Muggs, James Thurber’s household Airedale pet dog, receives Environmentally friendly Lawn monument
A statue of James Thurber's cantankerous family dog, Muggs, is finally going up in Green Lawn Cemetery. Workers prepped the location near Thurber's plot on Tuesday, August 10, 2021. Jay Biddle of the monument crew, left, and monument crew head Justin Shumway, right, level the base.

In a special spot beneath the shade of an historical tulip poplar tree, the two guys very carefully lowered the 2,200-pound block of granite on to a spot they had dug specially for it, this stone that bears a fairly unflattering epitaph:

“Nobody knew specifically what was the matter with him.”

But then again, individuals who know the tale of Muggs — the infamously cranky dog that belonged to the spouse and children of Columbus’ beloved humorist and cartoonist James Thurber — would have been stunned if this very long-delayed monument placed Tuesday in the Thurber/Fisher household plot in Part 50 of Green Lawn Cemetery claimed nearly anything wonderful at all.

Because let us face it, Thurber’s short tale, “The Pet dog that Bit Individuals,” (from a assortment compiled in 1933) did not make the Airedale terrier appear to be incredibly endearing. It tells us how Muggs little bit fairly

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