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Pet burial donation not well spent
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Sep. 10, 2009 12:20 am
Wear your “grubbies,” bring gloves and weed trimmers. This is a partial list of what you will need if you are going to visit the Cedar Valley Humane Society Pet Cemetery. Good luck finding your pet's grave marker.
I was appalled at the condition. I went to put flowers on the graves of the four pets that I have buried there. I thought I knew exactly the location of each pet. Wrong. The weeds are so bad that they had completely covered the grave markers.
I searched, pulled weeds and finally (after 45 minutes) located each grave. At the cost of $500 each, this is only one example of how donated money is not spent.
Carole Wieland
Anamosa
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