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mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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I'm so glad you have the pups to see you through. They are clearly in mourning too. Emotions came down the evolutionary chain along with everything else. I joke that people who have a hard time with anthropomorphizing, attributing human emotions to animals, also have a hard time attributing emotions to other people. Creatures are somewhat our great-great-great grandparents in the evolutionary chain. I remember that when I am patting my creatures on the head. Some creature just about like them was walking the earth long before people arrived. Respect is appropriate. What a regal aspect your old boy had. The king is dead; long live the king.
 

HawkeyeLinus

Lifer
Oct 16, 2020
5,816
42,070
Iowa
I am so sorry to only just now read this - just gave our 15 year old and 5 year old pups some good rubs!

He was a lucky boy and probably gave as much love as he got to his family - he always looks so regal.

The best of all thoughts and prayers from all two and four legged residents here! ????✌️✌️
 
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Hovannes

Can't Leave
Dec 28, 2021
355
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Fresno, CA
This following essay from The Oregonian has comforted me too many times over the years:

For years, the most requested reprint from The Oregonian’s archives was an essay by Ben Hur Lampman, which originally appeared in the newspaper Sept. 11, 1925. It is reprinted here in full:


A subscriber of the Ontario Argus has written to the editor of that fine weekly, propounding a certain question, which, so far as we know, yet remains unanswered. The question is this -- “Where shall I bury my dog?” It is asked in advance of death.



The Oregonian trusts the Argus will not be offended if this newspaper undertakes an answer, for surely such a question merits a reply, since the man who asked it, on the evidence of his letter, loves the dog. It distresses him to think of his favorite as dishonored in death, mere carrion in the winter rains. Within that sloping, canine skull, he must reflect when the dog is dead, were thoughts that dignified the dog and honored the master. The hand of the master and of the friend stroked often in affection this rough, pathetic husk that was a dog.



We would say to the Ontario man that there are various places in which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog.



Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else. For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last.



On a hill where the wind is unrebuked, and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.



If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they shall not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there. People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of its master.
 
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Lifer
Oct 22, 2021
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