This Detroit Dog’s Grave From 1947 Tells An Incredible Story

Walking through a cemetery, you can learn a lot. At my old job, I used to work next to a graveyard, and I read the gravestones when I'd pass by. A gravestone can tell quite the story. Whether it's something written on the grave or a birth/death date that was cut too soon, you can learn a lot from a grave.

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In this case, it was a pet cemetery in Detroit, but the story behind this grave from 1947 tells the story of Man's Best Friend saving their owner's life from a gruesome attack.

Windy the Hero

While browsing Getty Images for another article, I stumbled across a rather random photo from around 1955 showing a woman kneeling at a gravestone at the Detroit Canine Cemetery. The stone reads "Windy, my faithful friend saved my life in 1942".

While the gravestone doesn't tell the whole story, the description on Getty Images tells the rest:

The headstone in the Detroit Canine Cemetery in Michigan marks the grave of 'Windy', a dog who saved his master from knife wielding thugs.

Knife-wielding thugs! Either Windy was a very menacing dog or these "knife-wielding thugs" were pretty bad at being thugs. There isn't much more on this story available, but either way, it sounds pretty bad#%$.

It just goes to show that dogs are loyal to a fault, even 82 years ago.