I'm sorry. That is hard. A few of our other childhood pets were buried in the yard. My dad had to dig up their graves and move the bones when the state messed up our yard during freeway construction.

Moving, and the fact that he was just too big to bury, are why we chose to cremate. My last dog was cremated too because we knew we'd be moving in the military. Although we're settled now, there is nowhere to bury a large dog (without uprooting half the yard) and this way they will both go with us if we move.