Tow truck driver, Martin Hall, Jr. and his family have been receiving lots of love and thanks from the community after helping an elderly man who had fallen and been injured.

But it’s not just Hall who helped the man out. One of his dogs did the job of “flagging” Hall down.

Hall had been heading out to a call in Mariposa, CA, near the town of Coulterville, when he came across the black dog sitting in the middle of the dirt road. A retractable leash was attached to the pup’s collar. Hall caught the whole encounter on video using his phone.

“I found this dog with a leash on it he won’t come to me,” said Hall.

Perplexed, but seemingly aware that something wasn’t quite right, the tow truck driver tried to feed the dog his peanut butter and jelly
sandwich and share his water but he had no luck.

“That sucks this dog doesn’t come to me, dogs likes me sometimes,” said Hall.

Hall was concerned. The dog was out in the middle of nowhere. But he noticed some clues littered in the nearby brush.

“There was a flashlight on the roadway and a trail here,” said Hall.

As Hall continued to investigate, the dog still wasn’t warming up. It lay back down in the middle of the road and wouldn’t budge an inch. It was about this time that Hall heard yelling coming from the nearby woods. He yelled back, then went to check things out.

A short walk from the road and he discovered an elderly man laying in the dirt. Another dog was by his side.

“What’s your dogs name?” Hall asked.

“Chico,” said the man.

Chico had been protecting his owner since the fall. Meanwhile, the other pup had wandered onto the roadway, seemingly waiting for a passerby who might be able to help. The dogs’ owner had fallen down an embankment and broken a hip. He had been lying in the brush for 10 hours before Hall happened upon them all. It was pure luck, too, as Hall had only happened down that particular road by accident.

Help was called. The man was rescued. And while Hall was certainly instrumental in making sure that happened, it was the loyalty of a dog who refused to budge that prompted the action.

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Most dog lovers know the story of Hachiko, the Japanese akita who waited every day at the train station for his owner, who had passed away, to come home. A statue of the dog, so famed for his loyalty, was placed at the Shibuya Station in Tokyo back in 1934.

A dog’s love and loyalty is forever. And Hachiko is not the only such pup to exhibit this wonderful canine trait.

This month, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, an unnamed dog reportedly waited for his owner for four months after the 59-year-old man — who was homeless — was rushed there by ambulance after being stabbed. Lying near the door outside the Santa Casa de Novo Horizonte Hospital, politely rising each time someone came in or out, the pup stayed, waiting for his best friend, who had sadly passed following the incident.

A local resident who had come to the hospital last month took photos of the dog and posted them on Facebook. Cristine Sardella told animal news site The Dodo that after she posted his story, a local rescue came and brought him to a kennel in the hopes of finding a new home, but the dog escaped, fleeing the two miles back to the hospital to continue his vigil.

And so then fate stepped in, and one of the hospital employees came forward to adopt him.

Director Osvaldo Sobrinho told the Dodo, “He will have a very affectionate home with our employee,” the director said.

Now, with the new name of Champion, this loyal Brazilian pupper has found a forever home with 30-year-old Leticia Fatima Nawas Botoluci.