Pets in the Obituaries?

[AnchorClanker]

My Mom told me last night that our local paper is now running notices for dead cats in the Obituaries section.
She believes that this is disrespectful for the people who have passed away, and was amazed at the LONG write-up for this cat.
She also said that "I'm probably the only person out there that thinks this is stupid."

So, what say you?  I get that we're sad after a pet dies, but is is proper to have a pet obituary WITH the human obituaries?  Might it not be better to have a different listing and not mash them together?

[OttoVonBismarck]

Meh, I consider local papers to be the breeding ground for inanities and trivialities like pet obituaries, so I'd take it in stride. If this is a national newspaper that happens to also be your local newspaper, I'd probably think it inappropriate just for being indecorous and trivial.

[Barrister]

Meh - the obits aren't all that far away from the thinly-disguised prostitution ads in the newspaper classifieds anyways, so it's hard to get too worked up over it.

[AnchorClanker]

Meh, I consider local papers to be the breeding ground for inanities and trivialities like pet obituaries, so I'd take it in stride. If this is a national newspaper that happens to also be your local newspaper, I'd probably think it inappropriate just for being indecorous and trivial.

No, it's the Tillamook Headlight-Herald.

[Neil]

Highly stupid, but this is what local papers have to do now to trick people into buying a product that everyone knows is worthless.

[Valmy]

Highly stupid, but this is what local papers have to do now to trick people into buying a product that everyone knows is worthless.

Yeah going to have to go with the ethnic Albertan on this one.

[garbon]

Highly stupid, but this is what local papers have to do now to trick people into buying a product that everyone knows is worthless.

Yeah going to have to go with the ethnic Albertan on this one.

Agreed.

[AnchorClanker]

I don't know that this is a sales thing so much as an ad revenue thing.

For a local paper, the HH is pretty good, and is well liked by Tillamook County.

[Grey Fox]

I think it's stupid but they are hurting for money. Gotta find it somewhere.

[Ed Anger]

When Drut dies, I will bury him next to the shed. I will drape a nazi flag over his mound and praise my little rabbit killer.

The Panzerlied will waft over the property.

[Zanza]

The Panzerlied will waft over the property.

You play Ich hatt' einen Kameraden for a proper burial.

[Richard Hakluyt]

They should be separate from the human obituaries, then they get the needed revenue without offending people.

[AnchorClanker]

They should be separate from the human obituaries, then they get the needed revenue without offending people.

That's what I think as well.

[CountDeMoney]

So, what say you?  I get that we're sad after a pet dies, but is is proper to have a pet obituary WITH the human obituaries?  Might it not be better to have a different listing and not mash them together?

Some cats have accomplished more with their lives than most people.

[garbon]

So, what say you?  I get that we're sad after a pet dies, but is is proper to have a pet obituary WITH the human obituaries?  Might it not be better to have a different listing and not mash them together?

Some cats have accomplished more with their lives than most people.

Very few is probably a more accurate description than some.