Vault: Is Having A Funeral For A Pet Too Much?
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Get it. The Bird Show. |
| 0:01.7 | Now, they say dogs are man's best friend, and I totally get that. I have two dogs, and I totally get the bond and the connection and that sort of thing. |
| 0:11.4 | But I have noticed that there are a couple people in our life that were over the top when their dogs passed away. |
| 0:20.1 | And I mean in the eulogies and the burial services |
| 0:24.1 | and the extent of email communication and that sort of thing, like almost to the point of |
| 0:31.9 | ridiculousness, like almost to the point of over the top. And I don't know is it, did it go too far or not? |
| 0:39.4 | Like, you know how when somebody has a family member that is ill and maybe battling cancer? |
| 0:46.3 | So they will send out email updates on how that battle is going, what's happening with the chemotherapy or going to a new hospital in another state or that sort of thing. |
| 0:54.8 | Well, we started to get those about a dog. |
| 0:57.3 | And those continued for a couple of months. |
| 1:00.6 | And then when the dog finally... |
| 1:01.5 | So do they read like... |
| 1:03.4 | I read it... |
| 1:04.0 | Just want to let you know that got some bad news this weekend. |
| 1:07.5 | Sparky is going to go into the vet because he hasn't been walking or whatever the |
| 1:12.9 | situation was, but we'll keep you posted. Definitely. Yeah. And so, and this has happened with |
| 1:18.0 | probably three or four different sets of friends and three or four different dogs. So we're not |
| 1:23.1 | talking about just like one person that this is, you know, and so I guess it's just that they have become like a real family member. |
| 1:31.0 | And so they feel like all of their friends need the, you know, sort of update and that sort of thing. |
| 1:36.4 | And then when the dog, one in particular when the dog passed, the length of the eulogy on the email was like it was definitely excessive. |
| 1:48.3 | So I don't know. |
| 1:49.4 | I'm just wondering what is that connection? |
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