Best of 2000: Best Pet Cemetery

San Diego Pet Memorial Park
8995 Crestmar Point, Miramar
(858) 271-4242
www.sandiegopetmemorial.com

Not just a pet cemetery but also a wildlife sanctuary where critters indigenous to San Diego run around the kitty crypts and doggie tombs. A one-time maintenance fee gets you a basic burial plot, and you can decide later whether to add a headstone. Services are performed with straight faces and customers who opt for cremation can have the remains placed in an urn and delivered to wherever people deliver powdered pets. Their online FAQ contains this caveat: "Caskets are not used for horses because it is neither possible nor efficient."