I don't wanna be buried in a pet cemetery...

[illusionofjoy]

From Pennlive.com:

Ellen Ewing, who has two Brittany spaniels buried in the Humane Society of Lebanon County's animal cemetery behind its Myerstown headquarters, said she and other pet owners couldn't believe what they saw recently.

She and others "walked around in shock" after seeing how gravestones were removed and markers covered over as the society converts the cemetery to a memorial park.

"We feel very violated," Ewing said, adding it looks like someone took a backhoe and pushed the headstones to one side of the cemetery, breaking some.

Tracy Stevens, president of the society's Board of Directors, has said the ground was sinking, making the cemetery difficult to maintain. Plans are to fence in the plot and create a memorial area in which dogs can exercise and prospective owners can meet pets, with no further burials planned.

Eventually, remaining headstones might be placed along a new memorial walk in a wooded area next to the cemetery, Stevens said.

Owners of pets in the cemetery weren't notified of the changes because the society lost the list of names, Stevens said. But the society did put a notice in its newsletter, she said.

So far, Stevens said, no one has asked for a refund of the fee paid for burial, which ranged from $75 to $300.

So, I guess it would be safe to assume that no one at the Humane Society of Lebanon County has ever read a Steven King novel?