[lit-ideas] Re: Feral Dogs at the River
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:04:59 -0800
JL wrote
Very good story. My other favourite of ferals guarding, if that's what it is
from Disney, "The Jungle Books" -- Mowgli. Although in both Lupa and Mowgli
they were guarding something 'alive', as it were. As for dogs guarding the
dead, my favourite has to go to Landseer's two paintings: the Sheperd's grave
and the shepherd's coffin -- not ferals at all, so should not count.
The best-known story of a dog 'guarding' its master's resting place is
perhaps that of Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier, who stayed (with
breaks for food, etc.) by the grave of his master, John Gray, who died
in Edinburgh in 1858, for fourteen years until his own death in 1872.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby
Robert Paul
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