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Dan Gersten, who started Animal Keepsake Memorials and invented the Fur-Ever-
Friends™ Keepsake Memorial Pet Urn, is an animal lover in the truest sense of the term.
(However, if pressed, he’ll admit to a special allegiance to the canine variety.)

“I grew up in a place that didn’t allow dogs or cats. Sure, we had a couple of parakeets,
but I didn’t realize how incomplete my life was until I got my first dog — a wonderful,
inspirational cocker spaniel named Frisco,” shares Gersten.

Frisco had a long and happy life, and his ultimate passing in 1992 was the ‘inspiration'

for the Fur-Ever-Friends Keepsake Memorial Pet Urn and the development of its patented multi-compartment
design.

“Frisco was put down in ’92 and, as often is the case, was cremated, and they gave me a tin containing his
cremains. One day my daughter approached me and asked ‘What are you going to do with Frisco’s ashes?’
and my immediate response was ‘When Mouser (my cat) dies and is cremated, I’ll put his ashes in with
Frisco’s and, in that way, they’ll be back together again.’ That got me thinking — a lot of other pet owners
must have multiple pets during their lifetimes, and probably have the cremated remains of more than one
pet in their home. I thought it would be wonderful to design a symbolic keepsake to store and cherish some
of each individual deceased pets’ ashes together, in one special place,” says Gersten.

Dan currently lives in the Boston area and shares his home and life with Buzz, an English Springer Spaniel
and Curtis, a Golden mix pawthor and "canine Dear Abby"!

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