Stray Dogs Pay Respects at Animal Lover's Funeral Meghan Keneally and Elara Mosquera - Good Morning America
go to original March 31, 2015

Photos posted to Facebook on March 15, 2015 by Patricia Urrutia show dogs gathered at the funeral of Urritia's mother, Margarita Suarez, in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. (Patricia Urrutia)

A woman who spent her life caring for stray dogs received an unexpected - and surprising - tribute from the animals when she died.

At the funeral for Margarita Suárez in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico, there was a pack of stray dogs who came inside the funeral home to stand guard.

Suárez's daughter Patricia Urrutia told ABC News that they were shocked, but delighted by the appearance of the canine celebrants.

Adding to the other-worldliness of the situation was the fact that these stray dogs were not even the same ones that her 71-year-old mother had helped during her lifetime. Suárez lived in Merida Yucatan, but her funeral service was in a town more than 830 miles away, her daughter said.

"They stayed with my mother all day, and then at night they all stayed - but In the morning all the dogs vanished but one, but one hour before we brought my mom to be cremated the dogs came back and grouped around as if to say goodbye," Urrutia told ABC News. "I swear by God that it was beautiful, marvelous."

She said that the dogs do not normally hang around the funeral home, and that workers there had never seen anything like it before.

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