IronHorse Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 For ThunderBolt Where To Bury A Dog There are various places within which a dog may be buried. 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 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 his master. Thank you ThunderBolt for coming into my life and being my friend...you will be missed but never forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue R Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Very sorry for your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 sorry, very touching tribute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildFlower Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 So very sorry for your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentleLake Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 My sincere condolences. ThunderBolt will live on in your heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcv-border Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Beautiful words. So sorry for your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urge to herd Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 So sorry you lost your boy, love this tribute. Ruth and Gibbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geonni banner Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 Sorry for your loss. R.I.P. Thunderbolt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloria Atwater Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 Lovely tribute. I'm very sorry your good, good boy is gone. Cherish the things that make your heart smile, even if your eyes must weep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbc1963 Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 So sorry for your loss. Lovely tribute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borasaurus Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 So sorry for your loss. Sometimes, I think about how life with dogs means inevitable broken hearts. But at the same time, they're entirely worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliepoudrier Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 I'm sorry you lost Thunderbolt. They leave such a huge hole in our hearts, but I think the memories of our shared love will eventually heal us. Godspeed Thunderbolt. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody & Duchess Posted November 26, 2015 Report Share Posted November 26, 2015 Never, never enough time with them. So sorry for your loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfreda Posted November 27, 2015 Report Share Posted November 27, 2015 That was a truly beautiful piece of writing in honor of a deeply cherished relationship. So sorry for your loss of Thunderbolt! May he continue to leap thru your dreams and disturb the blades of grass at your feet. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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