Freeze Dried Dogs?

Alan Alda's autobiography was titled never Have Your Dog Stuffed. You can buy a copy here, if you like. Or you can ignore his advice and have your dearly departed dog freeze dried.

I didn't make that up.

A website called Perpetual Pet offers "new techniques" that make sure that you "never have to let go." I'll let them explain the process for you:

We at Perpetual Pet know that the loss of a dearly loved pet is a very difficult experience. Through the use of new techniques in freeze dry technology, we can offer a "Loving and Lasting" alternative to burial cremation or traditional taxidermy. Freeze-dry pet preservation creates a lasting memorial and more importantly, preserves your pet in a natural state thereafter, without any alteration in appearance. This allows pet owners to see, touch and hold their pets, and in a sense, "never have to let go." Best of all, freeze-dry pet preservation results in the preservation of your pet's actual, physical body. This is in sharp contrast to the conventional method of taxidermy, in which only the outer hide of the animal typically remains, attached to a plastic form or other type of artificial mounting.

Neat.

Not my cup of tea, actually, but if this sounds nice to you, pricing is apparently done by weight. Hefty dogs cost more to freeze, I guess. Christmas is coming - maybe this is a great gift for the strangest person on your list. 

The real question is: do they do hamsters?