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‘They are reunited in Heaven’: dog dies after going on two-day hunger strike following owner’s death
- In its final moments, the dog trekked to a renovated house the old man had wanted to see and died there
- The dog reportedly spent two days laying next to the man’s coffin, not eating or drinking
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A dog in southwest China died this week after it went on a hunger strike for two days following its master’s death from an illness, according to the man’s granddaughter.
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The village dog who was over 10 years old had accompanied the old man since it was a puppy. It spent its final two days laying next to the coffin, not eating, drinking or even moving.
In its final moments, the dog also fulfilled a dying wish of its owner by visiting a family home that the man’s oldest son had recently renovated, which the grandfather had wanted to see before he died.
“The dog then went to my family’s old house and died there, which was also my grandfather’s unfulfilled wish,” the granddaughter, surnamed Sun, said.
Sun also said that the dog died on her grandfather’s birthday, a coincidence that led many people to say it made them “believe in fate”.
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Online, one person commented: “The dog was afraid that the grandpa would be too lonely by himself in Heaven, so he went to keep him company.”
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