“A loyal dog in Greece recently melted the hearts of millions around
the world after it was reported that it has spent the last 18 months
at a roadside shrine where his owner tragically lost his life in a
traffic accident.
Nicknamed the “Greek Hachiko” after the legendary Akita Inu who spent years waiting at a train station in Japan for his owner who had passed away, the unnamed white dog has reportedly been living at a roadside shrine near the Greek town of Nafpaktos for the last year and a half.
Despite the efforts of several locals to adopt the dog, he keeps
escaping and always returns to the place where his owner lost his life
in a car crash.
The death of the fateful dog’s owner, a 40-year-old man named Haris,
shocked the region on November 9, 2017, as only a few years earlier,
his brother had perished in a similar accident but in Haris’ case the
story became even more tragic as his dog remained by the roadside
shrine erected in his memory, as if waiting for him to return.
It’s unknown if the dog was in the car at the time of the accident, or
how he made his way to the shrine, which is located in the middle of
nowhere, miles away from the nearest human settlement, but locals say he’s been waiting there ever since the tragedy that claimed Haris’
life.
After trying to relocate the dog only to see him return to the
roadside shrine every time, people built an improvised shelter for him
and started bringing him food and water every day. He reportedly
spends his days lying in the dirt and looking in the distance as if
waiting for his late owner to came back and take him home. The dog
refuses to budge even on hot days, taking refuge in the bushes next to
the shrine.”
AFTER READING THIS my first thought was… WHAT? THE OWNER IS NOT COMING BACK !… SOMEONE SAVES THAT WONDERFUL DOG !…Then, after a while, I realised NOBODY WAS CRAZY ENOUGH TO DROP EVERYTHING and go to a remote location in Greece to locate a dog hiding by the side of the road… THE
ENTIRE WORLD WAS WATCHING, NOBODY WAS DOING ANYTHING.
SO IT WAS DECIDED.. IT WAS UP TO US... WE WERE GOING TO DO IT…