Bay County Pet Cemetery

09/22/2025

Bay County, Pet Cemetery Followers:

One week from today, Monday September 29 through Saturday, October 4. The Humane Society of Bay County is organizing a cleanup and they are looking for volunteers to come out and help. They will be at the cemetery from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and hours on Saturday are open Anytime during the day light hours. If you are unable to make it during the day and would like to come out in the evening as long as the daylight is available feel free but please contact myself Jim, 989-245-0376 before doing so, just so I can explain to you what we are trying to accomplish. Thank you so much to any and all that are able and willing to help with this project. We have made some improvements this summer, but we still have a long way to go and the goal is to try and have it completed before the weather gets too bad this fall. 

09/06/2025

Hello Pet Cemetery Followers!!!

Two others and Myself worked in the cemetery this morning for about 2-2 1/2 hours and moved all the existing piles of brush to the front and cleaned half of one fence line. We could still use help before Winter so if you’re interested and have questions, feel free to contact me 989-245-0376.

Thank You!!

09/05/2025

Bay County Pet Cemetery Followers

Although I have not been personally contacted, it has been brought to my attention that burials are to stop at this time. I will post something on this matter as soon as I get confirmation. I have reached out to get this explained to me but have not had my calls returned.

On a lighter note, there have been a couple of people who have been doing a great job helping out with w**d whacking and piling brush and limbs. We can still use more help so that the cemetery is prepared for Winter to make the Spring clean less of a burden. I have secured a couple local businesses to donate some time to help with improvements going forward but one project that requires physical labor is moving all the brush to the front gate area (West end) of the cemetery and finish trimming trees and fence lines.

If you are interested please contact me (989-245-0376) or stop by if you see me working in my yard, I live in the house next to the East end of the cemetery (back or rear of the cemetery).

Sorry for the inconvenience but again I will update as soon as I have more information.

Thank You!!
Jim

07/13/2025

I am looking for some volunteer people to come to the Pet Cemetery and get some w**d whacking done around the trees and headstones and along the fence lines. I am also looking for people to pull limbs and branches and sticks out along the edge of the driveway so that I can get a wood chipper in there and get it cleaned up. Thank you. 

06/04/2025

I Know your name is John, we talked a few minutes. I see you have not been back after digging the hole, are you coming back?

06/14/2024

This Message goes out to all who would like to bury their Beloved Pets. If you are unsure of the procedure to bury your animals, you MUST CALL ME, please!! If you are the people that just buried your pet today, I need you to call me asap.

05/16/2024

I would like to give a BIG shout out to Al!! He came to the Cemetery this afternoon about 4:00 pm and W**d Whacked for about an hour and has a GREAT start to it!! Would like to see more join in!
THANK YOU SIR!!

05/15/2024

I know a lot of people have said they would like to help, just letting you know that the Cemetery has been cut and could use some serious w**d whacking. So if you want to come out, you will see how close we can get with the mowers and w**d whack around the headstones we can hopefully cut it again before Memorial Day but if not it will be cut the week after. Thank You!!

04/14/2024

Thank You for your interest in giving the Pet Cemetery consideration for a resting place for your Beloved Pet but I am not the owner of it and have tried to help with this process to ensure that you have a place to be able to give your Pets a place for Eternal Rest and a Place for You to Visit them.

This Property has been abandoned by the original owners family and the Township does not have any interest in giving it the care that it needs to be maintained. I have tried to Organize Clean Up efforts to make it easier to maintain over the last few years. Myself and my Neighbor have tried to keep it cut and I have had many of you that have said you would be more than happy to help with making this property nice once again but when I have scheduled these Clean Ups, no one shows up. The Cemetery is beginning to get out of control with the amount of recent burials and animals are being buried in places they shouldn’t be and also being buried where others have already been buried.

I am also receiving calls in the middle of the night asking about how to go about Funerals and what needs to be done to bury the pets that have passed. I am willing and have been willing to help with your losses but again this is getting overwhelming for the fact that I don’t need to be called in the middle of the night, the guidelines that we have tried to establish are not being followed and the help that has been offered is nonexistent.

I am willing to give this one last effort this summer to help you with a nice place for you to lay your Pets to Rest but I need your help for this to happen. I regret to have to say this but if improvement and changes to the issues stated don’t happen, I am going to have to contact the township on how to go about getting it closed. This Pet Cemetery has been something I have been involved with over 50 years going back to my childhood and I know how nice it once was and would like to see it have structure again but this is only possible with the help of those who use it.

I am sorry if this causes some to be upset but again I’m not the owner, nor am I in charge of what can and cannot happen here but eight years ago when I moved into my house, the cemetery was overgrown and was a dumpster for debris. I agreed to help a young lady with trying to clean it up and improve it but it has recently became a situation where it has been left entirely up to me to maintain and I truly apologize for the situation but I have no choice but to ask for an honest effort to get it under control by those who are using it or try to get it closed.

03/09/2024

10/05/2023