Animals and the Final Journey

The zoo investigation was conducted by a team assembled by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.

The lengthiest portion of the report is devoted to Wankie's last hours, and it includes a sad, blow-by-blow description of squabbling among attendants, veterinarians and a truck driver over whether to put a tarp over Wankie's crate in an unheated truck, even as the animal's condition deteriorated rapidly.

Wankie's death will add to debate on whether elephants and some other warm-weather animals belong in frigid places like Chicago, no matter the sophistication of the facilities or attentiveness of the staff. Since , seven zoos in the U. The investigative team also looked into other deaths at the Lincoln Park Zoo over the last several months, including two other elephants, a camel, a cow, a Geoffrey's marmoset, two gorillas, a lion cub only three days old, a gibbon and three Francois langurs. Investigators found no evidence of neglect by staffers at the zoo.

People die of old age, disease and accidents, and so do animals, in zoos or in the wild.

He cremates up to 1, pets each year. No rituals Chinese people are spending more on their pets.

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The pet burial industry, in particular, has been growing rapidly in China in the past decade as grieving animal lovers became more willing to go to greater lengths in putting their beloved pets to rest. In Beijing, cost of a plot at a pet cemetery ranges from 2, to 5, yuan, and a tombstone can cost up to 20, yuan. But Feng's business has nothing to do with this commercial boom.

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Although he's been in the pet industry for a decade, he's against what he thinks is excessive extravagance and has nothing to do with one's love for pets. Many pet cemeteries are just for show. He also refuses to provide other services such as funerals. His crematorium doesn't even have a plaque or a sign on the door. Often, when people call him asking if he could provide cemetery plots or organize a funeral, he would turn them down bluntly. I only do cremation.

05/26/12 Horror on the Final Journey

Some have bad luck and don't have owners that treat them with love. These are the bone fragments of the thousands of stray animals that he had cremated in the past 12 years.

Compassion for deceased pets. Most of the reasons we have for utilizing euthanasia would crumble and vanish if exposed to a more encompassing investigation. How many dogs are put down because of trouble getting up and walking? Would that be the case if people knew how well acupuncture can help that condition?

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A dog may even be paralyzed behind, yet happy to use a doggie wheel chair to get around. The animal may refuse food. The bottom line is this: Does the animal still want to live? Animals are blessed in a way. They tend to go with the flow of things without questioning them. In fact, they even deal with pain often quite casually. In this as in so many areas, we tend to get lost in our own experience. Sensing that the essence of our loved one will survive may lessen our grief, but it barely reduces the helplessness we feel in dealing with practical challenges.

Too often, driven by our concerns about letting the animal suffer, our final decisions are made from a state of fear—the least wise of our guides.

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Though our society tends to separate the act and fact of dying from everyday reality whenever possible, that is not the case in many of the great traditions, including Zen, Tibetan Buddhism and Shamanism. In these, life is seen as an opportunity to prepare for the great transition called dying. When viewed this way, daily life provides us with many chances to practice letting go. We can learn from such wisdom and not confuse our willingness to let our animal go with having to let it be necessarily euthanized.