Greyfriars Bobby - true story of a dog

No work till next week, so I forced myself into the fresh air for a ramble about the town. After a couple of miles, just when I started to think "i am having a nice day today!", a hearse drove past me. It's TRUE!

Did you love the "Lassie come home" films? Greyfriars Bobby is one of those TRUE great dog stories that would make you weep. It's so weepy that it has been made into a film more than once.

I have copied this from a website "Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961) Scotland 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done."

Mixing with the rich and famous - In the 1970s my mum took me took me on a special outing which I remember vividly. We went to visit the house of the man (he had been the chief constable of Edinburgh) who had been the master of the dog who "acted" the part of Greyfriar's Bobby in the 1961 film. I was utterly star struck. It's TRUE!

This photo shows the grave of the real Greyfriars Bobby's Master and the grave of Greyfriar's Bobby's friend.