Borders Pet Crematorium

The BORDERS PET CREMATORIUM is ideally situated in Melrose in the central Borders, it can be reached within an hours drive of most of the Border towns.

Borders Pet Crematorium is a family run business which was started in 2018 but has been very much in the planning stage for a good number of years.

The business is run by Mark Riddell who has a wealth of business experience spanning the last 30 years. Mark has always been an animal lover and has grown up with many pets of various varieties.

Mark has had his own pets, mainly his dogs and while some had required extensive treatment at his local vets and were very well cared for, he felt at their time of passing more could have been done to provide his animals with a more dignified way to be cared for after their death and up until their cremation.

It is an unfortunate fact that most veterinary practices are contracted to a particular company who come out on a weekly round to collect deceased animals and the veterinary clinical waste.

This means your pet may or may not be placed in a body bag and put in a veterinary chest freezer and stored for up to a week, then collected in a van with other deceased animals from different vet practices and stacked up beside the other bodies and clinical waste that these vet practices generate, before being taken to a Crematorium or waste transfer station.

Mark and his family decided they would like to offer a service of respectfully looking after your beloved pet until it can be given a dignified individual cremation or burial within 24/48 hours of their passing.

Also Mark and his family want to give you the confidence and peace of mind that your loved ones have been cared for on their final journey by our understanding employees who have the same compassion, understanding and love for your pet that you have had all your beloved pet’s life.