Dear Bob,
Many thanks for your comments.
With my dog, I bought her beefbones, and the older they get, the more a dog
seems to like them and hide them away 'for later'. I found one under the
armchair and one under the sofa days after I lost her. So I meant those
bones literally, and also 'bones' in the wider sense as remains, but I can
quite see that the latter may be too much of a stretch.
Regards, Margaret
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:37:41 +0000, Bob Cooper
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>Hi Margaret,
>I think the simple statements about simple things that you've made here work
>really well.
>One thought I'm puzzling over is: why weep over "those bones"? I found I was
>giving myself confusing answers i.e. maybe they're bones that had been
>buried and the dog owner dug up later, maybe they're the bones of some
>creature the dog had killed, maybe the word "those" is important - and it
>isn't "these" bones... etc. But it might just be me who doesn't understand
>dogs too well. I lived with 2 cats for quite a few years - but I've never
>had a friend, never mind a close live with friend, who was a dog.
>The title is really effective, really good.
>Bob
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