Oh… My… God…
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Hook worm. All I can say is hook worms.
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Do these macaroons (mfing + whackadoodle + morons) whip their cell phones out at open casket funerals? I mean, if this is now a thing, then I can see how the fashion would spread to animals as well.
It’s all far too Victorian for me regardless of my admiration for many things of that era.
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I think they will read this thread and start doing that now. They seem to embrace and dig in to anything that smacks as macaroonish on here. I mean if we ask about consent based riding next they are hosting clinics with lockie philips.
Next they will be encouraging you to put your horse down because it’s a traumatized victim or it has one ecvm oddity. Or they already are. Seriously I see PETA dog world perceptions and trends with the group. Riding is evil and humans are bad so let’s euthanize the animal so it’s in a better place and decorate it with flowers so people feel better about it.
This is gross.
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I’m curious to know when these oddities cross the line into mental illness. A lot of this can be hand-waved away as anthropomorphizing woowoo, but a business in which your model is to decorate horse corpses with flowers and photograph it? So much wrong with that but on a basic evolutionary level it goes against a millennia of human instinct to want to play with corpses.
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Vile and disrespectful. That’s what it is. At least in my opinion.
My grief was overwhelming when I had to euthanize my ornery old Paint that I adored. And then more recently, my beloved, dutiful (genuine) service dog. I know how they spent their last moments. Neither was a peaceful drifting off to slumber over the Rainbow Bridge. In both instances, it. Was. Heartbreaking. 
Yet in some measure, the brutal reality of their passing made me realize the immense earthly bond that was severed. I had no power to keep them here when it was their time to go. And let them go, despite clinging to them tightly, I did. The last thing I would want is a photo where veritable strangers-- for a monetary fee, no less– doll up my horse or dog with floral arrangements in a manner to make their lifeless bodies, the objects of my grief, somehow prettier.
No thank you. I prefer to remember my animal friends waiting for me on the Other Side. One with his ears pricked forward, anticipating a trail ride. The other with her tail wagging, hoping for a trip to Walmart where she can wear her vest and strut beside me proudly. I prefer that over a staged photo of a glassy-eyed, lifeless corpse strewn with chrysanthemums.
But maybe that’s just me.
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It’s not just you.
It’s disgusting and yes – disrespectful. Sorry for your losses! 
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Completely disrespectful and abnormal. A woman TODAY stopped because a cat was dead in the road. She 100% decorated that poor dead kitty and POSTED it on FB. She actually said my friend started posting her dead pets with flowers so ima do it too. Then she tells me her high scholol friends still “have photos of their loved ones in coffins”. I find it so disturbing and I know it started with the witch. I may be overly sensitive but dead bodies are dead bodies. Ritualistically abnormal behavior does not make them less so. Now it’s contagious. 
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I am one of those guilty of sending pets off with things they don’t need, a kitten lost too young wrapped in a brand new baby blanket i’d bought for it while living, a loved dog of ours buried laying on his less than a month old $80 orthopedic bed, so that it doesn’t look so grim throwing dirt on a carcass on the ground
But at no point did I think to grab my phone?!?!? Never looked at a dead animal, made it seem more comfortable for my own sake, then whip out the camera for a cute pic with it!
Are we doing a photoshoot then burying them or are they standing next to the dead body editing these photos for instagram??? I can’t imagine at what step in the process I’d pull out my phone and hunt for the best light and angles while grieving and burying a pet.
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I might stop to remove the body from a place where it will get hit again, or even bury the body.
But certainly not decorate it.
If I do take a photo it is just so I can go to the local lost page to see if this poor animal has a family looking for it.
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Exactly. I do the same thing. It seems respectful for a (formerly) living inhabitant of our community. The glorification of death, because it gets hits on social media, is just ghoulish.
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Honestly I try not to judge how other people grieve, it’s so personal.
But in this instance I don’t get the feeling that it’s grief. I think it’s just more Instagram performance, most likely, just knowing what we already know.
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Totally agree.
I haven’t been following this thread much as this person seems to be a US phenomenon (not saying we don’t have her equivalent up here, but I haven’t stumbled across them) but all of this just reeks of clicks and likes and trying to earn a more then modest living through social media. Just gross.
The grief over the death of my last horse hit me like a ton of bricks. I wasn’t prepared for it. I had lost pets before - so many that it almost became old hat. Feel the sad, move on.
But the death of a horse that had been in my life for almost three decades… I didn’t grieve like that when some family members died. To be taken advantage of monetarily at a time like that… gross.
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I wonder if she got the horse’s consent to photograph him in the afterlife.
Maybe an “animal-spirit” communicator can file a complaint on behalf of the horse for grief monetization. I would pay money to watch that mediation
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thats just funny!!
You are winning today’s internet by several lengths!
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So the Celeste person that was referenced in this thread (is she the THW?? I couldn’t quite tell) suddenly popped up on my FB feed when a mutual friend commented on something.
Yikes! Talk about insta crazed.
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Yes that’s her. She’s the creator of the program.
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oh man… I just went down the rabbit hole 
It reminds me of this girl I went to highschool with that turned herself into an influencer hawking MLM cleaning products, young living oils, and now has moved on to some kind of shake thing. I had to hide her on facebook, I couldn’t hack it anymore.
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I think we ALL know that girl! 
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