Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
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This is the touching moment a young dog was filmed shepherding its elderly owner down the road and even seems to be actively pushing the OAP’s wheelchair to hurry him along.
Footage of the loyal pooch – an 11-month old called Magnus – and its owner was recorded in the south-central Kazakhstani city of Taraz by an onlooker named as Fidana Durusova and posted onto social media.
The video shows the dog apparently keen to keep the chair going as if he was herding it along, at one point crawling under the chair in a bid to push one of the axels with its back as its owner operates the chair with two hand levers.
Durusova said that she tried offering money and food to the elderly man in the wheelchair, identified as Anatoly Derbenev, 70.
Reportedly she was not the first person to offer the OAP help but he prefers doing everything by himself, with a little help from his dog called Magnus who he described as his “only family”.
The pooch had previously been injured after it was hit by a bus, but has recovered and returned to helping its owner get around the city.
Durusova said: “It turns out that the dog has already been run over by a bus but despite its fear, Magnus continues staying with its owner on the street full of cars, helping him as much as it can.”
OAP Derbenev says that Magnus started helping him when the pooch was only four months old and he stressed that the dog is his only family member.
Netizen ‘Bolatkhankhan’ said: “Dogs are real friends, we should never forget about them.”
Another one ‘Ya_ nastoyashiy’ added: “Dogs are unable to betray anyone. They stay loyal no matter what.”
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