Historical past tells us that people worldwide for many centuries have honored both their loved ones as well as their pets upon their death via elaborate human funerals, as well as holy pet memorials. Around 3000 B.C the process of cremation began. in the Near East, later on across northern Europe, going to the British Isles and what’s currently Spain and Portugal around the time of the Bronze Age — 2500 to 1000 B.C. Throughout the Roman Empire around 27 B.C. up to 395 A.D. cremation was extensively applied, and it became tradition for cremated bodies to be placed in elaborate decorated urns. Earth burials took over cremation during Constantine’s Christianization of the Kingdom around 400 A.D. For the next 1,500 years, this kind of disposition has remained the standard all throughout Europe.

An illustration is the discovery of an old pet cemetery along with the remains of 1000 dogs that can be traced back to the Persian rule in Palestine around 539 to 332 BC.

Over a century ago, cremations and pet memorials started to take place in the United States. Hartsdale Pet Cemetery and Crematory is the oldest and most prestigious pet memorial and burial area. In 1896 when the war was closing, the Westchester County, New York cemetery was developed and now holds more than 2000 burial plots. Here, favorite pets are buried in pet caskets, and pet urns, with custom markers and pet memorials at graveside. At present over 70,000 pets are buried there.

Furthermore, the Le Cimetiere des Chiens D’Asnieres-Sur-Seine in France erected a big sculpture with the carving of a Saint Bernard that is holding a child. A dog called Barry lost his life while trying to save the 41st individual in the Alps; he already saved 40.
In the last few decades, there’s been a dramatic rise in cremation in comparison to ground burials, which has increased the need to find a final resting place for a pet’s remains. Pet owners have different preferences some would choose to spread their pet’s ashes while others opt to keeping the ashes by placing it inside a cremation urn.

At present a new trend has surfaced and this trend is branded as tribute art where painters are commissioned in order to paint a portrait of their beloved pets and loved ones.

With the use of the cremated remains. The remains along with a number of hair strands are then incorporated into the craft. Abstract art is the kind of art that follows a thin trail behind religious art except that it is not religious art and it focuses more on color and form.

Testimonies confirm the fact that tribute paintings as pet memorials help people through the healing process after their loved one has passed on.