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I had a small dog (21 pounds), so the hole didn't have to be very big. I dug it 4.5 feet deep. Incidentally, it was the deepest hole I ever dug in New England. I certainly hope, I don't have to redo it. Fortunately, it wasn't super cold or super hot. I was most fortunate, that the ground wasn't frozen at all, like it always is in January. Weird winter really. I really wanted to bury him on my property, I am glad I didn't bring him to the Vet to cremate his body. I am dogless now. Now when I drop food on the floor, I have to remember to pick it up. When I am getting ready for work, I don't have to try to find him to take him out. All these minor things in my routine are absent.

Bean was only 23 pounds but because of the coffin we had to dig it a certain way. Of course, I live in Maryland, so we have all these rules about how deep it had to be. We actually had a plot for him in a doggie part of a people cemetery but when he died I just couldn’t part with him. It was my intention to dig him up and put him in his permanent grave when and if we moved or when I died. I have since changed my mind and he is where he is forever. Don’t know what I was thinking. He was almost 15 at the time so it was a tough thing.