Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Discarded Property / Mary Shannon Johnstone Part 1. When Did We Start Caring about Animal Death? More than a Bag of Bones: A History of Animal Burials / Ivy D. Collier Mourning the Sacrifice: Behavior and Meaning behind Animal Burials / James Morris Horses, Mourning: Interspecies Embodiment, Belonging, and Bereavement in the Past and Present / Gala Argent The Issue of Animals' Souls within the Anglican Debate in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Alma Massaro Hartsdale Pet Cemetery / Liza Wallis Margulies Part 2. Companion Animals: Those We Love All the World and a Little Bit More: Pet Cemetery Practices and Contemporary Relations between Humans and Their Companion Animals / Michal Piotr Pregowski To All that Fly or Crawl: A Recent History of Mourning for Animals in Korea / Elmer Veldkamp Freeze-Drying Fido: The Uncanny Aesthetics of Modern Taxidermy / Christina M. Colvin Clutching at Straws: Dogs, Death, and Frozen Semen / Chrissie Wanner I Remember Everything: Children, Companion Animals, and a Relational Pedagogy of Remembrance / Joshua Russell On Cats and Contradictions: Mourning Animal Death in an English Community / Becky Tipper So Sorry for the Loss of Your Little Friend: Pets' Grievability in Condolence Cards for Humans Mourning Animals / David Redmalm Claire: Last Days / Julia Schlosser Part 3. Memorials and the "Special" Treatment of the Dead Britain at War: Remembering and Forgetting the Animal Dead of the Second World War / Hilda Kean Now on Exhibit: Our Affection for, Remembrance of, and Tributes to Nonhuman Animals in Museums / Carolyn Merino Mullin Another Death / Emma Kisiel Part 4. Animals We Do Not Mourn In the Heart of Every Horse: Combating a History of Equine Exploitation and Slaughter through the Commemoration of an "Average" Thoroughbred Racehorse / Tamar V. S.
McKee Creating Carnivores and Cannibals: Animal Feed and the Regulation of Grief / Keridiana Chez Mourning the Mundane: Memorializing Road-Killed Animals in North America / Linda Monahan The Unmourned / Linda Brant Part 5. Problems with Coping and Human Responsibility Beyond Coping: Active Mourning in the Animal Sheltering Community / Jessica Austin Mourning for Animals: A Companion Animal Veterinarian's Perspective / Anne Fawcett You're My Sanctuary: Grief, Vulnerability, and Unexpected Secondary Losses for Animal Advocates Mourning a Companion Animal / Nicole R. Pallotta Keeping Ghosts Close: Care and Grief at Sanctuaries / pattrice jones and Lori Gruen Grieving at a Distance / Teya Brooks Pribac Who Is It Acceptable to Grieve? / Jo-Anne McArthur Bibliography About the Contributors Index.