Pet Cremation and Burial Services

Our pets provide companionship, emotional support, and unconditional love during the time they are with us. We consider them part of our family. So when that special relationship comes to an end it is only natural to grieve. We understand how difficult it is to say goodbye and want to help you through the grieving process by offering our cremation and burial services as a way to memorialize and honor the life of your beloved pet.


Whether you need our services immediately or are preparing for the future, we are dedicated to being here to meet your individual needs and that of your family's companion.

Private Cremations

Ashes are returned to your family

For families who wish to keep the remains of their beloved pet. Your pet will be cremated individually, carefully packaged and returned to you in our standard urn.

Private Cremation Pricing

Group Cremations

Ashes are not returned to your family

For families who do not wish to keep the remains of their pet. Your pet is cremated in a dignified way with no ashes returned. This service cremates multiple pets in a Communal cremation process and ashes are respectful disposed of by HAHS.

Group Cremation Pricing

Burials

We offer burial services at our pet cemetery, Friendship Grove for families who wish to memorialize their pet in a more traditional way. A temporary grave marker is included with burial services, and will identify your pets final resting place.

Burial Pricing

About Friendship Grove

Friendship Grove is believed to be one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the United States. Located on Bald Hill, just outside the city limits of Hornell, NY, deceased pets from all over the county are laid to rest.


The cemetery was originally owned by Frank L. Myers who purchased the property in the year 1907 for the sole purpose of burying his departed canines. The first pet he buried there is marked with a gray granite tombstone with the markings "Trix 1892-1907". Mr. Myers eventually extended the privilege of pet burial in his cemetery to his friends. The last dog owned by Mr. Myers passed of grief, 24 hours after he passed on.


Following Mr. Myers death in 1934, the property was turned over to The Hornell Area Humane Society. In 1935 Mary Agnes Leahy and James Houlihan erected and dedicate the now familiar life-sized statue of an American Indian on the cemetery grounds in honor of Mr. Myers.


Here in the shade of towering trees and beneath an array of tombstones lies the remains of between 800 and 900 animals from all over the United States. Although the cemetery was originally started with the idea of burying only dogs, there are cats, canaries, monkeys, a horse and a lion buried in Friendship Grove. Among the many pets buried in the cemetery lie "Baron Von Schnaps", a German police dog who was the mascot aboard the U. S. S. Lexington prior to it's sinking; also "Mr. Bum", mascot of the U. S. S. Texas; "Swaller", mascot of the fire department who died in 1908 while responding to an alarm; "Trixie", another famous firedog noted for leaping 65 feet from a ladder and landing in a net. He died in 1909.

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