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Toll Free: 800-607-1582 New York: 212-899-5606 New Jersey 201-580-3828 Westchester: 914-603-1500
  • Toll Free: 800-607-1582
  • New York: 212-899-5606
  • New Jersey 201-580-3828
  • Westchester: 914-603-1500

Pet Funeral & Aquamation Service of NYC

Aquamation is a gentle pet cremation process that uses water instead of fire to return your loving pet back to mother nature.


This website is run by an experienced licensed funeral director. The care and attention provided to the families he serves has been exceptional. Taking his deep experience together with using a high level of professionalism and attention to detail, while still maintaining affordable levels of service for the communities he serves, is his foundation.

Did you know of a more dignified and environmentally friendly aftercare alternative to pet burial or cremation? Today, several veterinarians offer pet owners aquamation services, which is one of the best ways of handling your pet’s remains.

What Is Aquamation

Also called alkaline hydrolysis, aquamation is a water-based, environmentally friendly alternative to pet burial or conventional cremation. In this process, the pet’s body is placed into a container filled with an alkali bath consisting of salts that break down a buried body.

The container is then placed inside a stainless steel machine. The combination of alkalinity, warm temperature, and gentle airflow is used to speed up the natural process of tissue breakdown. This process reduces the organic material to its basic form, leaving a sterilized water solution and mineral bone.

Anyone who has ever considered becoming a pet owner understands that the hardest part of having a loving pet is the eventuality of losing that pet. It is an inevitable part of life, but it is never something easy to accept.

What Happens During the Aquamation Process?

Hydrolysis works in this way; Aquamation is identified as a combination of gentle water flow, temperature, and alkalinity that are used to accelerate the breakdown of organic materials. What can take 3 months to 5 years in nature, Aquamation takes 20 hours to complete. The process uses a solution of 95% water and 5% alkali and it’s actually the water molecules that break the bonds. To give you an example of how clean this process is, the 5% alkali used in this process are the same alkalis used in common cosmetic products, like body washes and shaving creams, and even in food preparation. At the end of the process, all alkali has been completely consumed and neutralized, and no longer remains in the water solution. At the end of the Hydrolysis process, the only remains left are the bone, with two significant improvements over cremation – the bones from aquamation are whiter and cleaner as we are able to return, on average, 20%-30% more remains because the process doesn’t involve the high heat of flame cremation so there’s no particulate loss of your pet discharged through a chimney along with smoke! In addition, all euthanasia chemicals are neutralized and broken down completely in this process. All pathogens are destroyed, making the material completely pathogen and disease free, completely sterile and 100% safe to handle.

Our Services

  • Call Us to Make Arrangements

    Speak with us directly. Our simple paperwork can be filled out without ever leaving the comfort of your home. Pet pick-up service available.

  • Aquamation Options

    Our bio-friendly aquamation options can be personalized to celebrate your pet! We offer individual aqua-cremation as well as group aqua-cremation.

  • Memorialize Your Pet

    Pets are a great part of our lives, and their love and loyalty is so pure.

What your neighbors say…

  • Mary was very comforting. Pet Funeral & Cremation Service of NYC in our time of need was their for us with our little boy Simba. We also appreciate the time that she took to share and educate us with the whole process of aquamation cremation. My wife and I are grateful, thank you Mary.

    Brie Perez
  • Would definitely recommend to anyone, very kind and delicate with the process..

    Tom Scott
  • My wife and I were so pleased with them. They were very caring and professional.

    George Stanley
  • Mary was very understanding and kind. He answered all my questions about the process with great compassion. Excellent service, highly recommended!

    Aaron Taylor
  • It is hard to lose a beloved pet, but when the company shows so much empathy and care for such sad circumstance it definitely leaves you at ease. The staff is incredibly kind and accommodating. Thank you!.

    Mia R.

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