They say cats have nine lives, but dogs? With the help of the Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support, dogs may soon get nine lives too.
This is the miraculous story of Maruko, a dog who survived under the rubble of her house in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, for 11 days with no food or water after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But that was just the beginning of a long, hard six-month journey for this dog who still had a few spare lives left in her. Or some damn good canine karma.
After being taken out from under her collapsed home, the confused and rankled canis familiaris was taken to the local pound (hokenjo), where dogs are kept for five days before they're destroyed. At the pound, Maruko sought revenge on an unfair world by trying to bite everyone who laid a hand on her. She growled in her sleep. This was one putrid pooch.