Who Owns My Pet Crematory?
The "local" pet crematory you found may be one brand of a national, private-equity-backed company. Type the provider's name below and we'll check it against a sourced index of brands tied to a corporate parent — most often Gateway Services Inc., which runs about 20 local-sounding brands under one Ontario parent. We never sell you anything, and we never assume an unlisted name is independent.
Questions to ask any provider — chain or independent
- What is the exact legal business name of the company that will perform the cremation, and who owns it?
- Is this a private (individual) cremation where my pet is the only animal in the chamber — and will you put that in writing?
- What single numbered identifier (tag or RFID) stays with my pet from intake to return, and can I see the paperwork linking the returned ashes to it?
- Can I get an itemized written price list before I commit, and is a witnessed cremation available?
- Is this specific location accredited (IAOPCC)? Accreditation is per location — a parent’s credential elsewhere does not transfer.
- If something goes wrong, where is the government record I can check — the state attorney general, the regulator, the court — not just online reviews?
Sourced consumer-brand -> corporate-parent index for North American pet aftercare. Built ONLY from primary records (each parent's own brand list / going-private filing). NOT a complete registry: a name that is absent may still belong to a chain whose ownership is not public, and a name that is present is sourced. Ownership changes over time — confirm with the provider. Matching is deliberately PRECISE (distinctive brand names only) to avoid wrongly tagging an independent.
The full sourced ownership map and the fair read on whether consolidation matters: Who Owns Your Local Pet Crematory. To see whether your state regulates pet cremation at all, see the 50-state law map.
How this works
This tool matches the name you enter against a hand-built index drawn only from primary records — each parent company's own brand list and going-private filings. We kept the matching deliberately precise: it only flags distinctive brand names, so an independent crematory is never wrongly tagged as chain-owned. A no-match result is not a clean bill of independence — it just means the name is not in our sourced index, and you should verify it yourself.
For the full sourced ownership map, the government record (including the FTC's 2025 noncompete order against Gateway — a labor matter, not a pet-handling finding), and our fair read on whether consolidation actually helps or harms grieving owners, read the investigation: Who Owns Your Local Pet Crematory — And Does It Matter?