Burqa-clad Hesti Sutrisno, who used to feed the stray cats outside her home in South Tangerang every day, found a hungry stray dog among them one day in 2015.
The dog, which her husband later named John, had come from a nearby abandoned house and occasionally scared children who played in the streets.
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