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Pet cemetery popular in China

By Yu Hongyan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-01-14 16:06

A girl cries before burying ashes of her passed dog in the pet cemetery offered by Hainan Small Animal Protection Association. [Photo / Asianewsphoto]

But Hainan Small Animal Protection Association seems to offer a solution.

The association offers a 5-mu plot outside Haikou, Hainan province, where pet owners can bury their passed pets in the woodland for 300 yuan. Pet bodies, after special treatment, are buried deep underground, and trees with pets' name tags are planted just above the burial location.

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More than 800 pets had been treated in this way, Wu told chinadaily.com.cn.

"Nowadays, luxury funerals for pets are quite common in China, but that's against our advocacy," said Wu Jing, vice president of the association. "The government has issued regulations on raising dogs, and they should have a reasonable end."

"The way we treat passed pets does not obstruct the use of land, nor does it take up too much space," Wu said. "Pet ashes put in wooden boxes are buried deep underground with quicklime scattered beneath. This would help to avoid secondary pollution."

The association was granted another 20-mu plot for burials in 2010, and it plans to set up an animal crematorium and a "wall of ashes", Wu said.

"As there is no relative regulation in China, non-governmental organizations like us should do our part to make this problem get enough attention, Wu said.

 

A girl hangs the name tag of her passed dog on a tree planted just above the burial location in the pet cemetery offered by Hainan Small Animal Protection Association. [Photo / Asianewsphoto]