Crappy Job

According to a post at http://www.fussy.org/ there is an organization in LA that will cremate your beloved pet. Okay. I can see this. Pets are part of the family units. Frankly, some pets are better members of a family than the people. I get that. What has me flummoxed is that this group, apparently, employs "developmentally challenged" people to make a paw print of the critter prior to it being cremated.

Create a mental picture. Your beloved pet is gone, it's been shipped off to be cremated with dignity so that you might keep it's remains in your life -- and someone is asked to lift it's lifeless paw and press it into wet clay so that a print is made.

Okay, perhaps I'm a bit sensitive to the whole pet/exploiting the weak thing. I imagine that the people who actually DO the job are proud of themselves for having a productive activity and making something of lasting value to the pet's owners. But, doesn't it seem a bit like exploitation?

Here kid, we have a job for you -- take this dead animal's paw in your hand and . . . . .

I don't like dead people. I hate it every time I have to bury a dead critter. I try to do it quickly and with some dignity. I think I'd barf if I had to make paw print casts of dead pets all day.