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An easy-to-miss stone marker in the SLC foothills is all that remains of Utah’s first pet cemetery.

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The headstone for an Irish wolfhound named Nebby marks the location of a former pet cemetery near the mouth of Dry Creek Canyon in Salt Lake City. Wes Long On a hillside overlooking the Wagner Jewish Community Center and the Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Kathryn Kirk building, near a convergence of the Bonneville Shoreline and Red Butte Skyline Nature trails, stands a headstone to an Irish Wolfhound named Nebby.

This marker, adjacent to a tree and a bench, is all that remains of Utah’s first pet cemetery.

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