The 116-year-old Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in the New York City suburbs is the first animal burial ground to win the honor.

Eric Tyson, who grew up across the street, said Jeffrey Dahmer kept chipmunk and squirrel skeletons in a backyard shed and had an animal burial ground at the side of the house, with graves and little crosses.

Coming from the west, Theatre of Ice senses the power of the death wish, and Mouse Blood bears the marking of the brothers Johnson former hometown, Fallon, Nevada - the site of a massive animal burial ground.

Flooding at a decades-old animal burial site in Russia has raised fears of anthrax infection, it's reported.

The country's Environment Ministry said water quality at about 3,000 underground water sources within a 300-yard radius of animal burial sites across the nation was tested, Yonhap News Agency reported.