| Remembering our animal friends with Running-Free pet memorials
Losing a much-loved, family pet is always filled with sadness, but now, thanks to Running-Free, a new company based in Four Marks, Hampshire, there’s a beautiful, natural way to create a lasting memory of them. Run by Suzanne Sancisi-Frey, Running-Free uses exquisite rock forms, boulders and simple stones to create pet memorials that blend perfectly into a garden setting.
The company started when Suzy lost her who started RunningFree when her much loved own Siamese cat – called ‘Mu’ - died, and she couldn’t find anything suitable for a garden memorial. As she comments… “I didn’t want a miniaturised human headstone, or anything too obvious or morbid for the garden, just a memorial that would blend into the garden naturally and remind me of my cat”.
Having searched extensively but found nothing, Suzanne called on the expertise of her husband’s family business (stone masons with over 70 years experience) to help create a unique range of boulders and obelisks. Running-Free has now devised a range of limestone, sandstone and marble boulders and obelisks, and their pet memorials have been really well received by customers all over England.
The concept of animal memorials is not new, and it is widely recognised that a memorial can help overcome that sense of loss when a much loved pet dies, as one Running Free customer testifies about her cat Tom’s rainbow cobble memorial:
“It looks lovely under the apple tree where he is buried…..it’s a nice reminder that he’s there…….(the memorial) … it makes his loss a little easier. Thank you”
Suzanne says “Attention to detail is extremely important when producing pet memorials that, after all, should reflect the special relationship that people share with their pets”. Each stone or boulder is hand chosen and an on-line proofing system ensures that customers ultimately receive the unique pet memorial that they are hoping for and expect.
Suzanne and all at Running-Free are committed to providing a professional and sympathetic service, and as the area officer for the Independent Weimaraner Rescue and Re-homing Service (I.W.R.R.S.) charity in Hampshire, Suzanne intends to pledge / donates a percentage of her profits to Weimaraner Rescue, as well as her other favourite charity; The Animal Health Trust (A.H.T.) who conduct essential veterinary research into animal disease. |
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