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Fido's final resting place

The intimate, bizarre, and endearing world of animal burial

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by Lauren Hansen
April 29, 2015

1955: A woman kneels at a headstone in the Detroit Canine Cemetery in Michigan. Windy was reportedly a dog that saved his master from knife-wielding thugs. The cemetery was founded in 1927 and had room for 5,000 pets.

(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

1935: A sign hangs outside of a garage on the London-to-Tonbridge road. So many pets were killed by traffic on this stretch that the proprietor created a small cemetery between the property and the road. People often left floral tribut

(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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1964: Moggie the cat pays his last respects to deceased feline Peter at the Pet's Cemetery of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals in Ilford, England.

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1962: Army personnel bury their pets at a cemetery on the Presidio base in San Francisco.

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1994: A pet coffin is displayed at Memorial Park Cemetery in California.

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2007: Endal mourns for a friend at the PDSA Ilford animal cemetery in London.

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2012: A headstone honoring "Satan" rests in a pet cemetery in Huntington Beach, California. The cemetery began operations in 1961, although an increasing number of pet owners are choosing the lower-cost option of cremation because of t

(REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson)

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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2012: Adornments lie at the foot of a tombstone in the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York. The cemetery, established in 1896, is the oldest pet cemetery in the United States and serves as the final resting place for tens of thousands o

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2012: A memorial is seen at a pet cemetery in Huntington Beach, California.

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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)

2012: A memorial is seen at a pet cemetery in Huntington Beach, California.

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2012: A woman visits a grave during a memorial service for military working dogs, at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery.

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