Spot takes Christmas Eve pilgrimage to his master’s grave side
A border collie, named Spot recently escaped from the home of his new owners in Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK to embark on a four mile quest to locate his original owner.
The grieving dog managed to dodge traffic, crossing roads and junctions to find the grave of his last owner, Denis Goodier, a farmer who died at 73.
Almost like an echo from the classic story of Greyfriars Bobby the dog would not leave his master’s tomb and stayed there until he was eventually seem on the grave at St James Church in Sutton close to Macclesfield.
Widow Margaret claimed that Spot hadn’t been to her husband’s grave because she had found Spot a home straight after her husband’s death.
She said:
“They always had a very close bond. Denis thought the world of Spot, but I was amazed when I heard he had trekked all that way to the grave. I had to give Spot away after my husband died because I couldn’t cope with him.”
Spot was given back to Brian Belfield, sheepdog trainer after the incident who was the people who had originally sold Spot as a puppy to Denis Goodier.
Brian Belfield called the dog’s pilgrimage, which occurred on Christmas Eve, “amazing”.
Talking to BBC News Online Brian said:
“Some dogs have got some sort of navigation system based on scent and all sorts of things that we just cannot understand. But it does happen. I know of one foxhound in Snowdonia that got lost yet found its kennels 80 miles away. It trekked over some awful terrain and turned up a fortnight later, after search teams had given up looking.”