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US cities see boom in pet cemeteries

When Jim LaMar's border collie, KC, died in 2012, he had her cremated and kept the remains with him in his California home.

At the time, he had a few other options in the area around Bakersfield - there had been a pet cemetery years earlier, but it had fallen into disrepair.

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