Where sleeping dogs lie
By Meghan Hawkes
About 230km inland from Perth in Western Australia is the Shire of Corrigin’s poignant pet cemetery consisting of the graves of more than 80 dogs. Some headstones are new, others are askew with age.
Graves created from tiles and bricks lie alongside simple wooden crosses held together with pieces of twine. Plastic flowers gather at the feet of ornamental dogs set sentient in concrete. Some dogs are penned in by elaborate railings, confined in death as in life. A food bowl and a sporty hubcap wait patiently on the grave of a tyre-chaser long gone. Continue reading
