The diamond that means my dear pets are with me forever

Wherever animal lover Sue Rogers goes, her two dogs and a cat follows her.

Which is no mean feat considering they have all been dead for several years.

Miss Rogers, 44, has had the ashes of her three pets transformed into a £3,200 diamond ring.

The remains of Lucky, an Old English sheepdog, a golden retriever cross called Sam, and Patch the tom cat used to sit on the mantelpiece at her home in Bideford, North Devon.

LifeGem UK - a company which makes diamonds from the remains of humans and pets - enabled her to create the ring.

Scientists in the U.S. took a small amount of carbon from each set of ashes and heated it to 3,000C in a crucible.

Other chemicals were added to encourage the carbon atoms to attract each other, producing a rough diamond within two weeks. This was cut, polished and certified before being sent back to England where it was set in a gold band.

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