Dog waits at bus stop for owner for 15 days

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A dog appeared at a bus stop every day for 15 days in Jiezi Town in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, apparently waiting for the return of its owner, West China Metropolis Daily reported today.
The dog appeared each morning at 8am at the parking lot bus stop and looked inside each bus in a vain search for its owner.

It stayed at the bus stop each day for about 10 hours. No one knew if the dog was forgotten or abandoned. Bus riders and transit workers made friends with the dog and gave him a new name — Huanghuang — based on its yellow hair.

“I would feed it first when I went to work every day,” said Gou Huiqun, a parking lot worker.

A driver surnamed Feng had thought about adopting Huanghuang but was afraid that its owner would finally come back for the dog. Gou said Huanghuang stopped showing up yesterday.

People said the dog was like a Chinese version of Hachiko, a Japanese dog remembered for its remarkable loyalty to its owner. It spent 10 years waiting at the bus station for the return of its dead owner until its death.

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