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left-of-center2012

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Mon Nov 12, 2018, 07:26 PM Nov 2018

Mourning dog waits for 80 days in road where owner died

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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Mourning dog waits for 80 days in road where owner died (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Nov 2018 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2018 #1
When I got bad health news I was looking at the many silver linings... BigmanPigman Nov 2018 #2
... Duppers Nov 2018 #6
Oh, my... catbyte Nov 2018 #3
Video of the dog. Cattledog Nov 2018 #4
Unbelievable, undying loyalty and friendship of a dog. democratisphere Nov 2018 #5
This poor devoutly loyal pup. My hear breaks. Duppers Nov 2018 #7

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BigmanPigman

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2. When I got bad health news I was looking at the many silver linings...
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 07:43 PM
Nov 2018

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.

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