It's been confirmed that horses can become wraiths, hence giving rise to legends of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. The image of The Charge of The Light Brigade on skeletal steeds just makes in inner gothic artist drool!

And Cats, who can see into the Shadowlands unaided (like that gloriously spooky scene in Patrick Swayze's "Ghost"), would no doubt be spiritually aware to attain a ghostly afterlife.
And then there's Ghost Dogs, like the Hound of Baskerville and the Black Dog that harry wayfarers on lonely highways.
So, it seems the requirement for an animal to become a wraith seem to be:
1) Emotionally sentient
2) Have a deep emotional-connection to humans
So what other animals can be found wandering the parks and zoos of Stygia? (Skeleton pigeons dropping ectoplasm on Rockerfeller and Gugenhyme playing chess in Central Park... hehehe

If nothing else, it would be a much more stylistically vibrant underworld like The Neitherwolrld of Beetlejuice or Halloween Town!

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