In article >, gravesend10
@verizon.net says...
> Subject: granite experiment
> From: Brooklyn1 >
> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
>
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:39:23 +0100, Janet > wrote:
>
> >In article >, gravesend10
> says...
> >> in rural areas many still maintain a family
> >> plot on their own property... most folks here bury their pets in a
> >> marked grave on their property, or some farmer will, been doing that
> >> for hundreds of years. I have several marked graves for pets on my
> >> property, three I buried myself for neighbors, I'm sure there are many
> >> I haven't discovered yet.
> >
> > When we sold our last place we inserted an abiding instruction into
> >the legal missives, marking our dogs graveyard so that subsequent owners
> >could leave it undisturbed. And, we buried the dogs deep.
> >
> > In the 20 years we lived there, when planting trees I had twice dug up
> >dog skeletons buried close to the surface. One turned out to be only
> >about 10 years old ( neighbours pet buried when the land belonged to
> >him) but the other was something huge like a Great Dane; it had not
> >belonged to the previous two occupants before us; so it must have been
> >there at least 50 years.
> >
> > All our dead cats have been buried with a rose planted on top.
> >
> > Janet UK
>
>
> Digging up a large skeleton is probably wild life,

Nope; it was the skull I dug up and undeniably canine. No wild dogs or
wolves here.

the skeleton you found could have been a goat, sheep
> or pig, could even be a fawn.

All skulls I'm familiar with; their jaws and teeth are nothing like a
dog jaw and teeth.

Janet UK