A legs-itively devoted dog has spent days outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was treated.
The pet, Boncuk (Bon-DJUK), meaning kraal, followed the ambulance that took its owner, Cemal Senturk, to the hospital in the Black Sea city of Trabzon on January 14. She then made daily visits to the facility, private news agency DHA reported Wednesday.
Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli, said she would take Boncuk home, but the dog would repeatedly run away and return to the hospital.
Hospital guard Muhammet Akdeniz told DHA: “She comes every day around 9am and waits until nightfall. She’s not going in. ”
“When the door opens, she’ll stick her head in,” he said.
Cemal Senturk, owner of Boncuk, outside a medical care facility in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, Turkey, Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Boncuk spent five days waiting outside the hospital where her sick owner was being treated. Senturk was later released from hospital on Wednesday and returned home with Boncuk. (DHA via AP)
On Wednesday, Boncuk was finally reunited with Senturk when he was pushed out in a wheelchair for a brief encounter with his dog.
‘She’s very used to me. And I also miss her constantly ”, he said of his fur-ever friend.
Senturk was later released from hospital on Wednesday and went home with Boncuk.