On the drive from Wave Rock near Hyden in the town to Perth it will be about one and a half hours to the small town of Corrigin. About 5 km outside of town on the dusty street of the Brookton Highway is an oversized dog statue on the roadside in the middle of Australia Desert. That's curious. I stop to see what is going on with this dog statue itself.
In the desert of the Australian wheat belt, you find yourself suddenly back in a dog cemetery. Many grandiose tombs awaken in me the impression that Australia's population had a particularly close relationship with their dogs. Such ostentatious tombs for dogs are still nowhere else I met, and many a contemporary of the human species is less pompously buried as the four-legged dortzulande. I wonder what may be the reason for the emergence of these dogs graves in this lonely place well.
Now it is in fact so that Australians have a particularly close relationship with their dogs. To an Australian man and his dog is one where the man is his dog! At work, in the local pub, playing sports, the best friend of the man should never be absent. Most people meet the two on the road, the man with his car and bridge in the back of his dog. You will find this intimate bond between man and dog most likely in the bush in the wilderness, where there are both the most dependent on each other. To me is because a similar close relationship in the Canadian wilderness in the gold mining regions encountered by Yukon. - Dog, box car and driver, a symbiotic unit.
The Corrigin Dog Cemetery is a unique feature. It was created as a "strike", the dog, Paddy Wright, caved. Paddy was looking for a burial place for his dog and the community allowed him to strike at the point where today the cemetery to bury. Then the dog died of Alan Henderson and he buried him at this point, even a grave stone erected for the animal. Alan served in the impact these and all other graves, this came later, and so came by and by the Corrigin Dog Cemetery which now has 80 or more dogs graves. The graves themselves are very personalized and the texts on them are the obituaries for people close to right, a further indication that Australians consider their dog as a family member and treat him so, beyond death.
I like best is the obituary for Jedda, the 16 years was old and died in 1998:
"In memory of the greatest dog that ever danced to do with his barking and understandable words and could even dance.
They hunted rabbits, but only to play with them
She swam behind the dolphins, but only to them to say good day '
you swam like a fish, she danced like a horse
And now she has reached the end of their journey! "
There is a web site in Australia (http://www.ozburials.com/CemsO/dogcem.htm) with information about funerals, etc. On this page you will find a list of graves with the names of dogs buried in Corrigin and associated grave inscriptions. In an annex explains the operator receiving the dog cemetery on his website with the following words:
"This small cemetery, three miles outside the City of Corrigin located, is a testimony of the wonderful bond that exists between dogs and their human families. The grave, which has touched me the most, the one that was on the stand simply: "We had really great love '! I recorded this cemetery in our directory, because the people who have buried their comrades here, those considered as part of their family. Many of the names have become illegible, so write us if your favorite is buried here, but is not listed. I will gladly add his name. "
are now buried here cats their masters especially at heart.
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