Fido's final resting place

The intimate, bizarre, and endearing world of animal burial

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(Image credit: (Three Lions/Getty Images)Animals have long been revered enough to warrant proper burials — ancient Egyptians, for example, mummified cats. But there's something particularly endearing about)

(Image credit: (Fox Photos/Getty Images)For pet owners, love doesn't die with the dog."When a dog dies suddenly like Trooper died the moment of decision came, 'What do we do with him?' I could often think o)

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2006: Small cubby hole memorials, loaded with keepsakes and photos honoring dead pets, are seen at the Merciful Pets Paradise in Taipei, Taiwan. People burn incense and stacks of paper money for their dead dogs, cats, parrots, and other animals now kept in urns. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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2013: The casket of K-9 Deputy Eron is carried by an honor guard past deputies and their K-9 partners during his funeral at Precious Pets Cemetery in Spencer, Oklahoma. Deputy Eron enjoyed an eight-year career of service to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office with two handlers. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.