spike milligan dog poem(i think)

[gilygone]

can any body please tell me the name of the poem about a shaggy grey i think dogby spike milligan?i remember reading it in primary school and cannot find the answer under google .any help would be wonderful many thanks

[pauln90]

The only reference to a dog in a Spike Milligan poem is this

The Dog Lovers by Spike Milligan
So they bought you
And kept you in a
Very good home
Cental heating
TV
A deep freeze
A very good home-
No one to take you
For that lovely long run-
But otherwise
'A very good home'
They fed you Pal and Chun
But not that lovely long run,
Until, mad with energy and boredom
You escaped- and ran and ran and ran
Under a car.
Today they will cry for you-
Tomorrow they will buy another dog.

And here is link to all his poems

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/spike_mil ligan/poems

[tigerlily11]

AWw sad but oh so true.

[terambulan]

In my primary school we read Wordsworth & Tennyson. If this is teaching I despair for the children.