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Definitely false. One of our favorite dog-walking routes used to include a graveyard. (We were respectful, I promise. But because of the green open space, cemeteries actually tend to be havens for wildlife, too - with all of their very interesting scents!)
Definitely false. I used to take daily walks in a cemetery right by my now former job. There were a lot of dog owners who let their dogs run around UNLEASHED, in spite of signs requiring them to be leashed, right on the parts of the grounds where the Graves were located. Wouldn't have been a lot surprised to see a few of those dogs peeing on the headstones.
So we have to go back to written accounts of a dog that died in 1872?
Or these various legends of dogs transcending their aversion to graveyards out of fierce loyalty to their owners?
None of that counts. Greyfriar's Bobby was biased, he knew somebody in there
However, the accuracy of stories of Greyfriars Bobby has been challenged many times: for instance, in Forbes Macgregor's Greyfriars Bobby: The Real Story at Last, Jan Bondeson's Greyfriars Bobby: The Most Faithful Dog in the World,and Richard Brassey's "Greyfriars Bobby The Most Famous Dog in Scotland".
Questions about the story's accuracy are not new. In a newspaper article in The Scotsman, "Greyfriars Bobby A Dog's Devotion" (11 August 1934), Councillor Wilson McLaren responds to contemporary questions about the accuracy of the stories by describing his own conversation, in 1871, with "Mr Traill" of "Traill's Coffee House" in relation to the dog he himself was then feeding, reassuring readers about the story Mr Traill had given him, and describing responses in 1889 to questions about the story's accuracy. A sense of the difficulty of determining accuracy is gained from two opposing letters to The Scotsman newspaper on 8 February 1889 (part of the debate referred to by McLaren), both from people claiming close links to Greyfriars Kirk, both claiming to have known of the dog personally but with opposing views over the accuracy of stories.
That was a TRUE Story! Bobby died years later still living on he master grave & being fed & care for by the people in town. There have been other stories of animals doing what Bobby did But you mostly see them in Local Newspapers.
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OP have you ever owned a dog?
