NEILLSVILLE TO EXPLORE "PET CEMETERY"
Monday, August 1st, 2005 -- 12:00 PM
The possibility of Neillsville developing a place for residents to bury their beloved cats, dogs and other pets will be discussed during the board of cemetery commissioners' meeting Monday.Sexton Tom Greene said ?pet cemeteries? were discussed at a cemetery convention he attended.
"Other cemeteries are doing this now," Greene explains. "You can't legally bury human and pet remains together, so, sometimes people don't want to bury (pets) in their backyard anymore, so they buy a lot for their pet in the same cemetery they're going to be buried in."
Greene says there is plenty of room in the Neillsville Cemetery?s northeast corner. Lots for the pet cemetery would sell for much less than lots for the ?human" cemetery. If there?s support for the idea, Greene believes the pet cemetery would be easy to start and maintain, as long as there are some restrictions.
"Some of these pet cemeteries I have pictures of, they have full monuments of their dog or cat in marble and everything," Greene says, explaining the scenario they don't want played out here in Neillsville."
"In a human cemetery you have to go through mapping and recording and deeds, in a pet cemetery, that's not needed," Greene says. "It's real easy to start: put some stakes in the ground and make some markers. We could stake it out ourselves."
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