The other day, veterinarian Ogün Öztürk was called to a small village in Turkey to attend to a client’s cow. He hadn’t planned on staying long.
But what began as just a routine visit ended as one Ogün won’t soon forget.
After wrapping up the job he’d come for, Ogün was about to leave the village. Before he did, however, something in the distance caught his eye.
There, trudging toward him on a path thick with snow, was a little girl. And she was not alone.
On her back was a pup.
Evidently, word had gotten around that a vet was in town — and that presented an opportunity which the girl, 8-year-old Cemre Su Türköz, refused to pass up.
Cemre’s dog, named Pamuk, had fallen sick. Desperate to get him help, she decided to carry Pamuk more than a mile from her home to the spot she’d heard that Ogün would be.
“When I first saw them, I was very surprised and touched,” Ogün told The Dodo. “She’d wrapped her dog up and brought him to me on her back.”