Dead Pets Come Forth From Their Graves!!
by WaltI never read Stephen King's Pet Sematary. I'm sure it's filled with foreboding over what can happen when the souls of dead animals are disturbed.
You would think that disturbing any dead animal would incur the wrath of the animal gods.
I mean, after all, look at how many cow ghosts haunt your local McDonald's... Can't you hear that ghostly, "Moo"?? Spooky!
(UPDATE: Apparently I am the only one that can hear ghost cattle haunting McDonald's.)
Well, it comes to pass that a Pet Cemetary was sold, and in its place will lie a Hampton Inn hotel.
The land's seller dictated with the sale that all animal remains would be transported and reburied. So, here we have a picture of a man doing exactly that. Digging up dead pets.
That means a new home for Yogi, Sniffy and a pig named Arnold.
By mid-November, Kaauamo must disturb the rest of Puddles Eggleston, Capt. Nick Danger Myers and Sir Timothy Flash of Skye.
Oh, that Sir Timothy Flash of Skye... now if I had to pick a name for a ghost pet, THAT would top MY list, I can tell you that!
Legally, dead pets don't have after death rights like dead humans do. So moving the animals is done with a lot less formality than moving a cemetary.
About two dozen people, though, opted to pick up their own animal remains and arrange a new burial.Rogers has the remains stacked in the cemetery office, wrapped in brown paper, along with their headstones.
Fluffy. Ginger. Nicki. Tillie. The office bears a pungent odor of the grave.
"This is Arnold," Rogers said, holding up one of the packages. "He was buried in a coffee can."
Dead animal in a coffee can. Sounds like the beginning of a typical gross segment of FEAR FACTOR.
Does it ever make you wonder if the pet you once buried would come back to haunt you someday, haunt you for not giving him/her a proper burial? Perhaps your fishtank is being haunted right now by the goldfish that you flushed down the toilet... Haunting you because the goldfish still had "unfinished business" here on this mortal plain... well, watery mortal plain for a ghost fish. Which begs the question: Can fish ghosts have to only haunt in water? I mean, if you toss the water out of the fish tank, can the fish ghost survive?
Do dog ghosts haunt cat ghosts?
Do hampster ghosts haunt you by using a squeeky hampster wheel? You look over and the empty hampster wheel is slooowwwly turning all by itself. Ooooh! Creepy!
Still, thinking about ghost pets that have gone to the Great Beyond here on Halloween is a nice change from the typical ghostly haunting crap that comes from the traditional Main Stream Media with their "cooky" pieces, like interviewing nutjobs that talk to dead folk. I always have fun on Halloween, but if ghosts were that plentiful, I'm telling you there'd be about five million dead red ant ghosts stinging the crap out of me for poisoning their queen.
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October 30th, 2005 at 10:27 am
Never really read any of Stephen King’s books, and while I’ve seen quite a few of his films, most of them have been crap (The Dead Zone, Stand By Me, and one or two others) being the exception.
As for dead pets, I’ve always felt that being a vet had some — rather unique — advantages, like, if you lose a patient you always have the makings of a good stew.
Gives “Eating Raoul†a new meaning, eh?
The Perfessor
October 30th, 2005 at 10:41 am
Australia exports kangaroo meat, and there's not much complaining from those munching..
But in Australia, there's a remnant of a 60s TV show that was nearly a parallel to the US version of "Flipper". We would never eat "Flipper" and the Aussies have a problem eating ... "Skippy".
But those living on farms know all too well that you end up eating the animals on the farm, so you'd best not make pets out of them.
We have one member of the family here that was converted to vegetarianism because she watched "BABE" at an impressionable age.
October 30th, 2005 at 10:48 am
The only book I've ever read that scared the bejeezus out of me was Pet Sematary! Ewwwww!
October 30th, 2005 at 11:03 am
Oh, Pet Sematary is the worst Stephen King book ever. Not that it was a terrible *idea* for a book. It was just the execution that left much to be desired. I didn't find it all that scary, but I avoided the movie because I heard that it was terrifying. *g*
October 30th, 2005 at 11:07 am
What's the upshot of Pet Semetary? A live cat doing the bidding of the dead or something?
October 30th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Dude, not for nuttin’ but cats (live or otherwise) don’t do the bidding of anyone.
The Perfessor
October 30th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
It was the creepy return of the dead! Ack! I've only read that King, The Green Mile and The Stand, both of which rocked. Avoid PS at all costs. DEAD KITTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 30th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
Too true, Perfessor. That's why I love cats so much.
My FIL actually hates Pet Semetary for another reason. I think a kid dies or something? I don't even remember much about it except that it sucked. Honestly, I'm not even sure I read it. Man, I think I'm losing my mind, hehehe.
October 31st, 2005 at 6:04 am
I happen to personally subscribe to the belief that your position in heaven is determined by the way you treat cats here on Earth.
The Perfessor