Tiny Stray Dog Follows Runner for 77 miles in a race..finds a new home..

[Stuart G]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stray-dog-gobi-desert-china-joins-runner-dion-leonard-155-mile-race_us_57a3623ae4b0104052a18a86?


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Talk about going the distance.

Thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign, Dion Leonard, an extreme marathon runner is adopting a stray pup he met while running a 155-mile race in the Gobi desert in China. The funds that were raised will help cover medical and quarantine expenses so that the dog can be transported from China to Leonard’s home of Edinburgh, Scotland.

The female dog, who Leonard appropriately named Gobi, joined Leonard on day two of the annual 4 Deserts Race Series and ran side-by-side with him for 77 miles, according to The Independent.


Leonard told the outlet that he had noticed Gobi running with 101 runners during the first day, but on the second day, Gobi was on the start line, looking up at him.

“This was the first contact I had with her and as I ran off the line I noticed her by my side,” he told the Independent. “I didn’t speak much to her that day thinking she wouldn’t stay with me, but at the finish line she followed me into the tent and we slept next to each other. That was it then.”

[narnian60]

1. Awwww.

Thank you, kind human.

[Skittles]

2. people at their finest

yes indeed

[Fla Dem]

3. Wonderful, out of 101 racers, she knew the right one to select.

Lucky Gobi!

[a kennedy]

4. What a great story........I really believe she knew who would give her a good home.

[Stonepounder]

5. And the crowd-funding raised double what was needed to get

her from China to Scotland. Good on everyone.

[3catwoman3]

6. She's so cute!

Here's wishing them a happy reunion. I wish it didn't have to take so long.

[Botany]

7. Well if you think that is something my black lab will come to me when ...

.... I have a piece of bacon and eat it.

Good for Gobi the dog and her new human. I think she will have him trained in no
time.

[Oakenshield]

9. So cute!!!!!!!

So glad Gobi got to keep her human. She's a really cute dog, almost looks like she has some feline in her genetics. Haven't seen a dog like her before.

[shenmue]

10. Squeeeeee