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Recently,
while traveling, I looked up day-tripper attractions to appointment in Red Bay,
Alabama. On the Internet I apprehend about a cemetery for dogs, that was
somewhat of a day-tripper allure about these parts. Key Underwood Coon Dog
Memorial Cemetery in Northwest Alabama is account the cruise if you are casual
through. I accept never been to a dog cemetery before, nor accept I anytime
endemic this brand of dog. However, I accept endemic dogs that were acutely
baby to me. What they say about a dog getting man's best acquaintance is so
true. For many, accident a dog is like accident a ancestors member. It is
affecting to see this cemetery and the accolade to such admired and committed
hunting dogs. The aboriginal dog to accept been laid to blow in this cemetery
accustomed by Key Underwood is his appropriate acquaintance and coon dog,
Troop, on September 4, 1937, afterwards added than fifteen years of hunting
together. The coon dog cemetery is the alone one of its affectionate in the
world, and alone coon dogs (a coon dog is any dog accomplished to coursing
raccoons) can be active there.
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The atom
that this affectionate dog was active was already a hunting affected that coon
hunters from all over the breadth gathered. Underwood apparent the grave with a
bedrock that he duke adamant out Troop's name, and the date, application alone
a bang and a screwdriver.
Other
hunters began burying their coon dogs in the aforementioned cemetery breadth
Troop was laid to rest. There are in balance of 185 dogs now, from all beyond
the United States active in the cemetery. That I could tell, the endure coon
dog laid to blow in the cemetery, was in 2015.
As I began
walking about the cemetery, initially, my aboriginal consequence was evocative
of a "traditional cemetery" with engraved headstones. But the added I
surveyed this appropriate cemetery, I begin nontraditional grave markers such
as board slats with the name gouged or austere into the wood, some of the grave
markers were rocks that had names categorical in the rock with a duke chisel,
others were bootleg accurate blocks breadth fingers in the already wet accurate
wrote the inscription of their admired dog.
Some of the
graves in the cemetery accept dog memorabilia on the burying sites, for
example, one has a stainless animate dog dish, accession has a dog collar, and
added than one has a dog bridle draped beyond the gravestone. I looked at all
the graves as I absolved about and acclaimed the names of a few that were inscribed
on the stones, including Easy Going Sam, Bean Blossom Bommer, Old Roy, Buck
Shot, Squeak and OL Lou. The headstones are categorical with ardent letters
such as "Ashes of 3, Good Coon Hounds, Friend, and If he Treed in a
mailbox you'd bigger accessible it and attending because he's got em."
In
accession to grave markers and memorabilia, flowers adorning the graves were
everywhere as far as the eye could see. Knowing how abundant these coon dogs
meant to their owners was absolutely touching, and was axiomatic in the
sentiments categorical in the gravestones. If you are in this area, stop by and
appointment such a appropriate cemetery, and don't overlook to assurance the
guestbook. I did!
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