Faithful Unto Death: Pet cemetery book talk and signing, Pomona

Name: Faithful Unto Death: Pet cemetery book talk and signing, Pomona
Start: 2024-10-27T15:00:00-07:00
Location: Café con Libros Press

Schedule

Sun Oct 27 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Café con Libros Press | Pomona, CA

In 1881 a dog named Cherry was laid to rest on the outskirts of Hyde Park in London. This seemingly innocuous act spurred a revolution. Other pet owners would soon follow suit, adding graves alongside Cherry's, and the world's first urban pet cemetery was born. Dead pets had previously been consigned to garbage heaps, rending plants, or tossed in rivers, but no more, not after the pet owners of London stood fast in the face of often mocking public sentiment that an animal that had lived and been loved as a family deserves at the end a death with love and dignity. Their example would spread and is now found around the world. Dr. Paul Koudounaris will discuss his new book on animal burials and memorials, Faithful Unto Death.