I always feel a certain reluctance to share videos like this. I worry it seems as though I’m overlooking or discounting the vast human suffering currently going on in Japan.
But when I examine my own feelings about what’s going on here, I think what evokes the pathos is not simply the “awww” factor of one animal looking out for another. Our relationship with companion animals is simple and uncomplicated – and because of this, it can evoke the best part of our own humanity. I think it can also give us something to aspire to – remaining loyal to others even in the face of great hardship. I’m sure there are countless people in Japan who have done and continue to do exactly that.
From what I’ve read, both dogs were rescued subsequent to this video being taken and are in shelters.
And please donate what you can to Doctors Without Borders. They’re at work in Japan and throughout the world, providing urgently needed care and supplies to victims of natural disasters and wars.
Animal is living being too…for Japanese, from whom many are buddhists, life of dog is also worthy to save…and I agree with them. Rescue animals shows deep humanitarism, compashion and goodness of heart which people, who survived eartquake and tsunami and lost their loved ones, can still keep in their hearts. That is why I admire Japanese that much.