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At Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory, we adhere to strict operating procedures to ensure dignified and respectful care of your cherished family pet.

Our Cherished Pets professional team consists of the only certified crematory operators in the Springfield area, undergoing comprehensive testing and training, assuring pet families we are dedicated to the highest standards of excellence.

At Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory, we specialize in Private Cremation Services. We utilize a state-of-the-art small animal, eight individually-controlled pet chamber retort, that allows for each pet to be cremated in their own separate chamber without any cross-cremation with other pets. There are NO partition cremations in these chambers to save costs.

The pet family will be notified through the state-of-the-art, AngelPaws, tracking system, with real time updates of each stage from bringing your pet into our care, special services, cremation, packaging, and final notification when your pet’s remains have arrived at their desired location for pick up. With this tracking program, pet families can rest assured and are guaranteed that they will receive their own pet’s cremains.

Our Individual Cremation Services Offer:

• Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory Facility – The ONLY pet aftercare facility in the Springfield and SW MO area that is open to the public during regular business hours or after hours by appointment. Pet families may meet with a pet funeral professional in person. Facility has a welcoming foyer, private visitation rooms, witness cremation rooms, onsite crematory, small chapel, prayer garden for meditation and services, arrangement meeting rooms, and merchandise room to choose that special urn or other merchandise.
• Experienced Professional Certified/Licensed Funeral Directors and Specialists – As pet owners ourselves, everyone at Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory understands the need to work with a professional in pet aftercare to give the utmost care and services to your cherished pet and family.
• Bringing Your Cherished Pet into Our Care from a veterinarian clinic, family home, or by being escorted to our Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory by family or a specialized traveling veterinarian service. Transportation charges are separate. A pet brought directly to Cherished Pets will not incur transportation costs.
• Visitation Room – If you bring your cherished pet to our facility, we will assist with bringing your pet into our facility. You may spend time on our visitation room prior to cremation.
• AngelPaw Tracking System – Each pet will be assigned a QR Code in the AngelPaw tracking system so that pet families will be updated in real time.
• Specialized Services and Keepsakes – As part of our specialized professional services, when every cherished pet is brought into our care, their paw, hoof, fin, nose, as applicable, will be electronically photographed with a link forwarded to pet families for further purchasing of keepsakes from Thumbies ™, our professional funeral vendor.
• Alternative Cremation Container – Families may choose the type of cremation container used for the cremation process. We DO NOT use trash bags, but instead dignified cremation pouches or cardboard caskets, or a wood casket.
• Climate Controlled Walk-in Cooler – If your cherished pet needs to be held until cremation may take place, we ONLY utilize a climate-controlled walk in cooler, NOT a FREEZER as used in most all crematory facilities in the area. SAME DAY CREMATION is available by appointment.
• Container / Urn of Choice – To place your cherished pet’s remains.
• Personalized Certificate of Cremation
• Opportunities to Remember Your Cherished Pet – With a Celebration Video and Memorial Page on our website, and personalized special services including paw prints and fur clippings, cremation jewelry.
• Opportunities to Memoralize Your Cherished Pet – Through personalized Celebration of Life memorial and remembrance services in our chapel or prayer garden.
• Bereavement Program – Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory offers the only aftercare bereavement program in the SW MO area to help support families on their healthy grief journey.

No matter the service or disposition chosen, every pet family will receive

• Guidance and Support by Professional Pet AfterCare Specialists
• State-of-the-Art Cherished Pets Funeral Home and Crematory Facility
• Online Memorial Page for Cherished Pet
• Online Celebration Video
• Cremation or Burial Certificate
• Every Pet Will Have Electronic Scanning of Paw, Nose, Fin, Hoof for Keepsakes
• Online Enrollment and Payment System
• Online Access to Thumbies Keepsake Site
• Enrolled in Bereavement AfterCare Circle of Friends Program

Additional Special Services

• Choices of Urns (metal, wood, engraved, personalized, eco-friendly)
• Choices of Different Types of Caskets
• Green Burial Options
• Keepsakes
• Ink Paw Print
• Clay Paw Prints
• Fur Clippings
• Jewelry (for cremains)
• Bookmarks
• Memorial Book
• Memorial Folders/Announcements
• Floral Services
• Catering Services
• Pet Chaplain
• Grave Markers