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It was challenged by three women who remained anonymous and went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which upheld the part of the state law that required clinics to bury or cremate remains.

Those who opt to bury or cremate on their own pay a funeral home.

"I've paid £130 to cremate someone else's cat," she said.

Not wanting to burden her neighbour with Ted's body until the family returned from holiday, Ms Knight organised for Heavenly Pets Crematorium to collect the body and cremate it.

“I’m never going to get a dime from them, so, I don’t know, it’s a little frustrating,” Crystina Page, who hired the funeral home to cremate her son’s remains in 2019, told the Associated Press.