Human spirits aren't the only ones spending eternity in the Haunted Mansion. Many of their pets have joined them here as well. Inspired by a similar detail adjacent to the Disneyland attraction, the pet cemetery was added to the Walt Disney World version about a decade ago.
Everything from dogs and cats to birds and snakes can be found here, along with more humorous epitaphs. For example, the monument to Waddle the duck (below) reads, "Beloved Waddle - Little Waddle Saw the Truck - But Little Waddle Didn't Duck."
There's also a statuesque tribute here to a certain amphibian by the name of J. Thaddeus Toad, Esq. Some time after the 1998 closure of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in Fantasyland, this statue of Toad mysteriously appeared in the back corner of the Pet Cemetery. It's a fun bit of Hidden Disney, even if no one claims to know where it came from or how it got there (I'm lookin' at you, Alex Caruthers! wink-wink).
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