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Mummify Your Pet?

May 30, 2006—You might call it taxidermy with a twist. For about the same price as a new sports car, a Salt Lake City, Utah- based firm will make a mummy of your departed pet.

Watch as two pooches are prepped for their journey to the afterlife, and meet the dog lovers who chose this unusual way of memorializing their lost loved ones.

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Tokyo - Japanese police said on Tuesday that they found the bodies of 100 cats, some badly decomposed, in the apartment of a woman who found it hard to part with her pets even when dead.

The woman, who had adopted sick and stray cats for years, kept the bodies in containers including plastic buckets filled with insect repellent and plastic bags with name tags identifying her dead pets, officials said.

The building owner made the grisly discovery after the woman, who is reported to be in her 30s, moved out of the apartment in eastern Kanagawa prefecture in April.

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Pet Loss, the Inspirational Story of My Dog Companions

By Connie Bowen

There I was, standing in the veterinarian’s office looking at the X-Rays she had placed up on the lighted wall, hearing news that every pet owner dreads. “Do you see this tumor right here?” she said. “It’s what’s taking up all the protein in his blood and causing him to vomit and have the diarrhea. It’s inoperable, too large. There’s nothing to be done.” My beloved 11 year old yellow lab, Simon, was not going to be going home with me that day. He wagged his tail and whined to go home. “You can take him with you if you want, but the tumor could burst at any time and he’s not going to be getting any better like we’d hoped.”

After I left her office alone, crying and talking to myself all the way home, I shook my head. I’d held him for those last few minutes while she administered the shot that put him to sleep. “He wanted to go home, but he couldn’t,” I told myself. The guilt crept in, but I pushed it aside. I thought back to a time 12 years earlier, and I knew the grief that was starting to seep in would be manageable this time, for I remembered the song of life told to me by my aged German Shepherd who had faced the same prognosis 12 years earlier.

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Can I Put My Pet in My Will?

By Pete Glocker

Have you ever wondered what to do with your pet if you suddenly passed away? Who is going to take care of it? What if it gets sick and needs medical attention? Who is going to pay the medical bills? Who is going to pay for routine shots? These are many questions you may ask yourself in thinking about this confusing topic.

Stated in an article on www.animallaw.info, the Uniform Trust Act of 2000 does not allow you to will property to an animal per se, but it allows you to set up a trust for the continuing care of your pet. The Act itself is an example of the increased recognition of animal interests.

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Pet Loss Support: Coping with the Sudden Loss of a Pet

By Marcia Breitenbach

Accidental Pet Death

While many people watch their pets live out long lives and then cope with the loss of their pet at an old age, others find themselves faced with the sudden and traumatic loss of a pet through an accident or carelessness. Anytime a loss is sudden, we often feel a flood of guilt and questions afterward. Sometimes that guilt can be haunting, filling our mind and heart with heaviness and confusion.

Normal Guilt Responses

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Remember Your Pet With A Memorial Urn

By Jim Johnson

Pets can often become an integral part of our everyday lives and we cherish and appreciate the relationship that is forged over the years together. That’s why the death of a loved pet can be an important event in life. And there is certainly a grieving process that one must go through to be able to carry on with life after such a loss.

For some, the simple disposal of the body in burial is fine. But for others, a more involved memorialization makes them feel better. For instance, there are now pet cemetaries available to be able to allow the pet owner to return and visit the grave for many years after the pet’s death.

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Coping with the loss of a pet

by Dave Watson

I run an online pet memorial web site and as you can imagine I come into contact with many people who have lost a much loved pet or animal companion.

Looking through the memorial web sites that pet owners create when a beloved pet passes away has shown my that there are a number of ways that people come to cope with the loss of a pet.

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Unconditional

By Melissa Lok

You were there when no one else was, when the world hated me and did everything it could to break me down. You were there to show me that I mattered and that I did belong regardless of what mistakes I had made in the past. You never judged me for leaving you when you really needed me. You never held a grudge for more than a couple of minutes. You taught me how to be patient when I wanted you to rush from place to place. You always knew how to ease my pain and calm me down during some of the hardest moments of my teenage years. You showed me that life was too short to be mad at all the time. Life has never been the same since you left.

I think about you all the time. I wish you were here to calm me down. You always understood me when no one else did and you never left my side. I wonder what it would be like if you were still here? But I know you’re in a better place where everyone is happy and doesn’t have to deal with fixing the problems of the ones they love. I miss you more than any word can describe. I could use some of your life lessons right about now. Life is not the same without you.

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On March 14, 2005, my parents had to put PEPPY to sleep, one day before coming back from their winter vacation. He was 14 years old and died of liver and kidney complications. He was a good pet to my folks and was also a good traveller. Every year he would travel with my folks by car from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada to Hemet, California, USA and be a ’snow-bird’ dog up to4 months each year. According to Google Maps, each trip one way was 3,246 KM …

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