Pet Cemeteries are neither new, or a fad. They are at least as old as the Pharaoh's of ancient Egypt, whose cemetery for cats at Luxor existed when the OLD Testament was being written. Early Chinese emperors maintained a dog cemetery at Peking, with tombstones of marble, lapis luzuli, ivory, silver, and gold. Later, Queen Victoria had a cemetery in the Isle of Wight in which her beloved dogs were interred, and the city of Paris has boasted a large pet cemetery on an island in the Seline for many centuries.

Today nearly every major city in the United States, has a pet cemetery, most of them founded fairly recently because of growing pet-burial legal restrictions imposed by city health departments and because of the inhumane aspects of some city pet-disposal programs.