About Us

Compass Pet Cremations & Services cater for people who wish an individual after care service.
Escott and Kim Starling started offering a pet cremation service in 1987. It was inevitable that they would extend their services to accommodate the individual requirements of their clients.

Escott and Kim have both been involved with animals all their lives. Kim trained to be a pet groomer when she was in high school for 6 years and spent all her free time learning pet grooming.  Kim’s main reason was she owned a beautiful little Toy Poodle which introduced her to the dog show world.  Trixy was her birthday present from her mother before High School.

Later on Kim with into the corporate world and realised there was something missing in accountancy- animals, so Escott who was in small business and has been associated with the funeral industry in England suggested to Kim that they could help people with animals in a Pet Crematorium business so they started the business in 1987.  Kim opened Petpak a grooming salon part-time and also helped her long term clients when it was their pets time to go.  There was a great need for their Compass Pet Crematorium business so they decided to concentrate on their Crematorium business.

They married in the Northern beaches and together opened the first pet cremations service open to clients by appointment in Sydney.  Ten years after they started Compass Pet Cremations & services and had 3 children and one on the way.  Their services has been received so well that they decided on a “Tree Change” and moved to their country property where it took two years to organise and have their Boutique Pet Cemetery & Crematorium Complex approved and changed their business name to “Compass Pet Heritage Cemetery & Crematorium”.  They have strong concepts on where they wish to take the business.  A pet crematorium in the middle of an idyllic pet cemetery, a viewing chapel, a condolence gift shop and a meditation chapel.  All this has never been achieved before on this depth.  They service all of the Northern Beaches where they have a close connection and their children still live.  Their children are the second generation in the business and as it is privately owned and operated family business they are committed to helping others with their individual requirements.

Service Areas are Sydney, Southern Highlands, Goulburn, ACT and South Coast