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Loyal dog continues to attend mass at church where owner’s funeral was held

A loyal dog whose owner died late last year has apparently been showing up for Mass every day for the last two months at the church where the funeral was held.
Tommy, a 7-year-old German shepherd, used to accompany his owner, Maria Margherita Lochi, to services at Santa Maria Assunta church in San Donaci, Italy, according to the Daily Mail, and was allowed to sit at her feet.
After Lochi died, the dog "joined mourners at her funeral service" according to locals and "followed after Maria's coffin" as it was carried into the church.
Tommy, a stray who was adopted by Lochi, has been showing up "when the bell rings out to mark the beginning of services" ever since.
"He's there every time I celebrate mass and is very well behaved," Father Donato Panna told the paper. "He doesn't make a sound."
None of the other parishioners has complained, Panna said, and villagers give the dog food and water and allow him to sleep nearby.
"I've not heard one bark from him in all the time he has been coming in," Panna added. "He waits patiently by the side of the altar and just sits there quietly. I didn't have the heart to throw him out

Also for equal time a cool cat story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...sappeared.html

Grandmother Sue White was inconsolable when her beloved cat Miko went missing in August 2002.

After searching high and low for the red Burmese tom, then aged seven, she had finally come to terms with the fact she would never see him again.

But more than ten years later Mrs White, 56, has finally welcomed her beloved pet back into her home in Pilgrims Hatch, near Brentwood, Essex.
A member of the public found him and took him to a vet where he was identified thanks to his microchip.

And although nobody knows where Miko has spent the last decade - it seems he may not have gone too far - as he was discovered just six miles from his owner's home.

Mother-of-one Mrs White, who had moved to a new house shortly before Miko vanished, said: 'Seeing him again was an absolutely fantastic feeling. I am walking around with a permanent grin on my face.

'I look at him even now and just can't believe that I have got him back - it still feels quite surreal really.

'It is so amazing. What's happened to me, let's face it, it's a miracle.

'It would be nice to know where he has been all this time - if only cats could talk.'
Brs White who works as Brentwood Borough Council's insurance officer, scoured the area around her home for Miko when he disappeared, putting up missing cat posters and pushing similar leaflets through letterboxes of 200 homes.

She said: 'I was devastated when he went missing - I cried my eyes out and everything. It was horrible - it felt like I had lost a child.

I can identify with this one. One of my cats went missing for 2 or 3 weeks a while back. Came home the same night I dreamed about a cat running down a road towards home. I went outside after the dream and sat around to see if the dream came true. Just as I was about to give up I heard something trying to climb the fence. It was him Came back with a busted up shoulder. I wish he could have told his story.