Pet cemetery

History

Many human cultures buried animal remains. For example, the Ancient Egyptians mummified and buried cats, which they considered deities; one of the oldest known pet cemeteries, the Berenice pet cemetery, mainly used for cat burials, was found during the excavation of the Berenice Troglodytica seaport in 2011 and was used between the 1st and 2nd century CE. Archaeologists have found that dogs were buried alongside humans in Siberia as many as 8,000 years ago. The Ashkelon dog cemetery, the largest known dog cemetery in the ancient world, was discovered at the Ashkelon National Park in Ashkelon, Israel.

The Hiran Minar near Lahore, Pakistan is a minaret that was built in approximately 1606 CE by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in honor of his beloved pet antelope Mansraj.

London's Hyde Park was the site of an informal pet cemetery between 1881 and 1903, in the gatekeeper's garden. From the first burial of "Cherry" until its official closure in 1903, it received 300 burials with miniature headstones, with a final special burial of the Royal Marines mascot dog "Prince" in 1967.

Cimetière des Chiens in Asnières-sur-Seine in Paris, dating from 1899, is an elaborate, sculpted pet cemetery believed to be one of the first public zoological necropolis in the world.

America's largest and oldest pet cemetery is the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. It dates from 1896, when a veterinarian working out of Manhattan offered to let a grieving pet owner bury her dog at his hillside apple orchard. Today, it is the final resting place to around 80,000 animals including famous ones such as Mariah Carey's cat Clarence and Ming the tiger. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Some other famous American pet cemeteries include Aspin Hill Memorial Park in Silver Spring, Maryland, believed to be the second-oldest in America, as well as the Pet Memorial Cemetery in Calabasas, California, where Hopalong Cassidy's horse, Topper, Steven Spielberg's Jack Russell Terrier, and Rudolph Valentino's dog, Kabar, are buried.

Burial with humans

At some cemeteries, such as Aspin Hill Memorial Park, human and animal remains may be interred alongside each other. In January 2010, West Lindsey District Council gave permission for a site in the village of Stainton by Langworth to inter animal remains alongside human remains as part of a "green burial" site, making it the first place in England where pets could be buried alongside their owners. In 2011, New York State formally adopted guidelines to allow human burials in pet cemeteries as long as the cemetery doesn't advertise it or charge a burial fee.

Gallery

Asia

File:Hiran Minar- monument to Mansraj.jpg|Hiran Minar near Lahore, Pakistan File:Meher Babas Animal Tombs.jpg|Meher Baba's animal tombs, Upper Meherabad

Europe

File:Wien - Tierfriedhof (2).JPG|Pet cemetery in Vienna, Austria File:Pet cemetery, Helsinki, Finland 4.jpg|Pet cemetery in Helsinki, Finland File:Tierheim-Berlin-Friedhof-01.jpg|Pet cemetery in Berlin, Germany File:Karoliniškės Pet Cemetery, 2015 13.JPG|Pet cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania File:Pet Cemetery (Portugal, 1994).jpg|Pet cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal File:Kaknas 2007 3.jpg|Pet cemetery in Stockholm, Sweden

North America

File:Pet Cemetery -San Francisco-3.jpg|Pet cemetery in the Presidio of San Francisco, California File:Dog funeral, 10-7-21 LOC npcc.05120.jpg|Dog funeral at Aspin Hill Memorial Park (1921) in Silver Spring, Maryland File:Pet Cemetery -- Sante Fe, Texas.jpg|Pet cemetery in Santa Fe, Texas File:Hale's Half Acre Pet Cemetery -- Houston.jpg|Hale's Half Acre Pet Cemetery in Houston, Texas

Oceania

File:Corrigin Dog Cemetery, 2018 (01).jpg|Corrigin Dog Cemetery in Corrigin, Western Australia

References

References

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