...is a formerly stray dog.

Adopt!

A close friend goes there regularly for business and she said that dogs are on the streets everywhere. They're cruelly treated and seen as pests, so I'm not surprised that a little stray dog would follow someone who treated it with kindness and compassion.
I hope little Gobi manages the trip well and is reunited with her running companion soon!
Great story. It made my day.

I'm in tears thinking about it. A society that treats domestic animals as pests disgusts me. (We're not great, but at least we try.)

The Chinese think tortured animals taste better.

I hope they have at least some animal rights activists.

There is a horrible dog torturing festival in Yulin, where they torture and kill thousands of dogs each year for "fun." A Chinese activist shows up every year and rescues as many dogs as he can.

This may contain more information than most are ready for.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee_and_Dog_Meat_Festival

Edited to add that many animal rights organizations, including Humane Society International are working to end this horror. Hopefully pressure on the Chinese government will bring about change.

They would improve their image so much more by stopping this utterly disgusting event. I really don't know how people who are cruel to animals can live with themselves, whether it's tradition or not.

The same thing happens in Japan with the dolphin slaughter and other places that think it is great fun to torture and kill animals. The Chinese try to equate it to our slaughter houses, but there is one very big difference: we do not condone torture before killing. THEY DO.

We would not even have diplomatic relations with a country that would do that. They would be an international pariah.

I am just overjoyed that Gobi did not become somebody's dinner!

Looks awesome!

Maybe a few other forums as well.

But GD:2016 is for the 2016 election.

I love the story, of course--it's just that cluttering this forum with feel-good stories unrelated to the election seems counterproductive.

We go to the shelter and they decided if they like us and then they court us.

Our first was a puppy, she came running across the room before all her siblings.

We have three current dogs and many, many funeral urns to prove it.

My mom and dad are in another urn in the living room. It's been 2 years since our last beloved doggie died, but my grand kids still look at the urns and talk about her. The other dog passed when they were either not born, or too young to remember. I also still have the most recently deceased one as my phone screen saver.

And what an incredible little dog!!

It looks as if she'll be relocating to Edinburgh!! (The photos on Bring Gobi Home website make me tear up)

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/bring-gobi-home/

Thanks for posting!

I think this amazing little dog's story has legs, lol!

Thank you!