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A loyal dog which has waited on a busy road for more than 80 days after its owner died there has captured the hearts of online communities in China.
Footage of the animal in the middle of the road in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, has been viewed 1.4 million times on the popular Sina Weibo microblog. China's Pear Video website said the dog has been seen in the road every day since its owner died on 21 August.
The video was filmed on 10 November and since it was shared on Sina Weibo, the site used instead of Twitter or Facebook in China, users have been commenting on the "loyalty" of the dog.
A taxi driver said people try to help but the dog runs away. "Drivers often give the little dog bits of food, but when we get out, he goes away," he said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-46180260
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BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 13, 2018, 12:26 AM - Edit history (1)
The biggest was knowing that I would live long enough to outlive my little girl who is a 15 1/2 year old "puppy". In fact I was just thinking of this last night as I went to sleep. If I had to leave her she would probably die soon after since we are so close.
I saw a nature TV show a few years ago and a chimp in the jungle died. All the other chimps came and hung around her body and mourned for a while. Her child, a young adult, stayed. He built a hammock in a tree over his mother's dead body and stayed there for three weeks until he died too.
catbyte
(34,336 posts)I so hope he will allow another person to love him & help heal his broken heart.
Cattledog
(5,911 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)This is a real tear jerker.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)Hubs and I have our last babies now. Sigh.