Dog treks 100km to return to owners

QIDONG (Nov 6): A one-year-old Golden Retriever has braved 100km over 14 days to get back to its owners in Qidong, China.

Named Ping An (“safe and sound” in Mandarin), the dog was sent to Nantong to stay with the owners’  friends while their house was undergoing renovation.

Published on British’s Ladbible's website and reported by AFP today, Ping An must have felt that four months with the temporary caretakers had been too long, and decided to sneak out to embark on the long journey through China to its home near the Yellow Sea.

After two weeks’ disappearance, the dog was found two weeks thereafter back in her hometown of Qidong, but lost in the city.

City workers who found the skinny Golden Retriever lying down in front of a building posted her picture on popular Chinese social network WeChat, where her owners recognised her.

In a video recording the reunion, Ping An’s owners were heard telling her: “Ping An, you've worked hard. You just stay home from now on. [We] would never send you away.”

Having suffered from injured paws from the arduous trip, the dog was taken by its owners to a vet and is in good shape now.

Two weeks ago a similar story made Chinese headlines, involving a seven-year-old dog called Dou Dou, who was accidentally left in a petrol station in the Hangzhou region. Dou Dou took 26 days to walk through about 60km to find its home, surprising its owners.  

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