101 cremations: the rise of Bangkok's Buddhist pet funerals

BANGKOK - Buddhist monks chant next to a pink coffin where Dollar's small body is nestled among flowers - a $600 final farewell for the Shih Tzu at a Bangkok temple that administers elaborate pet funerals.

Dollar's owner, Pimrachaya Worakijmanotham, fights back tears as she takes a last fond look at her six-year-old pet dog, whose tousled greywhite body rests under jasmine garlands.

"This is the last time I can be with her ... so I want Dollar to receive good things," said Pimrachaya, dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, a framed photo of "her child" Dollar behind her.