You Can't Ride Around With A Tiger On Your Bike One man-cub, one motorbike. And a tiger-striped poncho, just in case.

Edinburgh

UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 2 November 2011 | Views [692]

The grave of Bobby, the most loyal pup in the world. To this day passers-by still leave gifts of chew-toys or sticks for his ghost to fetch. Silly silly. He ain't fetchin' shyte I'm afraid. Poor thing's dead ay.

A wall of the Greyfriars Kirkyard, covered with memorial tablets to those poor unfortunates committed to the ground, and possibly dug up at a later stage to be sold to the local university for dissection (a scarily easy way to make cash back in the day, the uni paying big coin for a freshly dead corpse)

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The statue commemorating Ye Olde Bobby. Years before his passing, a law was put through stating all dogs without an owner were to be destroyed. The mayor of Edinburgh at the time, hearing this paid for Bobbys' license, thus sparing him from a fate worse than.. um.. sparing him from a fate of death. When Bobby finally carked it, his body wasn't allowed to be buried within the cemetary as it was consecrated ground. He was instead buried just inside the gate, close to the final resting place of his master. Happy ending. As happy as it ever gets in Scotland anyway.

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You Can't Ride Around With A Tiger On Your Bike One man-cub, one motorbike. And a tiger-striped poncho, just in case.

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