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Colma Pet Cemetery Ordered To Exhume Animals PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Graves On Leased Plot

June 11 - About 1,000 animals, including dogs, cats and monkeys, must be exhumed from a pet cemetery because their burial plots are on leased land the owner wants back. Phillip C'de Baca, owner of the Pet's Rest Cemetery in Colma, said he has contacted pet owners asking them to pick new burial spots on cemetery property. Free cremation also is being offered.
"All these years I was never told Poquito was buried on leased land," said Cathryn Hrudicka, who buried her tiny mixed-breed dog 18 years ago. "Now we have to open it up and bring back all the grief."

One-third of the cemetery belongs to real estate firm Cypress Abbey Co. and has been leased informally since the 1960's, C'de Baca said.


A formal agreement struck in 1986 allowed the cemetery to use the land rent-free on the condition the graves would be exhumed and the land returned in 20 years.

C'de Baca said he believed he would be able to buy the land at the end of the term.

"I probably should have been more clear" to pet owners about the status of the land, C'de Baca said. "But I didn't know he was sincere about not wanting to sell."

Thomas Atwood of Cypress Abbey said he empathizes with the pet owners but needs the land for a planned human cemetery entrance.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4260117
A group of pet owners are trying to form a cooperative to buy the land, but Atwood said he's unwilling to sell.


 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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