A shrine a dog owner in Akureyri, North Iceland, built for his dead pet has become the centre of a neighbourly dispute. Ármann Örn Sigursteinsson, the dog’s owner, witnessed as the small Chihuahua, named Prins, was killed by a car. Ármann told the National Broadcasting Service that his first instinct was to bury the dog and he did so without his neighbour’s consent.
Ármann Örn lives in an apartment building with a shared garden. His neighbours were not too pleased with the grave and notified the local Public Health Authorities.
“They contacted me and requested that I remove the shrine and bury the dog elsewhere,” Ármann explains, admitting he did not responded well to his neighbours appeal to begin with.
However, he now wants to resolve the dispute.
“I want to try and come to an agreement. Perhaps with time I’ll find it easier to remove the grave. But right now I find it consoling to look out my kitchen window and see a lovely cross on my dog’s grave,” he concludes.
A shrine a dog owner in Akureyri, North Iceland, built for his dead pet has become the centre of a neighbourly dispute. Ármann Örn Sigursteinsson, the dog’s owner, witnessed as the small Chihuahua, named Prins, was killed by a car. Ármann told the National Broadcasting Service that his first instinct was to bury the dog and he did so without his neighbour’s consent.
Ármann Örn lives in an apartment building with a shared garden. His neighbours were not too pleased with the grave and notified the local Public Health Authorities.
“They contacted me and requested that I remove the shrine and bury the dog elsewhere,” Ármann explains, admitting he did not responded well to his neighbours appeal to begin with.
However, he now wants to resolve the dispute.
“I want to try and come to an agreement. Perhaps with time I’ll find it easier to remove the grave. But right now I find it consoling to look out my kitchen window and see a lovely cross on my dog’s grave,” he concludes.
