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Thanks
to a successful crowd-funding campaign, Dion Leonard, an extreme marathon
runner is adopting a stray pup (流浪狗) he met
while running a 155-mile race in the Gobi desert in China. The funds (基金) that were raised will help cover medical expenses so that the dog
can be transported from China to Leonard's home of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The
female dog, who Leonard appropriately named Gobi, joined Leonard on the second
day of the annual 4 Deserts Race Series and ran side-by-side with him for 77
miles. Leonard noticed Gobi running with 101 runners during the first day, but
on the second day, Gobi was on the start line, looking up at him. "This
was the first contact I had with her and as I ran off the line I noticed her by
my side," he said. "I didn't speak much to her that day, but at the
finish line she followed me into the tent and we slept next to each other. That
was it then."
Leonard
shared his sleeping space, water and food with his small companion during the
race. He even lent her a hand when needed. "I carried her across rivers
that she could not cross on her own," he wrote on his Crowdfunder page.
After
the race, it was clear to Leonard that he had developed a special bond with the
pup and started researching ways to get Gobi to the UK. He learned that it
would take four months for Gobi to be medically checked and cleared for entry,
all of which will cost $6,560 USD, an amount that has been surpassed (超过) due to a successful Crowdfunder campaign that raised $13,330 USD.