A dog's life, honoured: 'We called her Luna, short for lunatic – she was well-named'

After the death of Luna, one of Anne Harrington’s beloved lurchers, she set up a pet commemoration service to help owners grieve, says Helen O’Callaghan

Anne Harrington and her husband, Dave Rees with dogs Luna and Seren,

THEY were her two blonde girls (originally named Hazel and Honey) and renamed Luna and Seren by Anne Harrington and her Welsh-born husband, Dave Rees.

They were lurchers, adopted by the West Cork-based couple from an animal rescue charity in 2007. “Seren is Welsh for star — that’s the name Dave wanted for her. I looked at Irish mythology and thought of naming her sister Púca, but a friend said never give a dog a name you’d be embarrassed to call from a distance!