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Kōrero: Pets

Guinea pig’s ashes

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Guinea pig’s ashes

After Softy the guinea pig was put down, she was cremated and her ashes were returned to her owner in this rimu casket. The death of a loved pet can now be formally recognised by a newspaper death or obituary notice, a pet funeral, or burial in a pet garden of remembrance.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Pets – The modern New Zealand pet, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19771/guinea-pigs-ashes (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.