Stone Carved Pet Headstone

Mike didn’t grow up with a lot of pets and is admittedly not an animal person (nobody’s perfect). But he spent a lot of time growing up at his older sister’s house where they had a yellow lab named Beaker. Beaker was the perfect dog. That means a lot coming from him. So when Beaker crossed the rainbow bridge, Mike felt the need to commemorate her in some way. He found this big rock on a hill side and tried his hand at stone carving. It turned out pretty well. He and his nephew hiked to the spot she was buried and placed it where she was buried on their property.

This is much cooler than any of the wooden stick crosses or painted rocks I placed on my childhood pets’ graves. Though once we did host quite the funeral for my sister’s goldfish. It included an original song about poor Lester written by someone in my family. We all attended the graveside service. In fact, it ultimately spawned our family’s password (that I now feel comfortable sharing with you because we are all adults now and we can get in a car with a stranger if we want to): “Les is in the the flower bed.”

So my point is this: We all love our pets. We have resources and skills at our disposal. When we need to honor our pet’s lives we may feel like something this grand in out of our reach due to finances, skills, time. Anything you do in memory of your pet loved one is wonderful. But should you feel so inclined, know that you are capable of learning new skills and making this happen if this random guy on the internet could learn how to make his own stone chisels and then make a legit headstone for his sister’s dog all while being a poor grad student with a young family.