Photos: A resting place for forever friends

Trajan, Tiffany and Toby are three of the dogs that retired U.S. Army Col. James Reid and his wife, Riet, have buried at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. Trajan died in 2013; Reid held an open-casket visitation for him at the cemetery. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Nov. 30, 2014 4:20 PM PT

Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York is the world’s largest burial ground for pets, with at least 100,000 animals. Pet owners can now have their remains interred there too.

Rhona Levy has four pets at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery: three cats and a dog. She plans to be buried with them one day. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Urns and caskets for all types of pets are sold at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Retired Col. James Reid of Smithtown, N.Y., holds a picture of his dog Trajan, a Rhodesian ridgeback who lived to be 13. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Retired Col. James W. Reid, right and his wife, Riet, visit their four dogs at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery regularly. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Hartsdale Pet Cemetery’s director says there are about 100,000 animals buried in the grounds, although it’s impossible to say for certain since many plots contain more than one pet. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Jeanine Callace of White Plains, N.Y., spends time in the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery visitation room with her rabbit, Sammy. She is involved with rabbit rescue and has buried other pets at the cemetery. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Sammy the rabbit lies in an open casket under a blanket at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, where visitation and planting flowers are among the services. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)