The market for pet funerals is expanding as owners increasingly opt for cremations and entombing of the ashes, but the lack of a legal framework is causing trouble over crematoriums and funeral service fees.
“Could you put these ‘children’ and me in the same grave?” a woman in her 70s in the city of Chiba asked her son and his wife, referring to her two pet dogs.
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