Leonard Cohen's Dog...

Our Collies listen to Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin & Schubert most early mornings! As I write, in the charity of darkness, the puppies listen to LC's The Partisan...maudlin but real...a social testimonial of ugliness shaded in beauty (only by music). Thanks Leonard! Forever missed.

​From a dedicated LC site created by Allan Showalter comes this LC quote:
SL: Did you have a dog when you were little?
LC: Yes, I had a Scottie, Scottish terrier. His name was, my mother named him, Tovarich, “comrad.” We called him Tinky. And yes, a very – I guess the closest being to me during my childhood. The dog would sleep under my bed and follow me to school, and wait for me. So that was a great sense of companionship.
SL: Because you sometimes write about the dog.
LC: Well I have his picture on my dresser in Los Angeles. We loved that dog. My sister gave me his picture framed as a present.