Pampered Pets
From November 2004
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People also are spending more for pet funerals. “There’s a great increase in cremation,” says Donnalie McCord, owner of Sacramento Pet Cemetery and Crematory. “People want to take their pet’s ashes home.”
Cremation costs $132 and up and urns begin at $30; casket burials start at $450; grave markers at $225. People have buried every kind of pet at the cemetery, from tigers and rabbits to birds, even fish. Unconditional love comes in all shapes and sizes.
Why do we love our pets so much?
“We’ve been evolving with dogs for 12,000 to 14,000 years,” says Dr. Richard Timmins, director of the Center for Animals in Society at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. “Cats have been around for 9,500 years.”
“It wasn’t too many decades ago when dogs were kept out in the backyard, chained to the doghouse, tossed a bone and maybe petted every once in a while,” says Timmins. “Before you knew it, they kind of worked their way into the house, into the living room, into the bedroom. Cats, of course, just came into the house and did whatever they wanted.”
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