On a snow-covered road in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, a dog sits continually waiting for its owner. Despite growing thin and drawn as it waits in the winter cold, the animal has shown no signs of moving for more than a week.
Japanese netizens have been touched by the story, calling the dog a ‘modern-day Hachiko‘. This article about the dog has been re-tweeted over 8,000 times, gathered over 14,000 Facebook ‘likes’ and continues to rouse the emotions of people all over Japan.
From Chunichi Shimbun:
A Dog That Sits Waiting For Its Master Has Been Waiting For Over A Week, Iida City.
On Taihei Road in Uwaiida, Iida City, a dog continues to wait for its master for over a week.
It is a male dog with a body that is around 60cm long, and its fur is brown. He doesn’t wear a collar and looks like he might be a hunting dog. On December 4, when Harada Toshio (70) and his wife Miyoko (70) of Kanaeshimoyama, also in Iida City, passed along a road that had an elevation of around 1000 m in their car, they found a dog sitting still at the side of the road on some vacant land.
Although battered by the rain and snow, the dog showed no signs of moving, but on December 10, when traffic was stopped on the road due to the heavy snow that fluttered down, the dog moved toward the bottom of the mountain. On the afternoon of December 11, he sat before the gate closing off the mountain pass. The dog was painfully thin from living outside, but he never took his eyes off the road.
Mr. and Mrs. Harada said, ‘We wondered if he had strayed from his owner when they were out hunting. Perhaps he has been abandoned, because no matter how long the dog waits his owner never comes. The poor thing must be starving’.
Dog Waits In Snow For Owner's Return, Netizens Touched - japanCRUSH
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