Ohio Valley Pet Center

04/11/2026

Whether furry, feathery, or scarey, give your pets some special snuggles and treats today! 💗🐕🐈🐁🐇🦔🦦🐓🦎🐢🐠

03/13/2026

Thank you to all of our K9 veterans!

03/10/2026

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team. Reba is a spunky, red headed chihuahua who has become our grief councilor here at our Wheeling office. Her duties include greeting you at the door with a tail wag and a bark, taking up all of your personal space while demanding pets, and staring at you lovingly until you pay attention to her.

We know losing a pet is hard. We hope Reba's presence during such a difficult time will bring some comfort to our beloved customers.

02/20/2026

Happy "Love your pet" Day!

02/16/2026

K9 Officer Sheik
She will be greatly missed 😢

02/06/2026

Ohio Valley Pet Crematory has been dedicated to delivering empathetic services to families across the Ohio Valley for 25 years, recognizing the pain of pet loss and taking pride in providing dignified care to allow families to focus on healing.

06/16/2025

Please consider making a contribution to help local flood victims.

Support Wheeling, WV flood victims through United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley - Flood Relief fundraiser. Donate to provide direct assistance to those in need. Together, we can make a difference. 🌊🤝

03/14/2025

11/13/2023

Just because he is cute...

04/07/2023

“Room 8” ( 1947–1968 )
Room 8 was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-1960s.
News cameras would arrive at the school at the beginning of the year waiting for the cat's return; he became famous and would receive up to 100 letters a day addressed to him at the school. Eventually, he was featured in a documentary called Big Cat, Little Cat and a children's book, A Cat Called Room 8. Look magazine ran a three-page Room 8 feature by photographer Richard Hewett in November 1962, titled "Room 8: The School Cat". Leo Kottke wrote an instrumental called "Room 8" that was included in his 1971 album, Mudlark.
As he got older, Room 8 was injured in a cat fight and suffered from feline pneumonia, so a family near the school volunteered to take him in. The school's janitor would find him at the end of the school day and carry him across the street.
His obituary in the Los Angeles Times rivaled that of major political figures, running three columns with a photograph. The cat was so famous that his obituary ran in papers as far away as Hartford, Connecticut. The students raised the funds for his gravestone. He is buried at the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park in Calabasas, California.