A Private or Individual Cremation Service through Kindred Hearts is a single-body cremation; meaning that the body of one, and only one, animal companion is cremated during the service.
With only a phone call, we are available to come to your home or veterinary clinic to transport the body of your companion to our facility. You are also welcome to bring your companion’s body to Kindred Hearts.
We adhere to strict practices of identification, handling, cremation, processing and presentation that maintains the individual identity of each companion animal that comes into our care, as well as the integrity of that individual’s cremated remains.
We use refrigeration for body storage pending private cremation, not freezing, and low density polyethylene body bags for minimal residual.
Private Cremation Services through Kindred Hearts are conducted at Kindred Hearts, located at 29 Hughes Street, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
The family is welcome to stay with us for the cremation of their companion. (An attended service needs to be the first service of the day and we tend to start early.) Flowers, photographs and many other personal items can be placed with the body for cremation. It’s our custom to remove a lock or clippings of hair for the family.
Our consent form outlines the actual service that we will perform and any special requests of the family. We provide a signed Certificate of Private Cremation that specifies the actual cremation procedure conducted.
Cremation is an irreversible process and we take our services and our commitment to our clients very seriously. It is our general policy to perform no cremation on the day the body comes into care to allow the family time with the decision process.
Our fee schedule for a Single-body Pet Cremation Service
Only with the explicit consent of our client and only under certain circumstances, such as the loss of multiple companion animals or exhuming a home burial site, will we conduct customary multi-body “private” or “individual” pet cremations.
Note: Additional charges may accrue based on specific mileage and handling requirements.