So sorry to hear about your ailing kitty. It's never an enjoyable time to see a pet start to head downhill health-wise. Been there, gone through that ourselves over time......6 times to be exact.
What we did initially was to contact our vet who referred us to a couple of conventional funeral homes to see if they handled pet cremations (this is all in central OH but I would think the same thing would apply around TV). They referred us to two local funeral homes. In a couple of our instances, we took our cats directly to the funeral home to have them handle the cremation. In other cases, where we chose to have the vet euthanize the cats, the vet handled everything - had the funeral home do the pickup at their office. In all cases, we got a call from the funeral home after about a week or so and went there to pick up the cats' remains. They always had a nice 'presentation' - the ashes were in a tiny plastic bag inside a nice decorative wooden box, they'd taken a clipping of the fur and put it in a small envelope, and also inked one of the front paws and made a paw print on a nice card for us. Used to cost $75 - last couple of go-arounds it ran $100. Seemed more than reasonable to us. Prices will obviously differ from area to area.
Bill
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