12 Throat-Grossing Stories of Animals’ Love for Their Owners

Although the feelings of animals have been studied for centuries, it doesn’t take a scientist to know that some are capable of conceiving strong affective bonds towards human beings. Many of us who have been lucky enough to have a pet can safely say that they love us, and many guarantee that they would give their lives for their owners.

today, in awesome.clubwe decided to be sentimental, so we prepared for you 12 exciting, funny, surprising and even heroic stories starring animals that gave the world a lesson in loyalty, thanks to the love for their owners.

In the region of Montagna, Italy, lives Toldo, a cat whose history of fidelity and love makes ridiculous the popular belief that cats are insensitive.

Since his owner Renzo Lozelli died in 2011, Toldo hasn’t stopped visiting his grave every day, taking sticks, leaves and even plastic cups as a gift.

It was obvious that the most famous akita of all time would appear on this list. Hachiko has inspired film and literature, and is an icon of contemporary culture thanks to its moving story in the 1920s. The dog lived alongside a university professor named Hidesamuro Ueno in Tokyo, Japan.

Locals say that Hachiko would go to Shibuya train station every night to greet the teacher when he came home from work. In 1925, Ueno passed away leaving only his faithful akita. Since then, for 11 years, the dog has not stopped going to the station every night to wait for its owner. There, he kept looking at the cars in the hope that his friend would get out of one of them.

One of Ueno’s students found out what was going on and decided to publish the moving story, which quickly became famous nationally and internationally. When Hachiko died nine years later, a statue was erected at the train station in honor of her loyalty.

Hachiko not only conquered the world with the memory of his love, he helped save his breed, as before this dog became known there were only 30 Akitas in all of Japan.

In the late 1980s, in Cádiz, Spain, an unnamed man lived alone with his dog named Canelo. As the gentleman suffered from kidney problems, he could often be seen with his pet on the way to the Puerta de Mar Hospital for hemodialysis.

Upon arrival, the patient went in to receive the treatment, while Canelo stayed at the doors of the place waiting for them to return home together. One day, the man suffered complications and died in hospital. From that day on, the dog waited 12 years at the doors, resisting anyone who tried to move him.

In 2002, Canelo was killed by a car near the hospital. However, his unconditional love was immortalized by the Roma people in a monument and a street was named in his honor.

David decided to take Harry, his African gray parrot, to the vet for a very strange reason. Every time he came home from work, when he greeted him, the bird would vomit on him. The expert’s diagnosis was surprising, as the bird was not sick, but in love.

“These birds, when they go to court the female, vomit the seeds of their harvest and offer them, it’s as if they say I love you in their language”, explained David Perpiñán, a veterinarian at the Zoological Hospital of Badalona in Barcelona, ​​in an interview with the BBC.

The vet recommended David to find a girlfriend for Harry, a solution that lessened the problem. However, they are still best friends.

Christian is the name of a lion that was adopted in 1969 by Australians John Rendall and Anthony Burke in London, England. A local zoo owner sold him to youngsters for 250 guineas (ancient gold coin, used in the UK) because he was a difficult animal to care for.

Rendall and Burke kept him in their apartment, where they fed him, played with him and made him very happy. However, as the feline grew, they had to find a new home because he got too big. Christian lived in a furniture store and even in a city cemetery.

The owners realized it would be best for him to stay in his natural habitat, so they decided to ask George Adamson, a famous Kenyan conservationist, for help, who agreed to give Christian a place in Kenya’s Kora National Park.

In 1971, after learning that the lion’s reinsertion into the wild had been a success, Rendall and Burke decided to travel to Kenya to visit their friend. The feline’s reaction to being reunited with his adoptive parents was documented in a video and surprised the whole world, as, after a brief moment of caution, he jumped for joy to hug those who cared so much for him.

The case went around the world and resulted in the documentary Christian the Lion, produced by World’s End.

On March 21, 2018, Javier Mercado, a 16-year-old boy, and Rex, his German Shepherd, were at their home in Washington, United States. The two friends watched TV until they heard strange noises downstairs; so Rex decided to go investigate.

The teenager leaned out the window and noticed strange vehicles parked outside. He also heard screams from strangers exclaiming “The dog bit me!”, “Get the dog”.

Rex, bloodied, climbed to the second floor to be with the boy. Together they entered the closet with a phone to call 911. When the delinquents went up to the room with guns and discovered the hiding place, the seriously injured animal jumped to save its owner, receiving four shots, but managing to attack the intruders.

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. The authorities arrived, captured the criminals, and most importantly, Rex survived after receiving veterinary care and multiple surgeries. Without a doubt, a great story of friendship and courage.

The name of the smartest yaco parrot in the world is the acronym for Avian Learning Experiment, because it was the subject of an experiment that lasted 30 years. It was initially carried out in 1976 by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard University, together with Brandeis University in the United States.

Irene bought Alex from a pet store and took care of him from a very young age in order to check the animal’s intelligence levels. The results were so surprising that they changed the opinion of the scientific community at the time, which claimed that these birds could only say words by imitation.

Alex not only had the intelligence of a 5 year old boy and a wide vocabulary, he also had a big heart and loved his teacher Irene above all things. He didn’t separate from her during the sessions and always called her or said “I love you”, “don’t go”.

Alex died one night in his cage with no apparent cause at age 30 (young for his species who usually live to be 50 or more). Pepperberg says that the night he died, when they said goodbye to go to sleep, Alex said his last words to him: I love you, be good.” Pepperberg wrote a book called Alex and Me in which he recounts his experiences with the bird. .

On February 14, 2018, Juan Suazo and his dog Batallón were trapped in a fire at their home in Copiulemu, Chile.

The Golden Golden Retriever guided its 71-year-old owner to a safe exit after helping him escape a window he had been trapped in, saving him from certain death. Both survived, enjoy good health and remain the best of friends.

Suazo said in an interview with the “24 Horas” channel that in 2010, Batallón was his partner during the earthquake that occurred in the country, an occasion that put the animal’s eyes in danger, so he invested all his money and time to carry out a long treatment that would save his eyesight. Undoubtedly, Batallón and Juan will be together for life.

Michele Scarponi, champion cyclist of the Tour of the Alps in 2011, lived with his macaw Frankje, in Fillotrano, Italy. Both were inseparable.

Frankje accompanied Scarponi in his greatest passion: riding a bicycle. As the athlete trained on the tracks near his home, the bird climbed onto the handlebars or flew close to him, following him on the way. Sometimes, when he felt tired, he would land on one of the road signs to watch his owner pass.

On April 22, 2017, Scarponi died when he was hit by a van while training on the highway, leaving a void in the cycling world and immense pain in the bluebird’s heart. From that moment on, Frankje lands every day on the sign of the place he visited so much with his owner, hoping to see him pass and return home together.

The cyclist, who died at the age of 37, was buried in his favorite uniform, which had the colors of Frankje’s beautiful plumage.

Bobby was a puppy who lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his owner, police officer John Gray. He was known and loved by all his neighbors because he knew how to do all kinds of tricks and was very smart.

Sadly, John died on February 15, 1858 of tuberculosis, leaving his furry friend alone and very sad. Bobby attended the funeral and stayed by his owner’s side the entire time until he was buried; from then on, the dog decided to stay and live in the cemetery to guard the grave of the person he loved most.

In Moscow, Russia, a stray cat saved an abandoned baby near a dumpster. The animal shared its warmth with the week-old child for several hours until a lady from a nearby building found the two in the middle of the snow.

According to news broadcast by Russian channel Zvezda in January 2015, Masha (as neighbors called her) did not want to leave the baby when lifeguards arrived, offering resistance as they tried to get him out; she even chased the ambulance.

Today, Masha and her adopted human baby live together with a family that loves them. Without a doubt, a beautiful maternal story with a happy ending.

On September 11, 2001, Colombian engineer Omar Eduardo Rivera worked in his office with his labrador Salty, on the 71st floor of the first tower of the iconic Twin Towers.

At 8:45 am, Rivera heard a rumbling sound and noticed that the building began to shake: a plane had just hit the tower. Panic invaded all who were trapped in that 417 meter hell. The man, who was blind, took…