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About Pet Crematory in Tacoma
Our partner in pet loss care, Tacoma Mausoleum & Mortuary, has been offering cremation services to Northwest families for more than seventy years. Recently, they made a commitment to extend their industry leadership and experience to include a very special member of your household - your beloved pet Tacoma Mausoleum & Mortuary is a member of the International Association of Pet Cemeteries and Crematories and meets and exceeds the requirements of that organization's Code of Ethics.
Tacoma Mausoleum & Mortuary has specialized pet-only facilities and welcomes inquiries from pet owners who have questions, either by phone or an in-person visit.
1. We own and operate our own private pet crematory on-site for our clients.
2. You are welcome to personally inspect our pet crematory.
3. Washington State requires no license to operate a pet crematory. For your peace of mind our staff voluntarily exercises identical and demanding standards required for human cremations with all pet cremation services.
4. Our CANA certified crematory staff personally performs the entire cremation procedure so we know which ashes are in the urn.
5. We are alone in providing a stainless steel identification disc for unparalleled tracking and accuracy. This one-of-a-kind disc will travel with the deceased pets' remains throughout the process and will be returned with the cremated remains.
6. Our pet cremation fees are among the lowest in the area and there are never any hidden costs.
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7. Our staff and services are available 24 hours a day. No answering machine or voice mails with Tacoma Pet Crematory.
8. For clients choosing individual cremation, you will receive all of the recoverable ashes returned to you in the urn of your choosing.
9. For clients choosing communal cremation, you will be comforted knowing the ashes won't be dumped in a field or sold to a farmer as fertilizer but scattered in a dignified manner on the waters of the Puget Sound.
10. Count on us to help you through a most difficult time - something families have been experiencing since 1909.
Our Code of Ethics
We as a member of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PET CEMETERIES & CREMATORIES, engaged in the business of owning, operating and developing pet cemeteries and other activities thereto, and mindful of duty which our industry bears to the public, and for the purpose of proclaiming our ideals for the benefit and protection of the public, our employees, ourselves and our Association, do hereby accept the following Code of Ethics of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PET CEMETERIES & CREMATORIES.
- We pledge to uphold the highest standard, always striving to raise the level of the industry.
- We will perform all services in a dignified manner showing the compassion, sympathetic understanding, and genuine concern required.
- We will respect the confidence of every family served.
- We will provide adequate cemetery facilities, maintain them to the best of our ability, keeping in mind our cemetery reflects all pet cemeteries.
- We will not pay any commission, remuneration or gratuity to other than such member's regular salesman, engaged for that purpose, in the sale of cemetery lots, crypt or niche spaces, interment rights, cremations, memorials or any other cemetery property or services (hereinafter referred to as "cemetery property and services").
- In the event we should have or make an independent contract with any agency to sell our cemetery property and services, such independent agency will be provided with copies of this Code of Ethics and require that such agencies, their officers, directors, employees and salesman in every respect must conform to this Code.
- We will not use any method of advertising, sales presentation or persuasion which conceals, evades, or misstates a material fact.
- We will comply with all federal, state, and local laws.
- We will maintain our own individual price policy.
- We will maintain adequate burial and financial records.