Truckee Meadows Pet Aftercare
It is our mission to provide the pet families of Northern Nevada quality, dignified, and environmentally-responsible aftercare for their beloved pets. We take pride in offering personalized and affordable urns and mementos made from natural materials to honor your beloved. We are locally and independently owned and operated.
Truckee Meadows Pet Aftercare is Northern Nevada’s first and only pet aftercare provider that offers a more natural and less environmentally-harmful option to honor the life of your beloved pet. We use the technology of bio-cremation to achieve this, also known as alkaline hydrolysis or aquamation. Bio-cremation uses a combination of water, heat, and alkalinity to accelerate the organic decomposition process, leaving behind only ash. Because there is no combustion in this process, bio-cremation offers several advantages over conventional incineration-based cremation:
- A gentler and modern form of cremation
- There is no commingling of ashes from other pets (when individual bio-cremation is chosen)
- Emits 90% less greenhouse gases
Our Facility
Our Values
Quality of Service Paramount to our mission is to provide flawless aftercare for your beloved pet. We employ a strict quality management system that assures your pet will be 100% accounted for from when they enter our care to when we return them to you.
Environmental Responsibility Truckee Meadows Pet Aftercare strives to minimize its impact on the ecosystem. By using modern alkaline hydrolysis technology, we are able to provide a higher quality service than conventional cremation while at the same time leaving a significantly smaller ecological footprint.
Our Process
Truckee Meadows Pet Aftercare utilizes a strict quality management system that ensures your pet is accounted and respected for while under our care. We use the following system:
- Any special requests from our clients are noted and followed
- Each pet that enters our care is assigned a unique identification tag that accompanies them through their entire journey with us.
- For pets transported by us to our facility, they are carefully placed in their own secure compartment in our transportation van before being safely driven to our facility.
- After intake, each identified pet is placed in our cold storage (35°F).
- When ready for the bio-cremation process, your pet is identified; a paw print and fur clipping is taken if requested; then they are respectfully placed in their own marked, stainless steel-partitioned compartment in our alkaline hydrolysis machine (with individual service). Other pets are placed in adjacent partitioned compartments, as well.
- The bio-cremation process then starts, and in a period of 24 hours, is complete.
- The ash remains of each pet are carefully removed from their partitioned compartments, then are processed into powdered ash, where they will be placed into vessels for return to their families; or, will be scattered by our staff on a private ranch near the Carson Range (with communal bio-cremation).
- Once the ashes and any memorial items are ready, they can be picked up at our facility.