Would you walk your dog in the cemetery?

[sodaklostsoul]

Our cemetery has houses on 3 sides of it and the other day I saw people walking their dogs thru the cemetery. They do walk on the sidewalks thru the cemetery but the dogs walk in the grass. They all have their "duty" bags with them but it just struck me as sick that they would let their dog do his duty on someone's loved one. It just seems wrong to me. If I had a dog I would not walk them in a cemetery.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

[Salacious]

I don't have a dog, but I don't think I'd walk it through the cemetery explicitly for the use of duty detail or is that doody detail.

We've done photo shoots in the cemetery is that just as "wrong?"

[IowaMan]

I wouldn't take a dog for a walk in the cemetery for the express purpose of doing "it's duty" but I have had dogs in a cemetery with me before. I took my grandma's two cocker spaniels to visit her grave a time or two.

[Loulabelle]

Maybe it's just me, but (despite the fact that I'm really not a dog fan at all - yappy, smelly little buggers) I don't really have a problem with it. I suppose I kind of think of it as being part of nature - all part of the 'pushing-up-daisies' thing that appeals to me about being buried rather than cremated. I'm not offended by bird or squirrel droppings on gravestones, so it'd be odd to be bothered about dogs going on the grass nearby. That's not to say that I'd walk my dog there if I ever had one.

There's a cemetary in our town centre that gets used as a park by the local 'goths' and homeless. I find the graffitti and empty beer cans far more offensive than the odd bit of dog mess.

[Neige]

I can't say that I see a problem with it either, to be honest. I've never had a dog but I do like walking through cemeteries and I wouldn't even think twice about bringing my dog with me if I had one.

[osuche]

I don't have a dog...and likely never will...but I would take my dog there. I would make sure to clean up after him, though. :)

I like to visit cemeteries sometimes because they're peaceful places....no harm or offense is meant.

[Lilith]

I would not walk my dog in a cemetary. It's just a respect thing for me.

[Fangtasia]

I would and have walked my dog through a cemetary...no problem with that at all...it is afterall a public place no different to another really.

Mind you i dont walk over graves and i would not permit my dog to either, and certainly not crap on one! That to me would be highly disrepectful to the grave occupant & their family.. But then neither do i permit my dog to crap in shop doorways, that is a sign of no respect for the shop owner nor the people who want to enter the shop..

Always amazes me the people that DO permit their dog to crap anywhere and everywhere...then walk off and leave it there!! Not only disrepectful but damnwell illegal here!

[Oldfart]

Respect?

We can't get people to respect the living, what chance for the dead?

[Mae]

No, I wouldn't walk them in the cemetary unless it was down one of the lanes that skirt the burial plots. Just not comfortable with it.

[dicksbro]

I wouldn't intentionally take a pet to a cemetary so they could use the gravesites as a toilet. Sounds very disrespectful. I've often seen on holidays families visiting loved ones and often they'll sit at graveside to plant flowers or just to remember their loved ones. Thinking someone has been using it as Rover's potty is a bit disgusting.

[Steph]

My grandfather, uncle and cousin are buried in a cemetary close to the ocean. My father and I would visit the graves and then take the dog for a swim. We were always watching him. Plus, they're all buried in the row closest to the road so we weren't walking through the graveyard.

[sodaklostsoul]

I can understand taking a pet to visit a grave, thats cool. I just would make sure the dog had done his business before we went. :D

Anyone gotta pee before we leave? :D

[LixyChick]

It sure is safer than walking them up and down our roads here.

I wouldn't let fido poop on any graves but there are plenty of places to walk a dog without disrespecting a site. I don't have a problem with it.

[WildIrish]

I wouldn't do it simply because even if I were respectful...I wouldn't want someone to see me walking the dog and think I was being disrespectful.


That having been said, when WI No. 1 son was but a wee lad and toilet training, we were vacationing on Martha's Vineyard. We were wandering around Oak Bluffs when the call of nature hit him. As anyone in that situation is aware, that age does not offer one much advance warning so we did what most parents would do...brought him over to this decrepit looking gnarled up cedar tree and had him drop his drawers. While he was whizzing all over this pitiful looking thing, I noticed it was set in cement. Obviously I was intrigued. I abandoned my post to look at the other side of the tree and recoiled in shock, for there was a plaque indicating it was The Consecrated Tree, a place of worship since 1849! A prayer service held there was even mentioned in the written works of Nathaniel Hawthorne!

All I could think of was "Religion? I peeeeeeeeeeesssss on your religion!" :roflmao: