Whilst many have explored changing social trends with human cemeteries, few archeologists have studied the animal equivalent. Dr. Eric Tourigny examined the graves at pet cemeteries in Newcastle and ...

Editor’s Note: Eric Tourigny is a lecturer in historical archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. His research interprets osteological and material culture remains alongside historic texts to examine ...

Short and sweet, this epitaph can be found engraved on a small tombstone in London's Hyde Park. It marks the last resting place of Cherry, a Maltese Terrier — one of 300 pets interred in Hyde Park’s ...

Tourigny analyzed gravestones from four large pet cemeteries in the United Kingdom, including the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Eric Tourigny In 1881, Cherry the Maltese terrier was laid to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dozens of pet gravestones have been damaged by vandals at a pet cemetery in Richmond. Marsha Rodgers, the owner of Pet Memorial Park, says she discovered over the weekend that ...

The owners of a Henrico County pet cemetery are on alert after dozens of gravestones were apparently damaged by vandals. About 92 headstones have been knocked over at the 2-acre Pet Memorial Park, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Vandals have damaged dozens of gravestones at a pet cemetery in Virginia. Marsha Rodgers, the owner of Pet Memorial Park, tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch she discovered over the ...

Dozens of pet gravestones have been damaged by vandals at a pet cemetery in Richmond. Marsha Rodgers, the owner of Pet Memorial Park, says she discovered over the weekend that more than 90 headstones ...