The story of Bobby, the Skye terrier which refused to leave his master's grave in historic Greyfriar's churchyard, came to prominence in the 1890s when Eleanor Atkinson, an American, wrote a book about the dog which became a first reading book for a generation of many Americans.
The life-size sculpture of Bobby was erected on a drinking fountain at Greyfriar's
churchyard and must be the most photographed dog in Edinburgh.