{"id":76798,"date":"2026-03-24T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/group-seven-dogs-missing-china-walk-17km-home"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:54:28","slug":"group-of-dogs-that-went-missing-in-china-go-viral-after-walking-17km-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76798","title":{"rendered":"Group of dogs that went missing in China go viral after walking 17km home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video shows seven dogs including a golden retriever, Labrador, German shepherd and Pekinese, being led by a corgi<\/p>\n<p>A group of seven dogs that went missing in <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/search?q=China+and+the+Guardian&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enAU1128AU1128&amp;oq=China+and+the+Guardian&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgcIARAAGIAEMgcIAhAAGIAEMgcIAxAAGIAEMgcIBBAAGIAEMgYIBRBFGDwyBggGEEUYPDIGCAcQRRg80gEIMjgwNGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">China<\/a> have gone viral after a video emerged of them walking more than 17km back home to their village, reuniting with owners who had been searching for them for days.<\/p>\n<p>The video, first posted online on 15 March, shows the dogs \u2013 including a golden retriever, labrador, German shepherd and Pekinese \u2013 walking along the highway in Changchun, the capital of China\u2019s north-east Jilin province, where temperatures are dropping below 0C overnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/group-seven-dogs-missing-china-walk-17km-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video shows seven dogs including a golden retriever, Labrador, German shepherd and Pekinese, being led by a corgiA group of seven dogs that went missing in China have gone viral after a video emerged of them walking more than 17km back home to their vi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76799,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76798\/revisions\/76799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}