Image copyright Reuters Image caption The organisation that rescued Zsazsa said the Havanese was now wagging her tail again 
 
 A dog had apparently been faithfully lying beside the body of its deceased owner for several weeks when the pair were discovered in a flat in Hungary. 
 
 The nine-year-old Havanese breed, called Zsazsa, was found in a Budapest apartment on Wednesday. 
 
 She was severely malnourished when found, animal protection officials in Budapest said. 
 
 Zsazsa's owner, a woman in her sixties, appeared to have died of natural causes. 
 
 Neighbours called the police after becoming concerned that the elderly woman had not been seen for several weeks, Reuters reported. 
 
 Police entered the apartment and found the dog lying next to its owner. 
 
 Rescuers say that the dog had some dried food, but she would have died if she hadn't been found. 
 
 Zsazsa was weak, unable to stand, and had to be dragged away from her dead owner, they said. 
 
 The organisation that rescued her said that she was now wagging her tail once again. ||||| BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A dog has been rescued by animal protection services in Hungary after being found lying alongside the body of her mistress who died weeks before. 
 
 A 9-year-old Havanese dog called Zsazsa is seen after being rescued by animal protection services after being found lying alongside the body of her owner who had died weeks earlier, in Budapest, Hungary January 5, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo 
 
 The 9-year-old Havanese, called Zsazsa, was in a severely dehydrated state when she was found in a Budapest apartment on Wednesday but was now recovering, Gabor Pataki, head of the animal rescue group Allatmento Liga, said on Friday. 
 
 The dog had some dry feed to eat, but doctors said she would have died within a couple of days if she had not been found, Pataki said, adding that the owner must have died weeks before. 
 
 Police opened up the flat after neighbors reported that the elderly owner had not been seen for some time. 
 
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 “The dog was lying next to the dead body, and was so weak that she could not stand up. We had to drag her away,” Pataki said. He said many dogs would have died after such a trauma. 
 
 “But yesterday she was on her feet again and even wagged her tail.” 
 
 Police said the 66-year old woman appeared to have died of natural causes.
– A woman was found dead in her home in Budapest on Wednesday, having apparently died of natural causes weeks earlier, the BBC reports. Her dog hadn't left her side. “The dog was lying next to the dead body, and was so weak that she could not stand up," Gabor Pataki tells Reuters. "We had to drag her away." Pataki is the head of animal rescue group Allatmento Liga, which has taken in Zsazsa, a 9-year-old Havanese. Neighbors called police this week after not seeing Zsazsa's 66-year-old owner for several weeks. When police entered the woman's home, they found Zsazsa extremely malnourished and dehydrated. Doctors say she would have died within days had she not been found. Now the lucky dog is recovering from her ordeal. "Yesterday she was on her feet again and even wagged her tail," Pataki says.