For several years, a sad story about a devoted animal diverges over the network, which supposedly lives in a hole dug right in the grave of the recently deceased owner. We checked whether such publications are true.
September 4, 2024 on VKontakte in public "Rhymes and Panchi"(More than 5700 likes at 326,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) posted a picture, accompanying it with a signature:" The dog dug a hole in the grave of its owner, who recently died to be next to the person whom she loves the most. " Moreover, there are many readers in the comments doubted in the authenticity of the picture, Name His work of neural networks. A similar record appeared in the same name Telegram channel (168,000 views).
This story has been spreading in Runet for more than nine years. So, on the Picabu website the same picture with tagged #fidelity laid out Back in May 2015. The post received more than 3100 pluses, and the signature for the photo read: "The dog is the only animal that loves you more than yourself." Similar publications are popular in English. For example, in July 2015, similar fast At Facebook* received 254,000 likes and 601,000 reposts.
Back in 2019, this story Turned Attention is a factor from the Australian version of the AFP agency. With the help of a reverse search for the virus image, they found that a photograph, usually accompanying viral posts, was Published April 21, 2015 on Facebook on the Tierjammer page - the German public organization for animal salvation. Moreover, according to site, its activity is mainly related to Serbia.
The picture distributed through social networks is a trimmed version of one of the seven photos in album, which is translated from German is called the "dog family under the grave." The description told about the collection of money to help animals. The request to send a donation was accompanied by the following text:
"Sometimes I really want to cry and cover up with a blanket with your head ... These photos are very symbolic, they reflect the suffering and troubles of street animals in Serbia. Abandoned, abandoned, hungry and pregnant, this dog had no choice but to dig a hole in the ground under the tombstone and give birth to his kids there. This is the only protection against the cold at night and a very warm sun in the afternoon. Rain floods the hole, and the mother also has nothing to eat there. If it is found, everything will be over for her children ..."
On the same day in another post, Tierjammer Group Published The video on which the puppies are captured and their mother crawled out of the pit.
However, a day earlier, April 20, 2015, similar photos of the same animals shot near the same grave stone, Placed On his Facebook page, a user from Serbia Spring Mikhailoski. Her album has 280 photos and is called “Mom and four puppies from the cemetery”, the last pictures were published there in September 2016. According to the description, one of the puppies called Boomer was very ill, but later recovered. In addition to numerous photos of the animals themselves, the Mikhailovsky page also posted Documents About visits to the veterinarian, passport Pets and Inquiries About vaccination.
Based on this information, the factor from AFP concluded that the approval that was distributed that the dog dug a hole in order to be closer to its deceased owner, falsely, since the homeless animal climbed into the hole for the birth of puppies.
However, back in the fall of 2016, the details of this story spread on the network. For example, on the website of the Estonian Russian -speaking entertainment portal Limon It is published under the heading: “This dog lived on the grave of the owner ... Everyone thought that she was just missing, but the truth was touched by people to tears!” According to this version, Mikhailoski did not find animals herself, but saw a photo in social networks and decided to find where they live. “The story of this dog has long circled the entire Internet. When her owner died, she went to his grave, dug a hole and stayed there. She was very mourned and missed her friend. But the relatives of the deceased literally could not do anything with her, she stubbornly ran away and returned to the grave. When enough time has passed, they have long forgotten about the devoted animal. But once a woman named Spring came across this picture on the network and decided to go to check the animal. When she came to the cemetery, the dog was still lying there - in the pit. But she tried to hide something desperately! Taking a closer look, the woman saw puppies! ” - It was said on the site Mur.tv. At the same time, Limon clarifiesthat the girl fed dogs in the cemetery for two weeks and only then took them to her. In a similar form, the story is stated on the website of the Russian -language version of the Latvian edition Tvnet And "YaPlakal".
As mentioned above, Mikhailoski, judging by her publications, found dogs even before the disassembled photo spread on the network. Information that the animals were taken from the cemetery only two weeks later, is also doubtful, since the first pictures from the grave where they lived, appeared April 20, and two days later were published Photos with dogs in the aviary.
Initially, the viral picture was published in not the highest resolution, and in the process of its distribution, the quality became only worse. Apparently, to restore the quality of the picture, the authors of the public "Rhyme and Panchi" took advantage of one of the programs for scaling, as a result of which the letters on the tombstones were distorted. Probably, for this reason, some subscribers decided that the viral picture was created using artificial intelligence. In addition, often the authors of such posts strongly cut off the original image, which is why part of the information from the tombstone disappears.
“Tested” studied other pictures of that grave and found out: it was said that the monument was erected to a man named Kuzman Bachevsky his “son -in -law and daughter with children”. The stoves also indicate the years of the life of the deceased: 1904–1991. That is, from the moment of his death to the moment when the dog was discovered on the grave, about a quarter century has passed, which average The life expectancy of dogs is this size. It turns out that the dog, tearing the pit in the grave, could not be a pitomitsa buried.
Thus, the distributed photo of a dog sitting in a pit under a tombstone is genuine, and not created by artificial intelligence. However, the homeless animal came to the grave and dug a hole not in order to be closer to her deceased owner, whom she most likely never had. The dog just found a place for the birth of puppies.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
Photo on the cover: @tierschutzverein.tierjammer (Facebook)
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