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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from howstuffworks.com.

Candace Gibson

Welcome to the How Stuff Works Podcast. I'm Editor Candace Gibson joined today by two of my best friends in the office, writer Josh Clark and editor, Chris Pollete.

Josh Clark

Hey there.

Chris Pollete

Hello.

Josh Clark

So, we're talking today about whether or not a dog is really a man's best friend.

Candace Gibson

Or a woman's.

Josh Clark

True. The short answer to this is yes of course. Illustrating this concept with a story of a Japanese dog, [inaudible] name -

Candace Gibson

Hichico.

Josh Clark

- Hichico.

Chris Pollete

Yeah, we're all big fans of Hichico here at howstuffworks.com. A little background around the office! Candace wept openly when she read this article. It was amazing. It was an amazing site and we now use it as a measuring stick to determine whether - well, how much humanity one of our co-workers has, and long story short, one of our poor co-workers is now considered a robot because she did not actually cry at this article. We're all big fans of Hichico. Somebody want to give some Hichico background on Hichico?

Candace Gibson

I'd love to give some background on Hichico. His nickname was Hachi. Essentially, he was a professor's dog at a Japanese university and they were very close. So close in fact that Hichico would walk the professor to work every day at the train station and then wait for him at the train station when he came home at night and this continued for, say, 10, 12 years, is that right?

Josh Clark

Yeah, I'd say about that long.

Candace Gibson

And then one day, very tragically, the professor actually died while he was at school and never returned, but Hichico, undaunted, waited for him at the train station. He continued to come every day and look for the professor even though he wasn't coming home.

And it got to the point that people started to notice that the professors dog clearly needed a human being to belong to so they gave the dog to another family but he routinely escaped from home and returned every day to the train station and in a very sad Victorian orphan kind of way, he contracted all sorts of diseases and -

Chris Pollete

Yeah, he got the mange. He became a little street-worn I guess you could possibly say, although they cleaned him up pretty well. He's now stuffed at the Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo. What they did - he's as white as whistle here.