Rolfe 2 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Anyone who keeps dogs, sooner or later, has to say goodbye to a much loved worker or family pet. It never gets any easier in fact the older you get the harder it seems to hit you........maybe its because we become more aware of our own mortality. I'm not ashamed to say I shed a few tears like most true dog lovers do every time i have to make that final dreaded trip to the vets........ knowing I am coming home alone...........I always feel as if i have betrayed a loyal friend however much I know I have made the right decision. Well today........whilst working in the garden of a large country house ( Rabbits & Moles) i came across a little corner of the garden.......hidden well away from prying eyes, that contained a little pet cemetery and the headstones of many ex- household pets. For someone to go to all that trouble to have a memorial stone carved in memory of a much loved dog (not to mention the cost) they must have thought the world of them. Judging by the names on the stones........most were dogs.........and as i stood there i couldn't help but wonder what sort of dogs they might have been. One called "Fleet" I would like to have thought was a running dog of some kind.......maybe it caught rabbits in the same garden where only yesterday my lurcher was doing the same thing. I always take my dogs home from the vets and bury them in a secluded wood that only I and a very few others have access too, I just wondered how everyone else remembers their canine companions and if anyone else erects a memorial stone? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
riohog 5,751 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 just with the memory thats enough for me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lanesra 3,994 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Had a terrier called Rags , my constint companion from 6weeks till he was 17, buried him in corner of my garden and built a nice deckin area over his last restin place, sounds stupid but when i sit there i know he is at my side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mac 30 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Maybe p***y remembers/or knows of the man down his way or surrounding areas (southern ireland) who would have his dog(s) head stuffed and mounted ! i kid you not! (pitbull's/staffords) Little bit morbid, but each to their own ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BLUCHER 1 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Seen the same thing at an old country house in yorks. Turned out a previous occupant was a master of foxhounds, and buried his hunters and favourite foxhounds there, certainly makes you wonder about them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest GoneToGround1 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 i have a lurcher bitch here who wont serve many more seasons shes showing signs of slowing down and being lame after a long day out shes not the best in my kennels but shes my 1st lurcher/first ever dog so shes my favourite mainly because a bitch i bred out of her is in my eyes a very good bitch maybe not in other peoples but its opinions...also both bitches shown me some good action day and night single and double ill probably drop a tear when the old bitch goes shes my best 4 legged friend and well worth my kennel space and time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mattydski 560 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Normally bury them, then plant a fruit tree on them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scent 509 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Maybe p***y remembers/or knows of the man down his way or surrounding areas (southern ireland) who would have his dog(s) head stuffed and mounted ! i kid you not! (pitbull's/staffords) Little bit morbid, but each to their own ! Mac i believe it cause a chap i know had his old lurcher bitch made into a bloody coffee table and thats the gospel truth i shit you not Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRANSIT690 0 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 wife puts a rose bush in but they all seem to die Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,546 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 When my old border passes away i'm getting a tattoo of him done, said that for the past 10 years now. He's my first dog and we showed each other the ropes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue 1 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 We have a patch at the bottom of the garden where all the ferrets are buried and my old faithful staffy x jr is too ,There is a little plant over each ferret and a little plaque for my dog what my daughter placed there as a little reminder of a great companion Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kristian 9 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Don't know if any of you ever seen it but there was a rottie stuffed (taxidermied) for sale on ebay for sale last year and i've seen a pitbull head for sale on there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thehunter09 1 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 just with the memory thats enough for me spot on that matey.same for me.memorys an photos Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gillteal 0 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Maybe Im hypper sensitive at the moment, but got really emotional while reading your post. Like yourself I feel that this isone of the worst things that can ever happen to any pet owner, I had to have my collie put down couple of years ago and still burst into tears when I see a dog that resembles him, went to a local sheep dog trials in the summer and am sure I spent most of the da in tears, (some may say Im sad) but when your dog is your best best friend and they go to hell and back with you, you will do anything with for them. I used to take my dog through a field which would be ladden with snowflakes this time of year, and I have planted snowflakes where I have him burried and I still go and talk to him when Im feeling down and have a good cry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 A framed photo of my 2 dogs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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