Runner’s fund drive to reunite with dog
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AN online donation campaign to get a Chinese stray dog to Britain is underway. The creature accompanied a Scottish athlete during a marathon in the Gobi Desert and has become his true friend. The dog has been named Gobi.
The online-funding project, called Bring Gobi Home, was launched by ultra-runner Dion Leonard. It has 393 backers and will end within 45 days. Leonard posted on Facebook and Twitter his many thanks to donors who were affected by the story.
During the 2016 Gobi March 4 Desert race in China, the dog, about one and a half years old, joined 101 runners, running most of the 250-kilometerroute over the Tianshan Mountain down to the Black Gobi Desert, in northwest China.
With high temperature and drought, the race was torturous even for professional runners. However, Gobi finished the race and found Dion Leonard.
Gobi ran beside 41-year-old Leonard and followed him everywhere. He shared food and water with her and decided to take her back home after winning the silver medal.
“When she came into camp she followed me straight into my tent, lay down next to me and that was that — a bond has been developed,” Leonard was quoted by media as saying.
Adopting Gobi and bringing her to Scotland will cost 5,000 pounds (US$6,519) for medical care, quarantine in both countries and transport. The process would last four to six months.
To make Gobi a family member, the runner launched the funding project. Leonard has raised at least 11,750 pounds.
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