There is good news. Fluffy won't be spending eternity in an unmarked grave.
Wealthy pet lovers are memorializing their beloved companions in style, spending big bucks on high-end silk-lined caskets with foam mattresses, chiseled-edged stone markers, cemetery plots, private mausoleums and urns topped with hand-carved figurines of the pet's image.
"For a lot of people, their pets are part of their family," said Pat Norris, who runs the Garden of Our Little Friends pet cemetery inside Cadillac Memorial Gardens East in Clinton Township. "Money is not the object. It's about unconditional love."
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We always bury our pets in our yard, with a small stone or other unobtrusive marker, but I never visit their graves. I dislike any memorial that reminds me of a loved one's death; I just want to remember them while they were alive. I want to think of my pet rabbit when she was hopping around my living room or snuggled in my lap, not when she's a decaying shell lying under a few feet of ground. But that's just me - different people deal with loss in different ways.
My dad, on the other hand, had one of our cats cremated. Her ashes now sit in an urn behind the microwave in his office - her favorite hideout.
What about you? How do you memorialize your dead pets?
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