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In
Loving Memory of
Ben
June 2006 to Aug 2012
Rest in Peace
Dear friends,
This may be the first that we have told some of you (friends in
LA, Singapore who have known him) that Ben went wandering last
Tuesday PM, and had not returned, whether because this is a new
neighborhood and had gotten lost, was trying to track his way back
to Thornton Ridge, or because he misses Marie so (and he did) and
was tracking her to Stockholm. In any case Auguste been pouring days
into the search, plastering every available telephone pole for
several miles in either direction from home with Ben’s lovely
mugshot; a “Dog-finding-dog” bloodhound tracked him to
Garrison Forest school area, and he was spotted by a neighbor on a
main road area once last Wednesday but not since. We were on the
verge of reaching out to “dog psychics” on Monday but I
was called by a neighbor that Ben has been found, not so very far
away, in repose (shelter? Hiding?) under some bushes on a nearby
horse farm. It is unclear what had happened: hit by a car? Wounded
by varmints (although he is pretty large, albeit gentle)? Or somehow
ill and have wandered off?
Anyway it is all too sad, but perhaps a relief to know of his
fate and being able to locate him. Our neighbor (who owns the farm)
is very kind and has allowed him to be interred where he fell.
Through all this, friends and strangers (a driver stopped her
car when she saw Auguste putting up posters and offered to take some
flyers and I have seen them posted as far down as Greenspring /
Greenspring Valley) and neighbors whom we had not known or met have
all reached out with support.
We’ll all remember Ben of happier times, resting with
crossed paws or splayed upon the ground like a seal, ever patient
and tolerant of Oskar the Krazy Kat (who has very much mellowed or
too is in mourning and missing Ben) and Fudge the bunny, with whom
he has joined in pet heaven.
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