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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 1805, a young man fell to his death on a mountain in England. When they finally found him, three months later, he wasn’t alone…

His name was Charles Gough, a young artist who set off that April to cross Helvellyn, one of the highest mountains in the Lake District, taking his little dog Foxie with him. Somewhere on the way, he fell and died, far from any path or house, and for weeks nobody knew what had happened to him. Then, on 27 July, a shepherd working near the lonely mountain lake of Red Tarn heard a dog barking. When he followed the sound, he found Gough’s body, and beside it, still keeping watch, was Foxie. She had stayed with her master through all those months, alone on the mountain, and she had even given birth to a puppy there, which sadly didn’t survive.

The story moved all of England: two of the greatest poets of the day, William Wordsworth and Walter Scott, each wrote a poem about it without knowing the other was doing the same, and Scott wrote these lines as if he were speaking to the dog herself:

"How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start?"

More than twenty years later, inspired by Scott’s poem, the young Edwin Landseer painted the scene and called it Attachment. It depicts a dead man lying among the rocks, and a small dog pressing herself against his chest, as if she could still wake him…

Foxie didn’t understand death, but she understood love better than most people ever will. She didn’t know her master was gone, she only knew that he was hers, and that she would not leave him. And that is the miracle every dog offers us, whether we deserve it or not: a love that lasts forever and asks for nothing. Wordsworth said it best, and his words are still carved on a memorial stone on the mountain today:

"How nourished here through such long time
He knows, who gave that love sublime;
And gave that strength of feeling, great
Above all human estimate!"

[Tiger @tiger26931]

"THEY HAD NO CHOICE": REMEMBERING THE EIGHT MILLION HORSES, DOGS, AND PIGEONS OF BRITAIN'S WARS 💜

[Moomz161 @Moomz8161]

Remembering the sacrifice of the brave animals of war also ❤️🐴🐕🇬🇧

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@DailyMail All animals are sentient beings, they are all capable of feelings, love, pain and sadness….billions of animals are slaughtered every single day, most are kept in terrible conditions and abused in deplorable ways! STOP THE 🌍 I WANT TO GET OFF!!!!

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

Dyl ❤️

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@TheRealMadOx I hope he gets his just desserts served up to him in prison 😡💔

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

Life fluffing sucks without you, I didn’t realise that everything I enjoyed doing, were the things I did with you 💔 Dylan

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@RichardBowler1 I’m so very sorry for your loss 💔 Run free over the rainbow bridge little Charlie ❤️ x

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

Am I clinically dead or what!? 😂

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

All credit to my gardener, looking good! 🙌🏻but I sure do miss my old one, Dylan! Rearranging the plants was his favourite pass time ❤️

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@happybrightmoon Thank you ♥️ x

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

Doesn’t feel real, My baby is gone 💔

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

For the first time in my life I haven’t put my tree up…This is my boy Dylan, he’s only 7, he’s in the veterinary hospital with suspected gastrointestinal lymphoma or IBD at best, leaving him there is hell, I’d swap places with him in a heartbeat! Give your babies a big hug!

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

The pain of leaving your babies at the vets when they don’t understand is immeasurable! Give your best friend an extra big hug whenever you can.

Come on Dylan ♥️♥️♥️ mummy loves you

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@domdyer70 That’s a disgrace 💔💔💔 shame on them, hope karma bites them in the ass!!!!! 😡

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@hippojuicefilm If this is Cerebral Palsy it affects muscle coordination, it stops the messages from the brain telling the body what to do, it is not a mental disability, they are a normal (whatever that is) person, with normal thoughts and feelings, but their body is simply not cooperating! 💔

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@HLTCO Congratulations 🙌🏻 Dissapointing for us, but it’s great to see others have their moment too, enjoy!

[Nic @cheshirefox1]

@HedgehogCabin @nocontext_paul Awww hope Nelson makes a full recovery ❤️‍🩹 ♥️ he knows he’s in safe hands!