MEMORIAL PET CEMETERY Cedar Bend Humane Society offers time before each burial for the family to have a memorial ceremony or viewing.
End of Life Services Cedar Bend Humane Society has a trained and compassionate staff to offer euthanasia as a service for families who have pets nearing the end of their quality of life.
Cedar Bend Humane Society Memorial Cemetery is available to anyone wishing to have a resting place for his/her pet. The cemetery is on the Cedar Bend Humane Society campus. It is a fenced acreage, which includes lilac bushes, rose bushes, and a center garden with a bench for rest and reflection. CBHS’s pet cemetery provides 1,500 plots where people have buried their deceased pets with room for an additional 500 pets. Volunteers and staff provide the cemetery up-keep. Families may have a ceremony and bring items to decorate the gravesite on designated burial dates. Cremations are offered for deceased pets. If an owner requests a private cremation, he/ she will receive the pet’s ashes back to them in a velvet pouch with wording.
The “Five Freedoms” is a core concept in animal welfare. It states that an animal’s primary welfare needs can be met by safeguarding the following five freedoms: Freedom from Freedom from pain, Freedom from fear discomfort by and distress by injury, or providing an ensuring disease by appropriate conditions and prevention or environment treatment which rapid diagnosis including shelter avoid mental and treatment. and a suffering. comfortable resting area.
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Freedom to express normal behavior by providing sufficient space, proper facilities, and company of the animal's own kind.
Freedom from hunger and thirst by ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigor.
If the “Five Freedoms” cannot be met, Cedar Bend Humane Society may need to make the difficult decision to euthanize an animal.
