A company called Summum offers to turn your dog, or any other pet, into a mummy.

They'll even do horses.

The company, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, offers mummification services for people too. In fact, they've already mummified several people, and have another 1,457 who've paid in advance.

Summum has also done many cats, dogs and birds at up to $25,000 each that will end up beside their owners who also wish to be mummified.

Summum is headed up by a guy named Corky Ra, whose last name refers to the ancient Egyptian sun god. He claims his company is the only one offering mummification services.

The mummification process involves placing the body in a vat of preserving liquid. Once removed from the vat, it is cleaned and covered in soft lanolin cream. It's then wrapped in 27 layers of gauze. The body is then encased in resin, and then painted over and sealed in with a plastic paint. It's then plastered over, and then finally, covered in gold leaf paint or any other color. Lastly, the mummy is placed inside a quarter inch bronze mummiform.

Owners wishing to mummify their pet are allowed to choose a favoried remembered position.

So why mummify your pet? Corky Ra believes the benefits are the same as those enjoyed by the ancient Egyptians, eternal life. Ra believes that modern medicine will one day allow scientists to clone dogs, cats, and people too. (Well, it's already happened with cats).

According to Ra...

"Perhaps in 40 or 50 years or less, people who are mummified now will be cloned as a new-born baby, genetically engineered for the future as a super human and when they reach a certain age they had liked and requested in their will, perhaps 25, they will have all their memory up to that point restored.... and start all over again."

If you'd like to have your dog start all over again, visit Summum's website.