A pet cemetery is a cemetery for . Although the veneration and burial of beloved pets has been practiced since ancient times, burial grounds reserved specifically for animals were not common until the late 19th century.
History
Many human cultures
burial animal remains. For example, the
Mummy and buried
, which they considered
deity; 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
Common Era.
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.
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The Hiran Minar near Lahore, Pakistan is a minaret that was built in approximately 1606 CE by the Mughal empire 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.
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 zoology necropolis in the world.[ A tour of Parisian pet cemetery Cimetière des Chiens ]
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.
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 "
Natural 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
See also
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