Loyal Dog Refuses To Leave Roadside Where Owner Died In Car Crash More Than A Year Ago

A loyal dog abandoned after his owner was killed in a car crash in Siberia has resiliently refused to leave the spot for more than a year - in the vain hope that its owner will return.

The loyal hound, believed to be a mongrel, was abandoned after the car crash in autumn 2014, when people first started noticing it standing beside the road, and some even tried to catch it.

But when the animal refused to be captured, kind hearted animal lovers began feeding the dog, and even put a kennel beside the road.

Sadly, the new home was too near to the road and it was destroyed by a truck, although a new one was built only a few weeks later in the village of Berkut, near the town of Yalutorovsk in south-central Russia’s Tyumen Oblast region.

The animal still refused to be put off, and came back to the roadside where it continues to wait for its owner.

Animal activist Anastasia Selina said: ‘We haven’t been able to get anywhere near the animal, it only seems to want to get to its previous owner and as far as we know they didn’t survive the car accident.

‘It doesn’t trust anyone else, and will not even let anybody even stroke it. We advise people not to disturb it, because we are worried it might run under a car if it gets scared.’

Despite the cold weather, the dog has survived a second Siberian winter and it’s all down to the motorists who hanks to motorists throw food out of the window to aid his survival.

Now, a campaign has now been started to find a home for the dog and to re-home him permanently.

The animal has also been called the ‘Siberian Hachiko’ – named after the famed Japanese Akita dog who is remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner.