Chinese Hachiko Waits Outside for His Master from 9 to 5

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By Sumitra on March 1st, 2012



A while back, we did this story on OC about a dog that wouldn’t leave his master’s grave. So I wasn’t exactly surprised when I heard about Wang Cai, but the faithful dog certainly deserves a mention. After all, he has waited for his master outside a local bank, from 9 am to 5 pm, every single day for the past 4 years.



Wang Cai was a homeless dog found wandering on the streets of Chongqing, China, four years ago, when a kind soul decided to adopt him. Ever since, he has been accompanying his new owner to work every morning and waited outside patiently for the next 8 hours, only to return home in the evening. According to the dog’s master, the behavior perplexed him at first, since he didn’t really train Wang Cai to do anything of the sort. The owner suspects that the dog might be waiting for his previous master, but he has no issues with the strange behavior.

The locals, however, are fascinated with Wang Cai’s unwavering loyalty. He’s being hailed as the Chinese version of Hachiko, the world-famous Japanese dog that waited for his deceased owner for 13 long years outside the Shibuya Train Station, Tokyo. Although Hachiko died in 1935, his faithfulness is still remembered by many. A dog’s loyalty is truly an incredible thing.

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-hachiko-waits-outside-for-his-master-from-9-to-5.html

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1. Dogs are very faithful and loyal.

When I was in first grade, my Dad found a dog out in the woods and brought him home. He became my dog and I named him Foxy since he looked a little like a fox.

Foxy accompanied me to the street crossing across from the elementary school every day. He'd go off and do stuff around the neighborhood, but just before we were let out for the day, Foxy would go back to the crossing and wait for me. No one ever tried to teach him to do this, it was his idea and he was faithful about it. The school crossing guard told my Mom that she stopped wearing her watch since Foxy kept the time better than it did!

The day I got out of school and Foxy wasn't there, I knew something was wrong. Foxy had been bitten by a water moccasin and died despite all the vet could do. That Mom was willing to take him to the vet to try to save him was something - we didn't have much money for US to go to the doctor, much less an animal. But she knew my heart would be broken, so she did what she could.

I didn't have another childhood dog - it just wouldn't have been the same.