A tiny dog coffin has been found in the backyard of a house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, after an 18-month search.
After the movie’s release, furry actor Bobby rose to fame and raised thousands of pounds for charity through a series of special screenings.
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Dolphinton House, where Bobby was buried in 1974, once belonged to William Merrilis, former Chief of Police of the Lothian Police and Border Police.
Mr. Merrilis, who was a close friend of Walt Disney during the filming of the movie, gave this house to Bobby after the movie was released.
From 1963, Bobby lived with Chief Inspector John Turner and his family in Morningside, Edinburgh until the dog’s death in 1974, but his body was buried in Dolphinton.
John Turner’s nephew, 54, David Hunter, led the search for Bobby’s grave after learning that the Dolphinton cemetery would be bulldozed and built on.
And after 18 months of searching, he succeeded. “To be honest, the fact that we finally found Bobby still confuses me,” Hunter said.
The real Greyfriar Bobby was born in 1856 and lived for two years with his master, John Gray, a private night watchman for the Edinburgh City Police.
When John Gray died, he was buried in Greyfriars Cemetery of the Franciscan Church in Edinburgh’s Old Town. His dog, Bobby, spent the rest of his life, 14 years, sitting at his owner’s grave.
In 1914, the American writer Eleanor Atkinson wrote a novel of the same name about a puppy. And it was this book that inspired Disney’s 1961 movie Bobby of Greyfriars: The True Story.
Negotiations are underway to rebury the little actor’s remains in Edinburgh next to the real Bobby’s remains, which are located outside the gates of Greyffers cemetery, where owner John Gray is buried. Hunter held preliminary discussions with the Church of Scotland and Edinburgh City Council about Bobby’s reburial there.
Today, a statue is erected in his honor in front of this cemetery and it is visited by millions of tourists every year.
“At the time, I felt it was a very inappropriate ending for this movie star, and I wanted to make an effort to find it,” Hunter said. “When Merrilli buried him at Dolphinton, we had a lot of discussion about whether it was right to bring Bobby to Edinburgh. But we decided that he would be immortal by bringing him back to Greyfriars Cemetery, Edinburgh.”
While it is generally accepted that Bobby of Greyfriars is a Skye Terrier, a book published last year says he is most likely a Dandie Dinmont Terrier. After all, Skye Terriers live, as a rule, on the Isle of Skye, about 362 km from Edinburgh, and Dandie Dinmont Terriers were bred in Borders, only 72 km from the Scottish capital.
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