Comments on: Things Left http://harrumpher.com/?p=667 Commentary from a Boston crank. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:15:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Harrumpher http://harrumpher.com/?p=667&cpage=1#comment-1032 Harrumpher Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:18:23 +0000 http://harrumpher.com/?p=667#comment-1032 While not really a cat person, I empathize with you. There is comfort in having a locus. I think of my rural relatives who can bury their people as well as their animals on their land. The small fenced family cemeteries on their property (granted, farms not city lots) give them both proximity and finality. Plus, if they want to chat in their minds or aloud, they have a place for that. While not really a cat person, I empathize with you. There is comfort in having a locus. I think of my rural relatives who can bury their people as well as their animals on their land. The small fenced family cemeteries on their property (granted, farms not city lots) give them both proximity and finality. Plus, if they want to chat in their minds or aloud, they have a place for that.

]]> By: Robin Edgar http://harrumpher.com/?p=667&cpage=1#comment-1031 Robin Edgar Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:27:15 +0000 http://harrumpher.com/?p=667#comment-1031 R.I.P. Tang Believe it or not I envy you. When one of my beloved cats Zeuss died in my arms, apparently as the result of kidney failure, while waiting in the vet's lobby to have him "put to sleep" because he was suffering (convulsions), the vet informed me that I could not take him home with me for burial. Apparently in Montreal, or possibly even at the provincial or national level, there is a law that says that animals that die in the care of the vet must be "disposed of" by the vet. I believe that they are cremated. No burial, no final ritual, nothing aka "love". R.I.P. Tang

Believe it or not I envy you. When one of my beloved cats Zeuss died in my arms, apparently as the result of kidney failure, while waiting in the vet’s lobby to have him “put to sleep” because he was suffering (convulsions), the vet informed me that I could not take him home with me for burial. Apparently in Montreal, or possibly even at the provincial or national level, there is a law that says that animals that die in the care of the vet must be “disposed of” by the vet. I believe that they are cremated. No burial, no final ritual, nothing aka “love”.

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