Yes, people still bury their pets. They are not, however, buried next to their owners.

Odd, that the relationship between dogs and Native Americans should surface at this time...

Last week, a friend and her partner (Metis) were visiting. He kept getting up from the table and walking to the back porch. I finally asked what he was doing. She giggled and told me he was talking to the dogs next door. "He's just like that," she explained. And yes, thats exactly what he was doing. It seemed he preferred to talk to them than to us. In the morning, the first thing he did was go out to talk to the dogs and it was the last thing he did at night.

In every other way, he is socially normal. In fact, he's a well respected sound engineer. Everyone talks to dogs but it was the frequency of his 'talks' which was a bit odd. The dogs next door are very nice dogs and he was sad to say good-bye to them. I've been around first Nations people all my life but I've never met anyone who had this 'special' relationship to dogs.