Dogs buried with humans

[RiverLight]

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Is anyone here familiar with dogs being buried with humans?

I've heard of it being associated with dogs' roles as psychopomps-- that is, beings that help newly dead folks cross over to the other side.

The custom of burying a dog and the skin of a favourite reindeer with a dead man was still current among Ugrian people of Siberia earlier this century, according to Chernetsove. And, of course, there are the church grims-- these perhaps derive from the belief that the first person to be buried in a churchyard would have to guard any subsequent inhumed souls. Baring-Gould put forward the belief that it was the custom to sacrifice a dog, specifically one without a single white hair, in the foundations of the church (http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/bdogs.htm).

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[K2M]

I had heard of this before, but im not sure if i would want to be buried with my dog... i love him, but it just seems strange to me..