Where to Bury a Dog

Pet and Wildlife Art

Where 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

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 worth knowing

The one best place to bury a dog

Is in the heart

Of his master