While no animal should be abandoned ever, it seems to be extra mind-boggling that someone would choose to neglect a dog. Dogs are usually known for their outstanding loyalty and pure, heart-warming unconditional love… So, naturally, why would you want to go and break their hearts?

Some dogs have happy lives all the way through, others don’t get so lucky and struggle at some point but then are hopefully rescued. This one dog specifically though was abandoned and, for a long time, couldn’t foresee a happy ending.

The dog’s name is Maru and she was born and kept in kennels along the Trans-Siberian railroad in Russia. When she was just 5-months-old, she was adopted. Yay, right? Well, not so much.

It wasn’t long after when the owners suddenly changed their minds and decided to contact the woman who ran the kennel, Alla Morozova, and blames the whole situation on having bad allergies thanks to the bullmastiff.

“I never give up my puppies and when a dog is bought, it is stipulated that the owners should inform me if they do not need a dog anymore,” Morozova said. She soon agreed to take Maru back and they made the necessary arrangements to get her back to the kennel. The poor puppy was looking at a 125 mile-long commute across the Siberian taiga. Clearly, she didn’t want to do it though and broke the cabin door open before eventually leaping off the train and embarking on a dangerous journey. Presumably to find the owners who gave her up.

When Morozova realized Maru was gone, she rang the previous owners who gave her up to help her find the dog. But then Morozova was met with the shocking realization that the owners did not care at all.

They didn’t want to help. “That angered me,” she said. “The owners were not upset at all, like, well, the dog is lost and that’s all right. That was their answer. They gave the dog away and the load fell off their shoulders.”

Morozova was aware that Maru was probably out there not only facing physical danger but emotional instability. She figured that Maru probably leaped off the train in a fit of fear and was now running around aimlessly, clueless about where her owners went. The dog was probably also thinking that the family was looking for her too.

Two days later, Maru was found in the town where her previous owners lived, exhibiting an impressive sense of direction. “She had walked and run for two and a half days. Luckily neither bears ate her, nor wolves chewed her up,” Morozova said.

[/imgsrc] Maru in Krasnoyarsk

“I’m sure that she was looking for her house,” said Morozova. “Dogs are very attached to people. She did not run to Novosibirsk. She wanted to go back where she lived. It is surprising that she went the right way. Geographically, she had no reference points at all. And to make her away through the wild taiga, it is an amazing case.”

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Source: Animal Channel