Bless
Myself and a few friends once accidentally gate-crashed a wake for a pet pig (seriously!) and on the way back to our campsite passed a house with a big banner saying, "To Porky (or somesuch), I'll miss you forever. Love, your best mate, Bonzo the dog", with a muddy pawprint underprint. I almost welled up!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:03, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

By wake do you mean BBQ?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:05, Reply)

How could you
Bonzo is a vegetarian
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:05, Reply)

That'll be why he's all shakey

I saw a Californina woman who brought up her dogs as vegans...un-fucking-believable.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:13, Reply)

Haha, no.
We were holed up in the hotel bar in this village, getting a bit loud and obnoxious to be honest. Not really sensing the atmosphere, we just wondered why they'd failed to call last orders since eleven and it was half-one before they did.

I asked why and they said, "Oh, it's a wake". We were gutted, we thought we'd just destroyed the send off for someone's Gran! It was only when we asked who died the barman told us that it was someone's pig.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:09, Reply)

This is both simultaneously wonderfully touching and yet utterly hilarious!

(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:05, Reply)

do you, by any chance, live in Alabama?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:06, Reply)

That would maybe explain it.
We were off on a camping weekend to Runswick Bay near Whitby.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 24 Dec 2009, 11:10, Reply)