A stray dog won the heart of an extreme marathon runner, after tagging along while he raced across the Gobi desert in China.(Photo: Screenshot)
A stray dog won the heart of an extreme marathon runner, after tagging along while he raced across the Gobi desert in China.
Extreme marathon runner<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dion Leonard noticed the small stray dog on the first day of the 4 Deserts Race Series,
the Independent reported. Leonard thought the dog would drop away from the runners, but instead, on day two of the weeklong race, he noticed the small dog was running beside him.
"I didn't speak much to her that day thinking she wouldn't stay with me, but at the finish line she followed me into the tent, and we slept next to each other,” he told the
Independent. “That was it then."
He named her Gobi.
The duo became inseparable during the race, and Leonard told the
Independent it was hard leaving<span style="color: Red;">*</span>China for his home in Edinburgh, Scotland, without her.
To raise funds for Gobi<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to travel to Scotland,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Leonard set
up a crowdfunding page with the goal of raising 5,000 British pounds.
As of Friday, the page<span style="color: Red;">*</span>raised over 12,000 British pounds.
Leonard<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
told<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Inside Edition<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he hired people to weed through the "red tape" involved with getting approval for an animal to travel to another country.
He told
Inside Edition, he hopes<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gobi will be in Scotland by Christmas.
In the meantime, she’s living with one of the race organizers in China.
"I can’t wait until she comes,” he told
Inside Edition.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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