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Spook
October 12th, 2011, 08:34 AM
Little loveable fido...staring and smiling at you...for the rest of your life.

http://www.petsugar.com/Do-You-Want-Perpetual-Pet-852496

Look closely – can you tell which of the above pets is alive? If not, then that's the whole point! Enter Perpetual Pet, a company that freeze-dries your pet after she passes. Without going into too many morbid details, you can choose to preserve your pet's entire body in a natural state, not just the outer hide (like taxidermy). To get started, your pet is put in a sealed vacuum chamber at a very low temp and, over time, the accumulating frozen moisture is converted into a gaseous state then extracted – taking over six months for larger dogs. Unsurprisingly, the price for this process is not cheap; the service starts at $395 for pets weighing zero to three pounds up to $595 for 10 pounds (with $50 extra for each additional pound). Just when I truly thought I had heard of everything, up popped this company. Oh, and about that question I started with – both Trigger and Tiny are now perpetual pets.

:eek: Okay...this just sickens me. Would you want to freeze-dry your grandpa and put him on a stand to stare at you? Hopefully not.

You could just imagine the kids: "FIDOO FIDOOOOO FIDOOOOO WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!"
TheMatrix
October 13th, 2011, 01:04 AM
Oh god.....:shock:
RoseyCadaver
October 13th, 2011, 11:20 AM
At first I was like awww doggy :) then :neutral: and then O_O .

A little weird if you ask me O_O.I'm not going to freeze dry my bird when she dies,she is going in the garden :P.
Infidelitas
October 13th, 2011, 02:58 PM
Why would you? You have just lost you pet, so why would you want its dead body laying around
Bath
October 13th, 2011, 03:01 PM
Yeah, I can't imagine anybody paying that much money just for an unhealthy attachment they have to their pet...
SosbanFach
October 13th, 2011, 03:15 PM
How bizarre. Why would anyone do that? Oh well, people just do that sort of thing, I suppose. Strange people...
AllThatYouDreamed
October 13th, 2011, 09:34 PM
This isn't new.
Spook
October 14th, 2011, 09:48 AM
Another freak add-on to your lifelong loving carcass- moving eyes. They install robotic eyes that roam and follow you across the room.

WTF?
Amaryllis
October 14th, 2011, 09:52 AM
JESUS. CHRIST.

What the frack/eck/fridge/fook/fuk?!? This is disgusting in so many ways! It is complete wrong! Oh my bloody hell, I'm gonna get nightmares! What the friggin' crap! Holy shiz! Balloons in my pie! What the funk is this?! HOLY POO!
Jupiter
October 14th, 2011, 06:32 PM
They install robotic eyes that roam and follow you across the room.

WTF?

Holy. Shit.
Syvelocin
October 16th, 2011, 11:34 PM
I never understand the people who want this done, regardless of price. I feel like:
A. It just makes it harder to cope with the loss of your pet. If I were to do that to my cat, I would never move on. I would imagine I'd just sob every time I look at him.
B. It completely dishonours the pet. No pet would want that. The natural cycle of things, regardless of liking it or not: born live die decompose. That's how it's supposed to happen, and that's how your pet will want it too. Just get another pet to lessen the pain.
C. It's just a bit selfish, don't you think? The pet's already dead, sure, but you're messing with the natural order of things just so you can ease the pain of losing your pet? Like I said, just get a new pet.
D. Is just fucking creepy.
Magenta
October 17th, 2011, 05:13 AM
My grandfather once joked to my mother when she was a kid that when her cat died, she could get her stuffed and put her on wheels so she could still be 'walked' on a leash... Yeah, his sense of humour leaves much to be desired but I found it sickeningly funny. XD

But in all seriousness, um, wtf? This is creepy. Not new but creepy.
AlmostHomeless
October 17th, 2011, 06:44 AM
hahaha ohgosh... this is hilarious. and creepy at the same time.
abdheuuuchjc
October 18th, 2011, 10:44 PM
You could just imagine the kids: "FIDOO FIDOOOOO FIDOOOOO WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!"
Rofl lol lol lol
AllThatYouDreamed
October 22nd, 2011, 02:28 PM
Another freak add-on to your lifelong loving carcass- moving eyes. They install robotic eyes that roam and follow you across the room.

WTF?

I'm pretty sure follow-me eyes aren't robotic, but agreed a little creepy for your dead pet.
green
October 24th, 2011, 01:53 AM
the first thing that popped into my head was rowdy the dog from scrubs :D
Jupiter
October 24th, 2011, 04:09 PM
this is getting really weird thinking about it..
StoppingTime
October 24th, 2011, 04:11 PM
the first thing that popped into my head was rowdy the dog from scrubs :D

Yes. Any time I think taxidermy, this is what I go to. :)
Jess
October 24th, 2011, 07:23 PM
this is just...creepy o_o
Thanatos
October 26th, 2011, 10:12 PM
Actually I know someone who has this, but then again he owns multiple funeral homes.

Seriously though, my family was at a big end of school BBQ at this one families house, who have a lot of money from owning multiple funeral homes, and the father said that he still had his first dog. All the parents were half drunk by now so they called bullshit. He said yeah its in the basement of one of the funeral homes like 5 minutes away, he's curled up asleep on a pillow in an aquarium.

Next thing you know we had 30 people packing into cars on the way to a funeral home in bathing suits. Sure enough it was there. Name was Rags.