by skyeles » Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:28 pm
I don't know you and am new to the forum, but as a dog-lover and hillwalker I have been following this thread over the last month or so. I've just got back from two weeks holiday on Skye and logged in to see if there was any outcome on Benji, and I'm gutted to read your terribly sad news. It's no consolation, but there is nothing more you could have done to try to find him (along with the help of so many others on here). You tried your very best. As to the cowards who have left unkind messages, remember that is just exactly what they are, cowards, and that the vast majority of people are kind and decent and will feel your pain and your loss.
I pass on my condolences with these words...
"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 frontier 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 the knowing.
The one best place to bury a good
dog is in the heart of his master."
Ben Hur Lampman
