Spain’s first public pet cemetery opens with grief help for house owners

Beginning this week, it ought to likely be attainable to bury beloved pets in a public cemetery only for them.

Positioned in Málaga’s Parque Cementerio, this new facility is larger than solely a resting place; it features a memorial park, crematorium, farewell corridor, an home for spreading ashes, and a burial zone for as quite a bit as 500 pets. Solely pets beneath 200 kilograms in weight shall be accepted.

There are completely totally different pet cemeteries in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza, nonetheless none of them are publicly owned an identical to the one in Malaga. Burying a pet in Spain is more likely to be robust; doing so illegally might find yourself in fines from €3,000 as quite a bit as €60,000.

In line with Juan Antonio de Luque, president of Málaga’s Faculty of Veterinarians, this launch is crucial for the Andalusian province, residence to over half one million pets.

“There are over half one million animals, together with canines, cats, ferrets, and completely totally different species, with 114,000 all through the capital metropolis of Málaga alone. Beforehand, house owners wishing to bury their pets wished to resort to non-public cemeteries,” he educated Spanish newspaper El País.

Alongside cremation or burial, Malaga’s cemetery handles post-death paperwork like transporting deceased pets and updating registries. Much more distinctive is the psychological help outfitted to house owners by psychologists.

“The problem of demise is taboo for society generally, nonetheless the demise of animals is seen moderately extra critically on account of individuals query whether or not or not or not the grief over shedding a canine or cat is more likely to be equated with that of shedding a human,”  director of the Animals and Society division at Rey Juan Carlos College Nuria Máximo educated El País.

“As we perceive that household pets are additional members, their caregivers expertise a part of that course of, that transition in route of demise, and a great deal of lack the monetary means to bury them as they could one totally different member of the family. Ensuing from this reality, it is important to have public cemeteries, as they facilitate the grieving course of.”

The prices for the pet cemetery vary from €40 for a serious collective cremation to €975, relying on the service.

Developing on most people pet cemetery in Málaga began in 2016. It price €1.1 million to assemble.