According to daughter Patricia Urrutia, Margarita Suarez dedicated his life to caring for stray dogs and cats. After first, rejecting the idea, funeral home owners relented and let the dogs stay. “This was entirely unexpected and it is a beautiful and marvelous thing,” Urrutia said.
Besides family and friends of Suarez, the media attended the service and reported that the dogs were well behaved.
“They stayed with my mother all day and then all night, but they left in the morning,” Urrutia said. ¨Then, when we brought my mom to be cremated the dogs came back and gathered to say goodbye,” she said.
More evidence that dogs and other animals know so much more than some people give them credit for. Those of us who are animals lovers will not be surprised.