Emma, a healthy Shih Tzu, was put to sleep, cremated and placed into an urn with her owner, whose had this in her will.
One woman’s dying wish was to have her beloved Shih Tzu mix, named Emma, be put to sleep and buried with her, this way she could spend eternity with her best friend.
After the woman died, Emma was taken to the Chesterfield Animal Shelter. During Emma’s two-week stay there, shelter employees pleaded to keep the healthy Shih Tzu, even saying they would find a new home and owner for her. But the tussle with her owner’s estate executor was to no avail, and Emma met her fateful end.
Emma was taken from the shelter and into a local veterinarian, where she took her final breaths before getting euthanized. The pup was taken to a pet cremation center in Richmond, and then her remains were reunited with her owner’s in an urn, which matched her dying owner’s wishes in a will. “Whenever we’re faced with a euthanasia situation, it’s a very emotional situation — and beyond everything we talk about — that we need to do ethically, and we’ve taken an oath to do,” said Dr. Kenny Lucas of the Shady Grove Animal Clinic. “Also it’s something we take home, too. It weighs on us as professionals.”
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