nothing around it or feed me to vultures.  The former is legal in some states, the latter is legal no where, as far as I know.
 
2018-03-20 11:31:46 AM  

Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?


It isn't, but now hipsters are naming it.
 
Ecobuckeye  
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2018-03-20 11:32:37 AM  

AugieDoggyDaddy: Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?

Did that twice with a cat. He somehow still manages to claw his way out.


*This is a joke. I love my cats

My cousin's wife new wife's cat got squished under the garage door.   They buried in in the back yard.  His dog dug it up twice.  She'd come home to see the dog playing with it.


We always just put a big rock on top to discourage that sort of thing.
 
toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:34:35 AM  
Screw cremation or burial.  I want to be bronzed and made into an animatronic horror so I can terrify small children for centuries.
 
2018-03-20 11:36:14 AM  

Subtonic: Insert animal corpse into plastic shopping bag, toss into the garbage. Done.


How in the fark do you know me
/I kid I have my own pet cemetery out back
//the neighbor's city corn stalks grew to around 8' that following year
 
Thingster  
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2018-03-20 11:36:37 AM  

Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?


Two different processes.

Burying in the backyard is an anaerobic process which can stink and lead to scavenging if it isn't deep enough, can take months to years to fully decompose, and doesn't return nearly as many nutrients to the soil due to the bacteria involved.

Composting is an aerobic process that can be done in as little as a month or two for something the size of a cat or medium sized dog, it doesn't stink, and it produces a much wider range of soil nutrient due to the microorganisms involved.

If your plan is to spread the dog in your garden, composting makes more sense than cremation or simply burying in a blanket.
 
2018-03-20 11:38:38 AM  

stuhayes2010: This is what I want done to my body, just bury it with nothing around it or feed me to vultures.  The former is legal in some states, the latter is legal no where, as far as I know.


You can donate your body to a university that studies natural decomposition. There is a body farm in Texas where bodies are placed in certain areas to observe what animals eat what parts, etc. Some bodies are enclosed in screens so they can tell how they would decompose in the open without animals or insects. Pretty cool.

http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/labs/farf.html
 
Ecobuckeye  
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2018-03-20 11:40:37 AM  

RexTalionis: mudpants: [s16-us2.ixquick.com image 422x500]
Recycle Fido with taxidermy,  Best Friends Forever !

I've asked my wife to taxidermy my body after my death and to put me on the couch or some place.

She has refused to carry out my wishes.


Well I should hope not, you're not dead yet.
 
2018-03-20 11:42:26 AM  

gilatrout: I lost my Seamus Sunday.  He was a very good boy

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:(

Lost my cat a week and a half ago.  Composting or burying wouldn't have fit him.  He was a pampered indoor Meezer who always wanted to be where people were.  No connection to the outdoors.

I don't really believe in spiritual mumbo-jumbo and try to think and act rationally, but when I brought his little box home, the house suddenly felt less empty, even though it was only what was left of him and not really "him" there.  So...yeah.

Burial is part of the grieving process.  It gets less painful, but only just.

I'm sorry about your buddy.  Composting or whatever, give him the sendoff he would have wanted, if only for your comfort.

Damn it.  Got dusty in here.
 
2018-03-20 11:42:35 AM  

gilatrout: I lost my Seamus Sunday.  He was a very good boy

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Sorry for your loss. I know that's tough to deal with.
 
jvl  
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2018-03-20 11:44:56 AM  
So many cats.
So few receipes
 
2018-03-20 11:45:37 AM  

jvl: So many cats.
So few receipes


You owe me one keyboard.
 
Oreminer  
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2018-03-20 11:46:57 AM  

RexTalionis: I've asked my wife to taxidermy my body after my death and to put me on the couch or some place.


Just prop me up beside the Jukebox if I die. Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight. Just fill my boots up with sand. Put a stiff drink in my hand.
 
2018-03-20 11:49:52 AM  

Ecobuckeye: AugieDoggyDaddy: Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?

Did that twice with a cat. He somehow still manages to claw his way out.


*This is a joke. I love my cats

My cousin's wife new wife's cat got squished under the garage door.   They buried in in the back yard.  His dog dug it up twice.  She'd come home to see the dog playing with it.

We always just put a big rock on top to discourage that sort of thing.


Dind't have a big enough rock to stop that dog.  He'd chew through the fence in a matter of minutes and be gone.  We put chicken wire on the fence thinking it would stop him.  He just laughed at that.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:54:55 AM  
Meh.....just cremate me and place my ashes in Lake Chelan.
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:56:14 AM  

mrparks: MrBallou: mrparks: We had this rosemary plant right outside the door. The dog, when let out, would urinate on the bush.

Didn't seem to affect the flavour.

I would have thought it would make it taste like rosemary.

It tasted like rosemary before his contribution.


Oh.

I think I completely misunderstood. Sorry.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]  
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2018-03-20 11:57:42 AM  
As far as my cat goes, I'll probably have him cremated and place his ashed on my parents' property....on top of the place where one of our family cats is buried.

/My cat turns 10 later this year.
//I'm going to be a wreck when he goes.
 
2018-03-20 12:02:48 PM  

gilatrout: I lost my Seamus Sunday.  He was a very good boy

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That sucks.  I'm sorry to hear that.
 
Millennium  
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2018-03-20 12:08:36 PM  

gilatrout: I lost my Seamus Sunday.  He was a very good boy

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I'm sorry for your loss. My wife and I lost our little guy back in December, and it's still pretty fresh. We donated him to science, and it's my understanding that they cremate them when they're done, but I'd have taken composting if it had been available.

Ecobuckeye: How is composting different from wrapping them in their favorite blanket and burying them in the backyard?


Mostly the controlled environment: soil, temperature, bacteria, chemicals, worms if they use them, etc. All this is to make sure that the process happens quickly and consistently, and that nothing goes rancid. Simple burial does indeed end in the same place, but it takes a lot longer (a year or two as opposed to eight weeks) and there's a lot of opportunity for things to go wrong.
 
Oreminer  
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2018-03-20 12:10:26 PM  
Doesn't composting meat and bones break one of the rules of composting?  I suppose it works if you're paying somebody else for the smell.
 
Mikey1969 [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 12:10:59 PM  

Ambivalence: screw pets.  I want to be composted when I die.


Screwing pets? I hear it's a niche market, but you can command your own price when you sell the videos .
 
mrparks  
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2018-03-20 12:12:04 PM  

MrBallou: mrparks: MrBallou: mrparks: We had this rosemary plant right outside the door. The dog, when let out, would urinate on the bush.

Didn't seem to affect the flavour.

I would have thought it would make it taste like rosemary.

It tasted like rosemary before his contribution.

Oh.

I think I completely misunderstood. Sorry.


No, it was me. Sometimes I need a little time.
 
2018-03-20 12:13:58 PM  

RexTalionis: mudpants: [s16-us2.ixquick.com image 422x500]
Recycle Fido with taxidermy,  Best Friends Forever !

I've asked my wife to taxidermy my body after my death and to put me on the couch or some place.

She has refused to carry out my wishes.


Since you aren't dead yet (You aren't, right?) isn't that the sign of a loving spouse, waiting until you are, in fact, dead to begin any sort of embalming process?

And, I know they're your final wishes and all, so kinda dick move but there's all sorts of cultural taboos about corpsified people sticking around so, there's that too.
 
2018-03-20 12:15:55 PM  
PS: Sincerest condolences to  gilatrout and PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm
 
forteblast [OhFark]  
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2018-03-20 12:19:47 PM  

bdub77: forteblast: Don't dogs do enough composting while they're alive?

Until you step in it, I mean.

It can be, but generally speaking, dog sh*t isn't very good. Not only do dogs sometimes have roundworms, but their crap is overly acidic.


Huh. Of all the words you can use to describe dog sh*t, "overly acidic" has never come to mind
 
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