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My cat needed to be euthanised last month, and I just received her ashes. They came with a round black sticker. What’s the purpose of this sticker?
They mentioned my chosen urn was suitable for sprinkling cremains (I don’t plan to do that) – maybe it’s related to that?
Thanks.
That's blue
Why are not more people talking about this????
Not tov start another debate about the color of something online, but that looks very much like an inventory sticker. The blue ones are much lighter blue than that. That is a black sticker, and the glare bouncing off of it makes it look lighter
You say this is black?
Color theory strikes again. It's blue in the photo but the sticker is probably black irl to your eyes.
bro is pretending he doesn't know how reflections work
It’s definitely black. It has a bit of sheen and looks dark blue in the photo because of that.
Sorry for your loss. I went through this myself today. I'm devastated.
To me it looks like a generic sticker. Does the backing of the sticker look like it was cut off of a strip of stickers? Or maybe a sheet
https://www.amazon.ca/Round-Color-Coding-Sticker-Labels/dp/B07V67XHMB
I could see it as being a part of some internal identification system they use. To keep track of pets, urns, or what is being worked on a particular day. Maybe which urns have been reserved and which are free to use.
What I think may have happened
Someone cut the stickers and left it on top of whatever they were supposed to identify, for someone else to use later
It was never used or needed, and fell in with the stuff that was sent to you
Best way to confirm would be to ask, I'm sure they wouldn't mind confirming!
Sorry for your loss
You could be right. That would make sense.
Thank you!
If you stick it to something and then peel it off, does it leave a symbol? They have tamper detection stickers that leave a design when peeled off but they may not have used it on yours as it appears to be a fabric.
It does not. It’s paper, with a bit of a sheen.
I think the suggestions it’s an inventory sticker that was accidentally included make the most sense.
Try to shine strong flaslight trough it, if you'll see traces of wire it's a RFID/NFC sticker. Those are used for identification.
that looks like a NFC sticker I wonder if they used it for identification. I use stickers like these all the time to program devices around my home.
Is there a way I can tell? I’m pretty techy, but not familiar with that technology. It looks like a regular black sticker to me, and feels like it has a smooth finish. I tried looking that up and get nothing but sites trying to sell me nfc stickers.
NFC sticker would have a coil of wire as the antenna around a little bump in the middle which is the chip. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=nfc+sticker
It doesn’t.
Your phone should be able to detect it.
it doesn’t .
Then it's not NFC, you would be able to hold it to the light and see a coil inside
try using the app nfc tools
I think you put it on the bottom of the urn and write your pet's name on it. I have four tiny urns on my bookcase now and labeling them has proved important.
Sorry for your loss.
Thank you. I’m sorry for your loss, too.
Damn I read "my cat needed to be enthusiased and I just received her ashes" and though WTF did you do to make her so excited?
side note: enthusiased is not an english word but in greek (ενθουσιασμενος) it makes sense and it translates to "excited"
It would be “enthused” in English
huh, TIL, thanks
What size is the sticker? All I can think is it would be used as a way to help seal the urn/container? If you got the urn from a veterinarian you could reach out to them and ask, maybe it was included accidentally?
The container had its own seal. The sticker is about an inch in diameter.
e: the seal on the container wasn’t like the sticker. It was rectangular.
e2: since my package was meant for sprinkling, I’m wondering if I’m supposed to mark the spot with this sticker? Like is that a thing one does?
Please just call and ask!
I’ll probably do that, thanks!
Could it be for the bottom of the urn to write something with marker or pen?
My condolences
I doubt this is relevant but my mind goes to the book Treasure Island
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spot_(Treasure_Island)
The Black Spot is a literary device invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel Treasure Island (serialized 1881–82, published as a book in 1883).