What happens to euthanized dogs and cats?

Question

Are they thrown out or cremated? My neighbors really sad she lost her dog and was wondering what happened to it after death.

Answer 1

If the dog was euthanized at a Vets office they offer to give you a number for cremation at your expense.  Or you can bury it at home in your yard.

If it is euthanized at the pound it is dumped in the county land fill.  So very very sad.

Mine are all buried at home.

Answer 2

That's the million dollar question. There are lots of theories. I'm sure MOST are cremated, especially from small practice vets. I've heard horror stories of euthanized animals being sold to pet food companies at rock-bottom prices.

http://www.petcaretips.net/euthanized_pe...

Answer 3

Where i work the owner has 3 options. They can take them home with them to bury them themselves. They can get a private cremation(it cost more to do this) and they leave the dog/cat with us, the pound will pick them up and they cremate them seperatly and return the ashes to the owner. Or they leave them with us to dispose of the body and we will call the pound who picks them up and will they do a group cremation.

Answer 4

They are cremated around here. ( Florida )  I can't see them as pet food. The ingredients of one brand used "poultry byproducts". They feed chickens the same by products, the heads, feathers and feet are ground up and mixed with corn and vitamins, the poor chickens are eating their grandparents  :(

( been to a chicken processing plant, I can still smell it )

Answer 5

It depends on where she left it. some vets have them creamated, others send them to a rendering facility which will dispose of them in their own way. Some get sent to a landfill, some are ingredients in pet food. I would not recommend telling your neighbor that. Tell her next time she can ask for the body and burry it herself.

Answer 6

They are sold to rendering companies, which sell them to be used in products like make up and etc.

Answer 7

Here the dog food companies take the bodies and make them into dog food such as ol roy,pedigree,beniful,kibbles n bits,purina,alpo and anything else you can get at walmart