A dog injured in a hit-and-run accident is believed to have walked
almost 200 miles to find the Russian woman who nursed her back to health.
Shavi
was left to die by the side of the road after the crash, in southern Russia’s
Rostov Oblast region last winter.
She
had been living on the streets as a stray when the driver hit her, and then
just drove away, Russian media reported.
He
left Shavi to die in agony with two broken legs by the side of the road, where
she was shivering and freezing.
But
luckily, two passersby saw the animal and took her to the vet, before appealing
online for someone who could care for her as she recovered.
26-year-old
Nina Baranovskaya was the only person who replied to the appeal, it
was reported.
She
picked up Shavi as soon as she’d had an operation on her hind legs and took her
back to her small flat in Rostov-on-Don where she lives with her young daughter
and several other pets.
Then
she helped the dog learn to walk again, teaching her basic commands and playing
with her every day.
Shavi needed a lot of care and attention because
of the lasting trauma from the crash, and Nina had to buy nappies for her and
and comfort her whenever she saw cars in the street or a stranger.
But Nina couldn’t look after Shavi in the
longterm because she has a small flat and family commitments so she found her
pet a loving home with friends 185 miles away.
However, just a few days later the dog went
missing and Nina had a phone call from her friends in a panic.
Two weeks later, Shavi still hadn’t reappeared
and Nina was pretty worried.
But then, Shavi turned up in an unexpected place.
As Nina walked down the road last week she felt
something brush her leg.
It turns out Shavi had walked almost 200 miles
back to Rostov across unfamiliar terrain to be reunited with Nina, who burst
into tears when she realised what had happened.
Experts think
it must have taken more than a week to make the trek, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.
Nina isn’t going to let Shavi go again, and she’s
now looking for a bigger flat so they can stay together.
-UK Metro
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