If you're even the slightest bit a Japanophile, you know the story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that waited for its dead owner to come home to Shibuya station. (Tokyo's most famous rendezvous point is the cluster of benches in front of his statue.) Brian clues us in to a video, via Laughing Squid, about a dog in Texas that is doing the same thing: waiting for its owner, Wayne Giroux, to come home. Wayne was killed by a drunk driver in June, but the dog doesn't know it. Sad.
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November 17, 2010
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There are 2 famous stories like that here in the UK too.
This one is from Edinburgh, Scotland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_
This ones from Beddgelert, Wales: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelert
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