When it comes to the bond between a man and his dog, nothing is impossible.
James Wathen is a 73-year-old man from Kentucky, who was hospitalized more than a month ago. The hospital’s staff members said that it was not long before his condition dramatically worsened and he quit eating.
That's when they realized the man just missed his dog, a one-eyed chihuahua named Bubba, who'd been turned over to the Knox-Whitley Animal Shelter.
Meanwhile, the president of the animal shelter Mary-Ann Smyth said that the dog seems to miss his owner too, as “he quit eating a couple of weeks after he was admitted to the shelter.”
In a bid to reunite the man with his dog, and despite a hospital rule barring animal visits, staffers at Kentucky's Baptist Health Corbin tracked down Bubba to reunite him with James.
"We pulled out all the stops and found the dog," Kimberly Probus, the chief nursing officer at the hospital, told WYKT.
Last Saturday, the two were finally reunited, and both have made "a complete turnaround," Smyth told Today.com.
"When Bubba was handed to James he started to cry and then Bubba started to snuggle James," the animal shelter added in a Facebook post, "it makes you realize that animals are not just pets, they are loved ones."
We surely agree with that!