Why are people freeze-drying their pets?
Chuck Rupert works with critters. That’s what he calls them at his shop, Second Life Freeze Dry, in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. He works, specifically, withcritters—his subject could be your dog, cat, ferret, rodent, turtle, even your bearded dragon. If you loved it, and it’s small enough to fit in an industrial freeze dryer, Rupert will preserve it for you.
Like all of the critters Rupert handles, Chance arrived frozen. The Bowsers froze him in their chest freezer, then drove him to the shop. Other clients overnight their pets, packed in coolers of dry ice. To get their critters to Rupert, foreign pet owners wrestle with customs paperwork and shipping insurance. It’s not uncommon for a Canadian to drive across the border just to ship Rupert an animal. Crossing the border with a dead dog in your trunk is easy; sending it by mail, apparently, is not.
On the wall of Rupert’s office are cards sent by his clients. Many contain handwritten notes of gratitude and some contain pictures of their dead pets. “When most people call me,” he explains, “they’re in a major grief-stricken situation. I tell them that the key is to get them frozen ASAP. Once you’ve done that, there’s no rush. Then we can wait months to decide. I don’t want to be the dog-cat ambulance chaser.
And hearts, unsurprisingly, are a reoccurring theme at Second Life. “This guy,” Rupert says, showing me the file of a single man in his 30s, the owner of a cat named Iggy. “He had questions almost every day, even when the cat was in the dryer.” Animals can be in the dryer for weeks or even months, depending on their size and density. “He’d always want me to talk to the cat. Tell the cat this, tell the cat that. He wanted Iggy’s heart dried and painted this certain shade of blue. So I did it.
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