John MacKenna
speaker
119 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6 Sep
John MacKenna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On the back seat of the car there's a dog lead.
It's been there for months.
And in a corner of the kitchen there's a blue bag.
Inside that bag is a container.
That's been there for weeks and probably will be for weeks to come.
No one has the heart to move it.
The container holds the ashes of Leonard.
Leonard was a Labrador, or mostly Labrador.
And for fifteen years he was part of our lives.
Part of the house and garden and the lane where we walked every day.
Everyone on that lane knew him by name, and as the years passed and deafness and arthritis and senility set in, the
They drove slowly behind him, as he meandered his way from one fascinating roadside weed to another.
But produce a ball or a stick and suddenly the dementia and the arthritis disappeared and he became a pup again.
That same pup who came to us at nine weeks from the rescue shelter.
He and his six siblings had been found abandoned in a ditch.
That day when I collected him from the shelter he sat on a towel on my lap as I drove home.
An insignificant scrap of desertion who would become a bundle of gentle loving energy.
And yes, on his road to adulthood he ate his way through an entire couch.
By the time he'd finished, only the springs remained.
But that couch proved sufficient for his wilder appetites.
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