Toby

TOBY

DIED NOVEMBER 14TH 1996
AGED 13 ½

ALTHOUGH IT IS 3 YEARS SINCE YOU WENT TO SLEEP. I REMEMBER WHEN AS A BABY AT 8 WEEKS YOU CAME TO ME EAGER TO PLEASE YET OUTGOING AND BOLD. YOU HELPED POOR OLD BENJY KEEP HOLD OF HIS LIFE BONDING TOGETHER CLOSE FRIENDS YOU BECAME. BUT WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR BENGY TO LEAVE US FOR GOOD YOU WERE LONELY AND SAD AND SEEMED SO ALONE.

EVEN THOUGH YOU STILL HAD CHILLI BY DAY AND GEORGE AT NIGHT SO WE BOUGHT YOU A NEW PLAYMATE. THOUGH AT FIRST YOU WEREN’T TOO IMPRESSED BUT EVENTUALLY YOU BECAME THE CLOSEST OF FRIENDS. BARNABY WAS FAITHFUL ALWAYS NEAR BY. WANTING TO PLAY WITH YOU AND
FOLLOW YOU ROUND.

TO ME YOU WERE DEVOTED SOMETIMES TOO MUCH. BUT THE FEELING WAS MUTUAL THAT’S WHY YOUR DEPARTURE WAS SUCH A SAD TIME. FOR 13 LONG YEARS ALWAYS TOGETHER WE WERE AND WITHOUT YOU TO CARE FOR MY LIFE IS SO BARE NO ONE TO BULLY ME TO BARK FOR A STICK.

TO PAW ME FOR LOVING OR ATTENTION TO SEEK. I COULD NOT REPLACE YOU. I WOULDN’T EVEN TRY;
YOUR MEMORY IS TOO PRECIOUS.
And will always stay so.

I HOPE NOW YOU ARE RESTING YOU REMEMBER ME STILL AND YOUR PLAYMATE HAS JOINED YOU IN THE BIG DOGGY SKY. REMEMBER I LOVED YOU AND GAVE YOU MY BEST.

I KNOW ALAN WAS JEALOUS OF THE LOVE THAT WE SHARED BUT TO ME YOU WERE SPECIAL. A BOND TIED US TIGHT. WE BOTH NEEDED THE OTHER TO LOVE AND TO HOLD ALWAYS TOGETHER TILL YOUR DEATH MADE US PART

NIGHT NIGHT TOBY JUG
SWEET DREAMS.
REMEMBER ME WELL
BECAUSE I‘LL NEVER FORGET
ALL THE LOVE WE ONCE SHARED.

APRIL 2000

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