. The love of animals
Rossendale Pet Cemetery in Lancashire is just one example of
an animal graveyard in Britain. It was started by a local farmer who ran over
his dog with a tractor. He was so upset that he put up a headstone in memory of
his dog. Now, Rossendale has thousands of graves and plots for caskets of
ashes, with facilities for every kind of animal, from a budgie to a lioness.
Many people are prepared to pay quite large sums of money to give their pets a
decent burial (a trait they share with many Americans). As this example shows,
the British tend to have a sentimental attitude to animals. Nearly half of the
households in Britain keep at least one domestic pet. Most of them do not
bother with such grand arrangements when their pets die, but there are millions
of informal graves in people's back gardens. Moreover, the status of pets is
taken seriously. It is, for example, illegal to run over a dog in your car and
then keep on driving. You have to stop and inform the owner.
Literature
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