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| Some people taking love for pets to the grave - Tampa Bay Online Posted: 06 Feb 2011 08:53 PM PST A pet and her master sit side-by-side at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. Published: February 7, 2011 HARTSDALE, N.Y. - Rhona Levy has her burial planned out. She'll be cremated, her ashes will be divided into two bright red urns and she'll be taken to the cemetery. Then, half of her will go into a plot with Snow, Putchke and Pumpkin, and the other half will go in nearby with Shaina and Twinkie. The New Yorker is among what appears to be a growing number of Americans who want to share their final resting place with their best friends — even if those friends were cats or dogs or iguanas — and are getting buried or reserving plots at pet cemeteries. "I've elected not to be married — it just didn't happen, I was engaged a few times — and I didn't have children," the 61-year-old Levy said. "And these little furry kids, they just became my first and foremost love. So I wanted to be close after I died." The International Association of Pet Cemeteries and Crematories, with 200 members, estimates that a quarter of the nation's pet cemeteries take in deceased humans, and the demand is growing. "We hear about it all the time in our membership, people asking for it," said Donna Bethune, the group's executive secretary. Pet owners "oftentimes maybe don't have extended family and their pet pretty much was their family, like their child to them. And there's not a family plot where everyone's going to be." At the 115-year-old Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, which claims to be America's first pet cemetery, president and director Edward Martin Jr. estimates the remains of 700 people have joined the 75,000 or so buried animals. Martin said human remains have been added to animal graves at Hartsdale, 20 miles north of Manhattan, since a woman had her ashes sprinkled over her dog's grave in 1925. Burying human remains goes back to at least 1950, and the scattering of ashes is no longer permitted. He said he thinks the increasing number of humans — 10 or 12 in each of the past few years, compared with three to five before — may be related to "more people getting used to the idea of cremation." Hartsdale and most of the other pet cemeteries contacted said they require humans to be cremated before joining their deceased pets. At least one famous pet cemetery won't let humans in. David Stiller, president of the board of directors for the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park, where Charlie Chaplin's cat and Humphrey Bogart's dog are buried, said, "We don't think we're a human cemetery and we don't want to get into that." He said he wouldn't be surprised, however, if there was some "unauthorized scattering" of owners' ashes over pets' graves. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Cold Weather Care for Your Pets - Associated Content Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:36 PM PST This week much of the United States experienced a winter storm that news crews were calling a "Monster Storm". It turned out that Mother Nature was a bit nicer to us than the weather casters had first  1. Keep your cat inside. Outdoors, felines can freeze, become lost or be stolen, injured or killed. 2. During the winter, outdoor cats sometimes sleep under the hoods of cars. When the motor is started, the cat can be injured or killed by the fan belt. 3. Never let your dog off the leash on snow or ice, especially during a snowstorm, dogs can lose their scent and easily become lost. 4. Thoroughly wipe off your dog's legs and stomach when he comes in out of the sleet, snow or ice. 5. Never shave your dog down to the skin in winter, as a longer coat will provide more warmth. 6. Never leave your dog or cat alone in a car during cold weather. 7. Puppies do not tolerate the cold as well as adult dogs, and may be difficult to housebreak during the winter. 8. Does your dog spend a lot of time engaged in outdoor activities? Increase his supply of food, particularly protein, to keep him, and his fur, in tip-top shape. 9. Like coolant, antifreeze is a lethal poison for dogs and cats. Be sure to thoroughly clean up any spills from your vehicle, and consider using products that contain propylene glycol rather than ethylene glycol. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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