Unlike Long Island, where all you need is a backyard and a shovel, disposing of dead pets with dignity can prove a little more difficult for most NYC residents. There’s always cremation or cemeteries like Hartsdale, where Mariah Carey’s cat Clarence eternally rests in peace, but that could get costly.

Of course, the Sanitation Depart will come collect the corpses for free, but with pet owners caring more about their animals than the homeless, that option as dictated by a 311 operator is probably not gonna fly:

Basically, you can just dispose of the animal in a plastic bag, and on your garbage collection day you can place it out, and you can have the bag saying “dead dog.”

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