Myanmar doctor battles to keep country's best known pet cemetery open


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  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

Doctor Tin Htun Naing poses for a photograph at Pyin Htaung Kyaung cemetery, the only cemetery for pets in Yangon, Myanmar, December 11, 2020. Picture taken December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Shwe Paw Mya Tin

YANGON (Reuters) - In a shady corner of a cemetery in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon, pastel-colored headstones mark the final resting places of dozens of beloved pets: "Treasure", "Blacky", "Princess", "Bark A Lotzzi".

Local doctor Tin Htun Naing said he created the burial ground, the country’s largest and best known, in 2015 when his dog, Little Daughter, died after 15 years of loyal companionship and he couldn’t find a place to inter her.

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