The search started on August 15 and continued for nine days, with chances and hopes of finding Gobi growing smaller every day. Leonard did not hesitate and flew to China to look for his friend. The love grew so big that Leonard decided to set up a crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs for bringing the dog he named Gobi back with him to Scotland, where Leonard resides.īut during the first period of quarantine in the city of Urumqi, Gobi unexpectedly run away and went missing. The two became inseparable after running for days on end together. The stray dog joined the runner on his run after he hung around the runners’ camp on the first day of the march. Australian marathon runner Dion Leonard met the stray dog at the start of the Gobi March, a 250-kilometer event across the Gobi Desert in China. The story of Dion and Gobi will now be turned into a book, including a version for children.Īll of Twitter, Facebook and Weibo was rooting for little dog Gobi in the summer of 2016. Gobi became the most famous dog of the summer of 2016 when marathon runner Dion Leonard moved heaven and earth to find the stray dog who had joined him on his marathon journey.
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