Candy Stars

On January 14, 68-year-old Cemal Senturk suffered a brain embolism and was taken by an ambulance to the hospital in Trabzon, Turkey. Shortly after the ambulance arrived, Cemal’s little white dog, Boncuk showed up. She waited patiently outside the hospital doors as patients and healthcare workers came and went. Sometimes she would nap in the sunshine. Occasionally she’d accept a little food from the hospital staff. From time to time, Cemal would call her name from his hospital bed and Boncuk would answer with a bark. When Cemal was discharged a week later, Boncuk was still waiting for him. "Everybody noticed the relationship between the dog and her owner,” said Fuat Ugur, the hospital’s communications director. “It makes everybody happy."