Vet services in your home, and now an opportunity to say goodbye to pets at crematorium set up in old warehouse

ANIMAL lovers will be able to say a final goodbye to their pets with the launch of a new pet crematorium in Derbyshire.

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John and Catherine Rosie, owners of VetCare, opened the facility in Belper last Tuesday.

Lifelong animal lovers John and Catherine spent months renovating an old warehouse at Goods Wharf next to the River Derwent to be kitted out with everything that pet owners could want to ease their sorrow when their animals die.

The couple believe their venture could be unique in the UK.

Not only does it offer owners the opportunity to visit the crematorium and hold a funeral service there, it is also owned and run by an independent family vet practice, which operates a full suite of veterinary services.

VetCare@Home employs 18 professionals who offer an at-home service, avoiding the need to attend a practice.

With its mobile surgical ambulance, the practice offers vaccinations, microchipping, worming and at-home operations, and when pets are at the end of their life, at home euthanasia.