A paws-itively a devout dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where his sick owner was receiving treatment.
The pet, Boncuk (Bon-DJUK), which means pearl, followed the ambulance that transported its owner, Cemal Senturk, to Trabzon City Hospital in the Black Sea on January 14th. He then made daily visits to the facility, private news reported on Wednesday by the DHA agency.
Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli, said she would take Boncuk home, but the dog would run away repeatedly and return to the hospital.
Hospital security guard Muhammet Akdeniz told DHA: “He comes every day around 9am and waits until nightfall. She doesn’t come in. ”
“When you open the door, you put your head inside,” he said.
Cemal Senturk, owner of Boncuk, outside a medical center in the city of Trabzon, Turkey, in the Black Sea, on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Boncuk has spent five days waiting in front of the hospital where his owner patient was receiving treatment. Senturk was discharged later Wednesday and returned home with Boncuk (DHA via AP)
On Wednesday, Boncuk finally reunited with Senturk when he was pushed out in a wheelchair for a brief meeting with his dog.
“She is very used to me. And I also miss her constantly, ”he said of her skinless friend.
Senturk was discharged later Wednesday and returned home with Boncuk.