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Events and Announcements
April 1, 2027 is Cemetery Clean Up for the Charles Street Pet Cemetery and Arlington Memorial Park. ALL items will be removed from the gravesites except the shepherd hook. Please remove anything you wish to keep by March 31, 2027. Please wait until cleanup is completed to bring spring florals or Easter decorations. Keeping track of the calendar in relation to Easter and the cleanup date is the responsibility of the family. If you are not decorating your shepherd hook over the winter, please remove it by October 31. Keep in mind if we have to remove a hook to access a new burial spot, the hook will not be replaced because the frozen ground. Feel free to bring the hook back after the April 1st Spring Cleanup.
Revision of the Decorating Guidelines
There has been a revision to the Pet Cemetery Guidelines. Arlington Memorial Park, our landlord, requested the revision in order to keep our guidelines in line with theirs. The key change is to the shepherd policy. If you are not going to decorate your shepherd hook over the winter, please remove it by October 31st. Please keep in mind, that a hook removed to dig a new, nearby grave may result in the hook getting pulled. Pulled hooks will not be replaced due to the frozen ground. You may bring your shepherd hook back after the April 1st Spring Cleanup. Also, all items on the gravesite and shepherd hooks will be removed during Spring Cleanup. It is the family's responsibility to keep track of the calendar with Easter and Spring Cleanup. No exceptions. Current guidelines are on the website, posted at the front door of the cemetery office, available upon request from the office, and occasionally announced on Facebook.
New Products
As you know, we are located inside Arlington Memorial Park and share office space and staff with them. Plus, they are our landlord. While we've only been around 30 plus years, the people cemetery is going to be 100 years old in 2027. The main cemetery has introduced two new memorial products and has opened the sales to pet families, whether they have used our services or not. The items are commemorative/memorial bricks for a pathway to the main cemetery's Monument Garden and Bronze Butterflies for home memory gardens or to be placed in Monument Garden. Information is found on this website on the Clay Pawprints and Other Products page. Be sure to follow the Facebook Page for the two cemeteries, since we post updates and announcements for the two cemeteries, remember the pets who we assisted after their journey over the Rainbow Bridge and other items.