Coby


10/4/91 - 25/2/98

Coby was a Gordon Setter. He was the most beautiful animal I have ever seen. I got him when he was about one and a half years old and he changed my life forever. We stayed in Edinburgh and camped around Scotland and Ireland during holidays. We worked to overcome his many ailments and had a good life together. He filled my life with joy and without him I feel so empty.

Coby even after all this time I think of you every day and miss you more than words could ever say. I know now that what happened was not your fault and will never forgive myself for agreeing to have you put to sleep. I hope you have gone to a better place and hope I will be able to join you soon. Coby you’ll understand when I say that time may have helped heal my face wounds but it will never heal the wounds inside my heart. I love you now as much as ever and will until the day I die. I will never forget you. You will be in my thoughts and in my heart forever.

Here’s a poem that I dedicate to you (only love for you does last forever - even in your absence).

Funeral Blues


Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum,
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let the airplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message "He is dead".
Put great bows around the white necks of the public doves.
Let traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my north, my south, my east, and west,
(Coby, you still are)

My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song.
I thought that love would last forever. I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now, put out every one.
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

-W. H. A u d e n

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Coby,

Its approaching 2 years since I last saw you and I miss you as much as ever. I think about you every day and hope we will be together again soon. I have some of your old blankets which still smell of you and I cherish them. My life is so empty without you.