Tributes Pour In For A Much-Loved Cemetery Cat Who Consoled Mourners For Over 20 Years

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Tributes have been paid to a much-loved cemetery cat who consoled mourners for 20 YEARS – and has now been BURIED there.

Ginger tabby Barney spent his days walking the grounds of the burial site offering comfort to grieving loved ones during funerals and graveyard visits.

He died aged 20 on Friday evening from old age.

And one of his keepers Alan Curzon has confirmed he has now been laid to rest at the place where he spent his entire life brightening up the lives of hundreds during their darkest moments.

The popular moggy originally lived with his owners next door to the St Sampson’s Cemetery in Guernsey.

But after they moved away he kept returning to his previous territory and was eventually re-homed there.

Alan, 63, the cemetery sexton who has helped look after Barney since 1996 when he was just a kitten, said everyone was devastated.

But he praised the positive impact Barney had on so many people.

He said: “When relatives and friends have suffered the awful loss of someone close to them and go to visit a cemeterythey are not in best frame of mind but Barney was always there to cheer him up.

“For those who entered the cemetery with a heavy heart, he lightened up the experience for them. When people walked through the gates, he often came up to them and brushed against them.

“There was not a bad bone in his body.

“We are putting a plaque on the wall and a bench and have found a little space for him in the cemetery where he is buried as well.

“The place won’t be the same without him and his death has left a gap. I have already seen a lot of people in tears and we are very upset, but he had a good life and was well looked after.”

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Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2016/03/06/tributes-pour-in-for-a-m..

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