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Selected Sources
Below is just a selection of the many excellent sources I referred to as I was writing this book. Please check them out for even more information about pet death and grief.
If you are having a particularly hard time coping with the death of your pet, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Tufts Pet Loss Support Hotline at 508-839-7966. I hope that if you take away one thing from this book, it is that you are not alone.
INTRODUCTION
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Baker, Steve. Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1993.
Banks, T. J. “Why Some People Want to Be Buried with Their Pets.” Petful, August 28, 2017. Accessed March 18, 2019. https://www.petful.com/animal-welfare/can-pet-buried/.
Berger, John. Why Look at Animals? London: Penguin Books, 2009.
Borrelli, Christopher. “Pet Cemeteries Grow More Popular: ‘Pets Are Family.’” Chicago Tribune, November 1, 2017. Accessed March 19, 2019. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-pet-cemeteries-20171026-story.html.
Brulliard, Karin, and Scott Clement. “How Many Americans Have Pets? An Investigation of Fuzzy Statistics.” Washington Post, January 31, 2019. Accessed November 22, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/01/31/how-many-americans-have-pets-an-investigation-into-fuzzy-statistics/.
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Danovich, Tove K. “The Very Cute, Totally Disturbing Tale of the American ‘It’ Dog.” New York Magazine, April 12, 2021. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://nymag.com/article/2021/04/the-totally-disturbing-tale-of-the-american-it-dog.htm.
Jacquet, Jennifer. “Human Error.” Lapham’s Quarterly, July 17, 2016. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/disaster/human-error.
Kriger, Malcom D. The Peaceable Kingdom in Hartsdale: A Celebration of Pets and Their People. New York: Rosywick Press, 1983.
Martin, Edward C., Jr. Dr. Johnson’s Apple Orchard: The Story of America’s First Pet Cemetery. Paducah, KY: Image Graphics, 1997.
Martin, Edward C., III. The Peaceable Kingdom in Hartsdale: America’s First Pet Cemetery. Hartsdale, NY: Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, 2013.
Nussbaum, Emily. “Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity.” New Yorker, March 16, 2020. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity.
Simpson, Dave. “Why Fiona Apple Is Right to Cancel Her Tour for Her Dying Dog.” The Guardian, November 21, 2012. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/nov/21/fiona-apple-tour-dying-dog.
Wolfelt, Alan D. When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering, and Healing. Fort Collins, CO: Companion Press, 2004.
CHAPTER 1: FISH & FOSSILS
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Claybourne, Anna. Mummies Around the World. London: A&C Black, 2010.
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Ikram, Salima. Beloved Beasts: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2004.
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Keats, Jonathon. “The Animal Mummy Business.” Discover, November 10, 2017. Accessed April 18, 2018. https://discovermagazine.com/2017/dec/the-animal-mummy-business.
King, Barbara J. Being with Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate Our World. New York: Doubleday, 2010.
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Levinson, Boris M. Pet-Oriented Child Psychotherapy. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1997.
Lipton, David. Goodbye, Brecken. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2012.
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Mark, Joshua J. “Dogs in Ancient Egypt.” World History Encyclopedia (website). Article published March 13, 2017. Accessed March 18, 2019. https://www.ancient.eu/article/1031/dogs-in-ancient-egypt/.
Matthews, Mimi. The Pug Who Bit Napoleon: Animal Tales of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Barnsley: Sword & Pen Books, 2017.
Morton, Ella. “Modern Mummification for You and Your Pet.” Atlas Obscura (blog). Slate, March 28, 2014. Accessed November 27, 2019. https://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/03/28/salt_lake_city_based_group_summum_will_mummify_you_and_your_pet.html.
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Nir, Sarah Maslin. “New York Burial Plots Will Now Allow Four-Legged Companions.” New York Times, October 6, 2016. Accessed March 22, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/nyregion/new-york-burial-plots-will-now-allow-four-legged-companions.html.
Poston, Hannah Louise. “How a Kitten Eased My Partner’s Depression.” New York Times, August 13, 2015. Accessed November 26, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/fashion/how-a-kitten-eased-my-partners-depression.html.
Putnam, James. Eyewitness: Mummy. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
Rivenburg, Roy. “Return of the Mummy: A Small Company Has Revived the Egyptian Practice of Preserving Bodies for Posterity.” Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1993. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-27-vw-1906-story.html.
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Tarlach, Gemma. “The Origins of Dogs.” Discover, November 9, 2016. Accessed April 18, 2018. discovermagazine.com/2016/dec/the-origins-of-dogs.
Vatomsky, Sonya. “The Movement to Bury Pets Alongside People.” The Atlantic, October 10, 2017. Accessed March 18, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/10/whole-family-cemeteries/542493/.
von den Driesch, Angela, Dieter Kessler, Frank Steinmann, Véronique Berteaux, and Joris Peters. “Mummified, Deified and Buried at Hermopolis Magna—The Sacred Birds from Tuna El-Gebel, Middle Egypt.” Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant 15 (2005): 203–44.
Watson, Traci. “In Ancient Egypt, Life Wasn’t Easy for Elite Pets.” National Geographic, May 25 2015. Accessed April 18, 2018. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/150525-ancient-egypt-zoo-pets-hierakonpolis-baboons-archaeology/.
Wilcox, Charlotte. Animal Mummies: Preserved Through the Ages. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2003.
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CHAPTER 2: BIRDS & BONDING
Ackerley, J. R. My Dog Tulip. New York: Poseidon Press, 1965.
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Gay, Roxane. “Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion.” New York Times, July 31, 2015. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/opinion/of-lions-and-men-mourning-samuel-dubose-and-cecil-the-lion.html.
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Zagorsky, Jay L. “Americans Are Expected to Spend Half a Billion Dollars on Pet Halloween Costumes This Year, and It Shows Just How Society Values Consumerism.” Insider, October 30, 2019. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-spend-half-billion-dollars-pet-halloween-costumes-consumerism-2019-10.
CHAPTER 3: RODENTS & RESPONSIBILITY
Fincham-Gray, Suzy. My Patients and Other Animals. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2018.
Greenwood, Arin. “What Veterinarians Wished You Knew Before Euthanizing Your Pet.” Today, June 27, 2017. Accessed July 30, 2019. https://www.today.com/series/things-i-wish-i-knew/pet-euthanasia-veterinarians-what-know-when-it-s-time-more-t113053.
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Kean, Hilda. The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two’s Unknown Tragedy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Leffler, David. “Suicide Rates Among Veterinarians Become a Growing Problem.” Washington Post, January 23, 2019. Accessed April 29, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/suicides-among-veterinarians-has-become-a-growing-problem/2019/01/18/0f58df7a-f35b-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html.
Nett, Randall J., Tracy K. Witte, Stacy M. Holzbauer, Brigid L. Elchos, Enzo R. Campagnolo, Karl J. Musgrave, Kris K. Carter, et al. “Risk Factors for Suicide, Attitudes Toward Mental Illness, and Practice-Related Stressors Among US Veterinarians.” Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 247, no. 8 (October 15, 2015): 945–55.
Pierce, Jessica. The Last Walk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Pilkington, Ed. “‘Paris Hilton Syndrome’ Strikes California Animal Shelters.” The Guardian, December 10, 2009. Accessed November 6, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/10/chihuahuas-paris-hilton-syndrome.
Ratcliff, Ace Tilton. “How Starting a Pet Euthanasia Business Saved My Life.” Narratively, June 17, 2019. Accessed July 30, 2019. https://narratively.com/how-starting-a-pet-euthanasia-business-saved-my-life/.
Sabin, Dyani. “A Pet’s Death Can Hurt More Than Losing a Fellow Human.” Popular Science, May 1, 2018. Accessed July 26, 2019. https://www.popsci.com/pet-death-grief/.
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Thayer, Kate. “Veterinarians Work to Prevent Suicide as Study Finds Increased Risk: ‘There Is Absolutely Nothing Weak About Asking for Help.’” Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2019. Accessed April 29, 2019. https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-veterinarians-suicide-20190108-story.html.
Tomasi, Suzanne E., Ethan D. Fechter-Leggett, Nicole T. Edwards, Anna D. Reddish, Alex E. Crosby, and Randall J. Nett. “Suicide Among Veterinarians in the United States from 1979 through 2015.” Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 254, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 104–12.
CHAPTER 4: TURTLES & TAXIDERMY
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Carroll, Stephanie. “Why Were Victorians Obsessed with Death?” Unhinged Historian (blog), November 7, 2012. Accessed June 3, 2019. http://www.unhingedhistorian.com/2012/11/why-were-victorians-obsessed-with-death.html?q=obsessed+with+death.
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Maynard, Jake. “Freeze-Dried Pets Are Forever.” Slate, November 14, 2019. Accessed December 6, 2019. https://slate.com/technology/2019/11/why-people-freeze-dry-their-pets-and-how-it-happens.html.
Messenger, Stephen. “Family Cleans House, Finds Pet Tortoise Missing Since 1982.” Treehugger, February 4, 2013. Accessed June 3, 2019. https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/family-cleans-house-and-finds-pet-tortoise-went-missing-30-years-earlier.html.
Morris, Pat, with Joanna Ebenstein. Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy. New York: Blue Rider, 2014.
Perkins, Anne. “How to Dispose of a Dead Pet: Is Taxidermy the Very Best Option?” The Guardian, December 4, 2017. Accessed July 17, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/04/how-to-dispose-of-a-dead-pet-is-taxidermy-the-very-best-option.
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Wee, Sui-Lee. “His Cat’s Death Left Him Heartbroken, So He Cloned It.” New York Times, September 4, 2019. Accessed December 6, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/business/china-cat-clone.html.
CHAPTER 5: BETTAS & BURIALS
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Metcalfe, Tom. “2,000-Year-Old Dog Graveyard Discovered in Siberia.” Live Science, July 15, 2016. Accessed April 18, 2018. https://www.livescience.com/55415-ancient-dog-graveyard-discovered.html.
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