Behind the owner, in the dilapidated small courtyard, there was only Da Huang guarding. Da Huang waited by his owner's grave for seven or eight days. Initially, Da Huang ate less and less, and the master worried it might starve itself to death.
In Panjiatun Village of Pudong Town, Jimo, there were two dogs, Xiao Huang and Da Huang. After their owner passed away, one starved to death, and the other refused to leave the owner's grave, touching the villagers.
"That’s Da Huang, it has been guarding by Old Pan's grave for seven or eight days." On the 25th, when reporters came to a small courtyard in Panjiatun, they saw Da Huang lying at the threshold of the old house, looking outside as if waiting for its owner to return. When strangers approached, it quickly hid inside.
This yard was originally home to Old Pan, a 68-year-old lonely elderly man. On November 11th, Old Pan passed away due to illness, leaving behind two guard dogs. Now, the main gate of the yard is crooked, the adobe walls are waist-high, and the only door is nowhere to be found.
"After we finished handling Old Pan's funeral, we suddenly realized that Da Huang had been missing for several days, and Xiao Huang was also gone," said neighbor Mr. Pan. "On the 16th, when we went into Old Pan's house, we found that Xiao Huang had already starved to death. Later, someone discovered that Da Huang had been guarding by Old Pan's grave, refusing to come home no matter how we called it."
The neighbors said that these two dogs were raised by Old Pan for four or five years. Usually, wherever he went, they followed him. Because Xiao Huang had already been buried, the reporter did not know what it looked like. Da Huang was just an ordinary Chinese rural dog, with a drooping left ear and a yellow coat. "It's just an ordinary firewood dog in our countryside. No one took special care of them, and they usually didn't eat much. The night Old Pan passed away, the two dogs barked very sadly. Since then, Da Huang and Xiao Huang have never barked in the yard again."
Mr. Pan said that after the villagers discovered that Da Huang was guarding the owner's grave, they felt both curious and sorry for the little dog and wanted to take Da Huang home. However, it returned to the grave time and again. But around the 19th, Da Huang suddenly came back and no longer left the gate. "I saw its left hind leg limping, and there was blood on its nose, as if it had been beaten."
The reporter tried to feed Da Huang with sausage, but it didn't even sniff it. "Not only you, now acquaintances feed it by putting food in the basin and leaving, and then it comes out to eat a little bit. Nowadays, it eats less and less," the villagers worried whether Da Huang would starve itself to death like Xiao Huang.
Reported by journalist Wang Meng with photographs.
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