Los Angeles Pet Cemetery

Visitors to the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery talk most about Kabar, Rudolph Valentino's dog: people who stop at his marker describe a dog panting at them, or the wet touch of a tongue on the back of a hand, with nothing there. Dr Eugene Jones opened the cemetery on 4 September 1928, and it is among the oldest in the United States; tens of thousands of animals are buried across its fifteen acres, a good many of them Hollywood's, including Mae West's monkey Boogie, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's cocker spaniel Droopy, and Jimmy Durante's Irish setter Muggins. Its mausoleum, put up in 1929, is one of the oldest buildings still standing in Calabasas. In 1973 the Jones family gave the site to the Los Angeles branch of the SPCA, which maintains it and buries here still.