I found that I didn’t want to bury Bailey’s ashes for that entire summer. I kept them by my favorite chair near his picture and the clay paw imprint the vet school made for us. Finally before the ground froze, I buried the ashes under the pine tree by our other 2 doberman’s ashes. I planted a special tree for the first one who died at 14.
I have a 17 year old cat named Bailey whose sister died of cancer years ago. I have her ashes in my office next to her clay paw imprint - I told my family to bury the ashes with me when I go. I adopted after she died and was a 2 animal house until 2007 when I adopted 2 dogs, Maggie and Reagan (guess who they are named after!) The pain really is less when there are other animals. At least for me.