Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Passing of a TV dog

Thanks to the Stage's TV page, I found out about the death of Rick Stein's dog Chalky who always enlived things when watching Stein's programmes.

I know people talk about keeping pets as a great way to teach children about mortality since few pets life-spans extend beyond those expected for humans, but there is always something quite sad in the death of a pet almost precisely because of that. There's something fairly emotionally horrid about either finding a pet dead or having to have it put down.

Although for some reason I keep thinking of it as an inversion of Puff the Magic Dragon: "dragons live for ever, but not little boys" running through my mind in this case as "people live for longer and not so little dogs"...

I think I'm a bit delirious with this combined cough/cold thing...

Matt, are you QUITE sure you don't want the combination?

3 comments:

JoeinVegas said...

Hmm, are you hallucinating too? If so, then it might be worth it. But only if it's David T or an equal alternative. I used to like Mrs. Peel myself.

Lisa Rullsenberg said...

Joe: I regularly have the DT and DH hallucinations...

Just the right side of sanity...

Anonymous said...

Huh! I'm still sore from the other friday when I lost points in our village quiz for having no idea Rick Stein had a dog let alone what he called him.