Caskets for Pets: A Great Business Idea

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Our pets are very close to our hearts and their deaths can be extremely painful.

The pet owners who want to make the burials of their beloved pets memorable could use a casket. Use your creativity and build the caskets needed for burying those devoted pets. This could be of great help to the pet lovers and you can earn up to $100 per casket in average. You should offer caskets in many different sizes for pets of all kinds.


Pets become a part of the family and people usually want those lost loved ones to be resting close to them usually in their backyard. For this reason you could start up your own innovative business of building caskets. It is a good idea to start with making caskets for smaller pets like a gold fish to large dogs. In this way, you will be able to meet the needs of owners with various types of pets. Once you have established yourself as a good casket designer then you can aim for larger pets.

Children are especially close to the pets and it's hard for them to face their death. Parents usually use this depressing situation to introduce to children the concept of death and the processes of funerals following it. With the use of a proper casket explaining the concept would be a lot easier and children will understand the process better.

What material you want the caskets to be made up of is up to you. You can choose to sell from simple wooden caskets to heavy metal ones. If you are good with creating the caskets you can make a large profit. And if you a versatile craftsman, you can make use of many different materials available to make a wide variety of caskets for a profitable business.

You should have ready-made caskets available to be able to deliver when ordered by needy customers. If not at least keep the basic shape of the different size caskets prepared so that you can have it ready in no time when needed. If asked for quick shipping you can charge more or you can include the shipping charges to the overall price of the caskets and send them to the customers using options of urgent shipping.

With your innovative ideas you can make use of the unwanted containers at home or buy them at a low price in stores and rebuild them into pretty caskets for the lost pet. It is not appropriate for instance to make expensive caskets for a tiny little pet like a gold fish. Instead try to make a beautifully designed cardboard casket adorned with little bit of laces that would not cost much because the pet itself wasn't too expensive.

If you want to start small you might want to try selling the caskets in the pet stores near your house. You can make some caskets and put on display at the stores as samples to check their demand in the market. The sample caskets should be wrapped in durable packages to save them from damages. Make and distribute pamphlets in the area for the instructions to place an order with information of all your work illustrated by pictures. Prepare a price list for various models, sizes and materials of caskets that you will supply for the stores to keep. You can also create your own website to sell the caskets online.

A decent price for these would be an average of $100 per casket. Nevertheless the output depends on your demand. Your choice of materials used to construct each casket will decide its worth. Although there has to be many people ready to spend a lot of money to bury their long-loved pet. But a good idea is to make your work known to people using the internet and other advertising options. Having your own website will help you expand your business as you are likely to find customers with various preferences and ability. If you can offer a wide range of caskets for all those people with various demands and choices you are sure to do a profitable business in this market. Your unique ideas will help you create a place for yourself.

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