Jerry Moore

I mean, what would a Disney film based on Tammy the tapeworm look like?

because of the affinity between people and their animals.

This is something that you should realize that here in the United States, as well as elsewhere in Europe, for example, in the United Kingdom, we have explicit laws stating why animals and humans cannot be buried together.

And in part, those laws exist in order to make sure that folks who love their cats and dogs don't get interred with them.

So this is a cultural barrier that we've got.

In fact, one of the reasons that people are attracted to having their cats cremated is so that they can have the cat with them after the animal has died.

which they otherwise would not be able to do given our state laws about cemeteries and burials.

Yeah.

And, and with that, there's an implication generally that there is an afterlife that you are going, both going into and you don't want to go make that journey alone.

That's correct.

And I know that's true in California.

And in fact, one of the interesting things here in Carson is we've got a human cemetery just down the street from our pet cemetery.

And that's as close as someone can get to being buried near their cat.

Well, the first thing is that cats actually are trying often to communicate with us.

And this is something that I'd been living around cats for a long time, and I only learned this recently, that when a domesticated cat approaches you and its tail is up, that's a symbol signifying, yeah, I want to interact with you.

So the tail up is actually a symbol.

That's one thing.

The second thing I think that's really fascinating and kind of unexpected about cats is just how smart and curious they are.

That in and of itself is kind of a fascinating mystery, isn't it?

I wouldn't say that about a goldfish, for example.