For many owners, a pet is more than just an animal, withthethought of little Fidos ashes being thrown into a landfilltoomuch to bear and fuelling a surge in demand for pet urns.
One out of 10 dog and cat owners wo成人頻道,uld buy an urn for their petonits death, according to a survey by the American PetProductsManufacturers Association. That translates to nearly 20millionurns and 12.5 million headstones each year. Its anex噴霧式增髮,tremelyfast-growing industry, said Glenn Lyle of B&LCremationSystems Inc. in North Largo, Florida, which makes humanand animalcremation equipment.
One gentleman said he had the remains of his頸椎痛貼布, dog in a box inhisdesk drawer, Mytych said. People are looking for a place toputit, and frankly I think our urn is tasteful. The urnselectionhas been pretty bad up until now. Theres a lot ofsmall,novelty-looking urns, Mytych said.
Since backyard burials are forbidden in many U.S. markets andarelogistically impossible for urban apartment dwellers, cremationisthe only means of disposal for many. Owners of pets who dieatanimal hospitals are incinerated along with other animals andtheirremains disposed of at a local landfill or rendering plant. Iftheowner wants the remains back, the animal iscrematedindividually.
The practice of memorializing pets dates back thousands ofyears,all the way to the ancient Egyptians, said Step美容化妝品,henZawistowski, ahistorian at the ASPCA (American Society for thePrevention ofCruelty to Animals).If you were an ancient Egyptian,you wouldveshaved your eyebrows as a form of mourning for yourdead cat, hesaid. In the pyramids they found thousands ofembalmed cats - catmu妹妹ies, said Zawistowski.There is evidencegoing back 6,000 to10,000 years of people burying their pets,Zawistowski said.