Watch the video of the grieving dog in the video below.

Video credit: CGTN

We are used to seeing dogs as faithful companions who will stick by us through thick and thin. Sometimes, these dogs display heartwarming loyalty even if they’ve been treated badly by others.

And these feelings apparently live on despite the death of their owners. Behavioral scientists tend to agree that pets can and do experience feelings of loneliness, sadness, and can even become inconsolable.

Some experts theorize that in case of the death of the owner, pets can’t comprehend the fact that the separation is permanent, which is why they stubbornly refuse to leave even the gravesite of their already deceased owner.

This does seem to be the case for Deta, a 5-year-old Chihuahua mix whose 86-year-old owner had died just a few months prior.

A video that was taken by Theresa Morini, the woman’s daughter and who, along with her husband, is Deta’s new owner, shows the depths of Deta’s love for the old woman as they visit her in the cemetery.

Morini said, “Deta and my mother were inseparable. Wherever my mother went, Deta followed.”

She recalled that when her mother was in an Albany, New York hospital to be treated for congestive heart failure, Deta was inconsolable at being separated from her beloved owner.

That’s why the family decided to secretly smuggle the pooch into the old woman’s hospital room.

Since the passing of Morini’s mom, she and her husband Mike regularly visit the cemetery in nearby Amsterdam City with Deta. And during those visits, the dog usually refuses to leave.

Deta knows where the old woman is buried because she just rushes past the other graves and curls up at the gravestone that marks the final resting place of the woman she always adored.

Whenever it’s time to go, Morini keeps calling Deta but she often refuses to listen. Sometimes, she’ll reluctantly get up but after only a few paces, she’ll rush back to the woman’s grave.

The sight is enough to make Morini cry and she often wonders, “Is my mother’s spirit still here?”

While there’s no way to be certain, she concedes that “it does bring me comfort, and I think it brings [Deta] comfort too.”

 

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