Pet burial

Re: Pet burial

Anthony Dennison — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:02:32 GMT

Emily, if you are really interested you can try contacting my dad - he's a VO for AHVLA and wrote the guidelines for the most recent updates to the ABP laws.

I warn you, be prepared for an over-detailed response, he's a bit of a nerd about it (will direct you to relevant sentences paragraphs in the legislations!)

PM me if you want it

Re: Pet burial

Rob Loxley — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:57:26 GMT

[quote user="Emily Herskind Nightingale"]they said "we don't know, as far as we know there are no guidelines"[/quote]

IIRC there is a blanket exemption for pet burial at home from EU Waste disposal regulations. The Environment Agency should be able to give chapter and verse, and it used to be on their website but it's not playing ball

Re: Pet burial

Rob Loxley — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:50:35 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]I do not beleive that there is any restriction on people burying their own pets in their gardens or on other land with the permission of the landowner[/quote]

IIRC the wording of the exemption in England is for burial of pets at the place where they lived, but google is eluding me!

Re: Pet burial

Rob Loxley — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:44:04 GMT

Search the thread: Protocol for burial of pets

If you want some sensible guidelines on depths/proximity to watercourses, then maybe those that apply to pet cemeteries would be worth looking at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/disease-control/abp/pet-cemeteries-england-wales/

Re: Pet burial

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:45:03 GMT

I totally agree with you. Bureaucracy gone mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wynne

Re: Pet burial

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:50:12 GMT

The common sense game is a brave one to play. We can bury people and we can catch all sorts of things from them, but we can't bury farm animals?

It's all crazy.

Re: Pet burial

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:48:48 GMT

I do not beleive that there is any restriction on people burying their own pets in their gardens or on other land with the permission of the landowner. It will only become an issue if it is done on a third party/commercial basis. After all how can a dead cat be anymore of a health hazard to the watercourse that a dead badger or whatever rotting away un-noticed in a hedgerow. Slightly off topic I had a barney with a client whose dog died while he was on holiday and was stored in our mortuary freezer. He asked me to thaw it out before he went home and I said it would be best not to as unpleasant as a dog ice lolly may be it would not be as bad as a smelly decomposing corpse in this weather and that it would be a health risk on our premsies until he collected it. He wasn't convinced.

Re: Pet burial

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:04:58 GMT

[quote user="Emily Herskind Nightingale"]What does everyone else do?[/quote]

leave it to the owners. We have a lot that take pets home to bury and it is not an area I am ever asked about.

If they do something wrong off their own back it is their fault. If you advise them wrong then you may have liability.