We'll Miss You, Little Dude

Nov 24, 2008 15:13

This Saturday, farrandy and bat_cheva said goodbye to their good friend Underfoot.

Underfoot, in addition to having possibly the best name ever for a Corgi, was a first-rate dog. He was smart, a great conversationalist (if you speak Corgi), a snappy dresser, and a total gentleman. He also used a rock for a pillow, had one ear that would never stand up quite right, and could run clean under the resident Big Dog. He often lay flat on his back, his abbreviated limbs splayed every which way. It was my favorite thing he did. Even though he was dignified most of the time, he was flat-out comical to look at, and so he was sort of the designated Hilarity Dog. He was all-purpose and eminently likeable in the way that dogs are supposed to be. He provided affection and companionship and comic relief.

I haven't uploaded all that many pictures of him, but here are some I took a week or so ago. He was very affectionate, but not approval-seeking or needy. He would just come up and put his head on your leg, or nudge your arm to say "Hey, how about some love for the short Welsh guy in the tux?" He talked a lot, Corgi-talk, groans and grunts and sighs.

The rest of the pictures are what I have up on Flickr. The ones from New Year's, when he and Argus were sacked out on the floor after a drunken bender . . . the shots of him snuggling with me and bat_cheva on the floor . . . the devil dog picture. He was really photogenic.





































I went to visit his people tonight, and his absence was felt deeply. I am still getting teary when I think about him. He was a really great dog, my absolute favorite dog in the world, and a very dear friend. I'm kind of strapped for words, my normal glibness fails me, because . . . damn. I loved the little dude a lot, and I know that his people loved him a hundred times more. They gave Underfoot a fine life, and he didn't have a long and unpleasant decline, so he got a really great deal, but everyone who knew him is going to miss the hell out of him.

Good dog.

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