INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
By Sarah Jenkins and Kerry AllenTheIndianSubcontinent News and TheIndianSubcontinent MonitoringImage copyrightPear VideoImage caption
Pear video said the dog has been in the road since its owner died on 21 August
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.A taxi driver said people try to help but the dog
runs away.Image copyrightPear VideoImage caption
Social media users expressed their concerns for the dog's safety
"Drivers often give the little dog bits of food, but when we get out, he goes away," he said."This owner's relationship with her
After she was killed, this little dog has just stayed standing guard."Every day it's in the road, I always see it
The relationship between man and dog is so true."Image Copyright ??????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.One person said: "This
My family used to have a dog and every day it would wait for me by the village school."Another user was concerned for the welfare of the
pet."It is so dangerous for that doggy to stand in the middle of the road
I hope that some good people can adopt it and take it to a safe place," they said.Image copyrightPEAR VIDEOImage caption
Xiongxiong would wait outside the subway for his owner to finish work
But this is not the first devoted dog to tug on the
heartstrings of those on China's social platforms.Earlier this year, Pear Video users fell hard for an elderly dog named Xiongxiong who
would wait patiently outside a train station for his owner to come home from work.In Japan, Hachiko the Akita became famous in the 1920s for
meeting his master every day at a railway station
He continued to make the journey nine years after his owner's death.Image copyrightWILL ROBB/LONELY PLANETImage caption
A statue of Japan's loyal dog Hachiko stands outside the Shibuya Railway Station in Tokyo
