A LOYAL dog in India refused to leave a graveside for two weeks in a remarkable display of devotion after the death of his teenage owner, the Daily Mail reported.

    After Bhaskar Shri, 18, died in a car accident, his dog Tommy went without food and water for 15 baking days and freezing nights guarding his grave in Chennai, southern India, according to the report.

    The young construction worker had adopted the dog five years ago and the two quickly became inseparable.

    When Bhaskar was killed in a tragic road collision, the dog refused to leave him.

    Dawn Williams, an animal rescue officer working with the nonprofit Blue Cross of India, finally rescued the famished dog after he endured more than a fortnight in the open.

    She said: “I first spotted the brown dog sitting on a fresh grave one evening as I happen to walk past in the first week of August, but at the time I didn’t think anything of it,” the Daily Mail reported.

    “But on Aug. 13 I was in the area again while on a different rescue mission and saw him again. He was sitting in the same spot in the same position.

    “It looked like he hadn’t moved for weeks.”

    The dog seemed troubled, even apparently having tears in his eyes as she approached him, Williams said.

    “I could see he was in a disturbed condition. He was famished and I’m certain he had tears in his eyes,” she said.

    “I gave him water and biscuits but he refused to move. Then, with my teammates, I walked around the area and asked locals if they knew the dog.

    “They told me the dog was called Tommy and he was guarding his owner’s grave.”

    (SD-Agencies)