Covid-19: Dog stranded in UAE flies home for owner’s wedding

Covid-19: Dog stranded in UAE flies home for owner’s wedding

Man's best friend finds its way home, eventually. Smurf, a seven-year-old Yorkshire Terrier, travelled 4,000km from Dubai into the arms of its owner in India. The pet dog was left behind at the height of the Covid-19 triggered restrictions after his owner had to travel back home in a repatriation flight early June.

“At that time, flights to India were only for emergency repatriations. No airline was accepting pets,” said his owner Malavika Kurian, who left Smurf under her aunt's care in Dubai.

On Wednesday, after a four-month-long separation, Smurf was finally reunited with his family in Kottayam, Kerala. His journey included a 12-hour road trip. The pet was put on an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi to Bengaluru