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Dog keeps running away from home to spend days outside Turkish hospital waiting for sick owner
A devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where its sick owner was receiving treatment.
Key points:
- Boncuk had been running away from home and returning to the hospital by itself
- It would wait from about 9:00am until nightfall for Mr Senturk to emerge
- When the hospital doors opened it would poke its head inside looking for Mr Senturk
The pet, named Boncuk — which means bead — followed the ambulance that transported its owner, Cemal Senturk, to hospital in the Black Sea city of Trabzon on January 14.
It then made daily visits to the facility, private Turkish news agency DHA reported on Wednesday.
Mr Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli, said she would take Boncuk home but the dog would repeatedly run off and…
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