— A devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern
Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment.
The pet, Boncuk (Bon-DJUK), which
means bead, followed the ambulance that transported her owner, Cemal Senturk,
to hospital in the Black Sea city of Trabzon on Jan. 14. She then made daily
visits to the facility, private news agency DHA reported on Wednesday.
Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli,
said she would take Boncuk home but the dog would repeatedly run off and return
to the hospital.
Hospital security guard Muhammet
Akdeniz told DHA: “She comes every day around 9 a.m. and waits until nightfall.
She doesn’t go in.”
“When the door opens she pokes her head inside,” he said.
On Wednesday, Boncuk was finally
reunited with Senturk when he was pushed outside in a wheelchair for a brief
meeting with his dog.
“She’s very used to me. And I
miss her, too, constantly,” he told DHA.
Senturk was discharged from the
hospital later on Wednesday and returned home with Boncuk.