Boji may be a stray dog, but he is also a well-behaved and clever dog, traveling only by public transport.
We have seen many dogs that copy human behaviors, but Boji It has left us with our mouths open.
It is the name that they have given a Turkish stray dog that has gone viral because every day he takes the subway, the tram, the ferry, and sometimes the train, to get around all of Istanbul.
Boji has become so famous that has his own social media accounts on Instagram and Twitter, where people upload photos they take of him when they meet him on public transport. It has even been on CNN:
– Boji (@boji_ist) October 8, 2021
As you can see in the video, although Boji is a stray dog, he is well cared for, and has undergone several veterinary checks. This is because the municipal authorities have taken care of it.
It is also easily observed that they have put a locator in his ear, to check where it moves. And they have been speechless with the results.
In the same day Boji has made 29 stops, taken different types of public transport: subway, tram, ferry, train…
On average every day he travels between 27 and 30 kilometers… without taking almost a step …
Boji not only uses public transport, but he knows the courtesy rules: he lets all the passengers out before he enters.
He has also been seen waiting by the bus stop in good weather, and sheltering inside when it rains.
How can this extraordinary behavior be explained?
They say that dogs end up looking like their owners, and it is the only explanation that we can find for this behavior never seen before.
Veterinarians have discovered that he is a cross between Sivas Kangal and Sheepdog, and that he is spayed, so before he was a stray dog, he had an owner.
This person probably used public transport a lot, and Boji learned how to use it to get around Istanbul.
A curious story that helps us to verify the learning capacity of the human beings best friend.