[ SHOWGSD-L ] If a Dog Be Well Remembered

From: "Iza Kabuska" <iza10@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "show gsd" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:54:01 -0500
If a Dog Be Well Remembered
We are thinking now of a dog, whose coat was flame in the sunshine and who, so 
far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought.  This dog 
is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its 
proper season the cherry strews petals on the 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.  For if 
the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as 
in life, eyes kindling, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where the dog 
sleeps.  On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees roaring or beside 
a stream he knew in puppy hood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pastureland 
where most exhilarating cattle graze.   It is all one to the dog, and all one 
to you, and nothing is gained and nothing is lost--if memory lives.

But there is one best place to bury a dog.  If you bury him in this spot, 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 belongs there.  People may scoff at you, who see no lightest 
blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper, people who may never 
really have had a dog.  Smile at them, for you shall know something that is 
hidden from them, and which is well worth knowing.  The one best place to bury 
a dog is in the heart of his master.

by Ben Hur Lampman from the Sept. 11, 1925 Portland Oregonian

Karizma's Gallina ROM, "Wolfie"  10/19/92 - l/13/05

Good-bye my sweet big girl
  
Iza Kabuska
http://www.karizmashepherds.com
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