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Cemetery provides pet lovers with safe memorial place
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Seven years ago, Pat Strnot's son's dog died. A
problem arose because the St mots could not find a
place to bury their pet.
Nov; aimed 1,500 pets have found finsl resting
places because Strnot solved the problem by open
ing a pet cemetery.
Strnct said she had thought about opening a
cemetery for many years, but the death of the family
dog finally got the ball rolling. Pets are often treated
as members of the family, she said, and a family
member wouldn't be buried in the backyard. Some
people are appalled by the thought of doing so, she
said.
The EoEing Acres Pet Cemetery, Crematory &
Funeral Home, 400 S. 134th St., now has dogs, cats,
parrots, gerbils, hamsters and even a horse buried
there.
When the pet cemetery opened, Strnot said, she
encountered those who supported the idea and also
some skeptics.
Some people think it's the neatest thing in the
world, she said, while others think opening up a pet.
cemetery is crazy.
Although it is less expensive to bury a pet in the
backyard, Strnot said, the cemetery gives people the
reassurance that their pet will never be disturbed.
They know they can always come and visit their
pet's grave.
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Strnot said that prices range from $20 for a mas3
burial to approximately $140 for a plot which
includes an engraved bronze marker. A casket or a
more extravagant marker costs more, she said.
Those get-rich-quick myths have hurt the reputa
tion of pet cemeteries, because after people find
that owning a pet cemetery isn't the road to easy
street, they abandon the project, she said.
Strnot said she knew a woman who paid to have
her pet buried in Omaha. When she went to visit the
grave two weeks later, bulldozers were leveling the
ground where her pet was supposedly buried. The
woman was heartbroken, Strnot said.
"We have to get Hd of the here today, gone tomor
row image," she said. But Strnot said that isn't a
problem with her cemetery. She said her son la wait
ing in the wir.ga to be the next operator of The
Rolling Acres Pet Cemetery.
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