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2006: Small cubby hole memorials, loaded with keepsakes and photos honoring dead pets, are seen at the Merciful Pets Paradise in Taipei, Taiwan. People burn incense and stacks of paper money for their dead dogs, cats, parrots, and other animals now kept in urns. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
2013: The casket of K-9 Deputy Eron is carried by an honor guard past deputies and their K-9 partners during his funeral at Precious Pets Cemetery in Spencer, Oklahoma. Deputy Eron enjoyed an eight-year career of service to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office with two handlers. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.
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