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Originally Posted by photon
Letting my dog run free (where it's not allowed) and poop (which is the whole purpose of the dog being there to begin with) in an area where others are very likely to find it highly disrespectful to their ancestors is lacking in empathy with those people in my opinion.
Same reason I don't walk ON graves if I'm in a cemetery. I don't care, but others likely do, so I don't out of respect to them (or at least that's the way it used to be, haven't been to a cemetery for a long time).
Again, as I said, my disapproval is provisional based on the assumed details of the story, if the actual details are different then my opinion will of course change. My disapproval isn't set in stone, and I wouldn't do anything about it without (in this case) more information.
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This post made me think about cemeteries and respect for friends and family who have passed.
There is some genuine outrage (and some manufactured outrage as well) over the disrespectful nature of allowing a dog to 'do it's business' in a cemetery.
Those who are outraged, I'd like to ask you when the last time was you visited a dearly departed's gravesite? How regularly do you honour the deceased?
I ask because every Spring my wife and I visit Queens Park cemetery to visit the grave sites of my Mother and grand parents. We pick a nice afternoon and take a bucket, a spade and some cleaning supplies and clean their headstones of overgrown grass, dirt and grime. We 'tell them our news' as we go about this business and say good bye when we're done.
We can't help but notice the huge number of totally neglected sites where the grave markers are all but invisible because no one can be bothered to visit or to respect the final resting place of their friends or relatives.
I will save MY outrage for those people, who disrespect the memory of their family and friends through their neglect.
Of course this doesn't excuse the carelessness or poor judgement of the dog owner for taking a dog to the cemetery in the first place, but let's keep things in perspective folks.