Dog Walks 125 Miles To Find Owner That Abandoned Him

Alla Morozova is the owner of a shelter in Novosibirsk, Russia. Maru, a Bullmastiff dog, was adopted 5 months old.

Unfortunately, after six months, Alla got a phone call from the couple, who claimed to have animal allergies and wanted to return her to the shelter. It was decided to put Maru on a train, back to the shelter. Luckily an assistant volunteered to take care of him.

“I never give up my dogs, and when they adopt one, it is specified that the owners should contact me if they can no longer have it,” Alla said.

Unfortunately after roughly 125 miles of the journey, the train stopped at a station near Achinsk and the dog escaped. Therefore Maru was afraid because the people she trusted most had abandoned her. She leapt into the compartment, kicked the handle, and almost knocked the driver out of her path.

Unfortunately no one could hold her, so Maru’s manager immediately phoned the couple to report her absence. After they contacted Alla, who asked that they look for her in the Achinsk region, but both refused. The couple appeared careless, as if the dog was no longer their responsibility.

Actually Maru had walked from the station to Krasnoyarsk’s industrial sector. Alla, for her part, chose to distribute word about Maru using fliers and social media. Then the dog was discovered two and a half days later in an industrial district of Krasnoyarsk.

She had to trek through the Russian wilderness, ravaged by brown bears and wolves. It’s astonishing that she survived and that she has such a strong sense of place.

Alla stated: “Geographically, she had no reference point at all. She used to wander alone in the courtyard in the city and never went anyplace else”.

Maru was fatigued and lame, her paws and lips were all hurt. Before being recovered, she had fallen off a train embankment. Now Maru is having therapy to overcome her trauma with her original parents at the shelter in Novosibirsk.