A Chinese pensioner has been reunited with his pet dog - a month after he left it in his car and forgot where he parked it.

Wang Zujun, 80, had left his three-wheeler to be repaired - but then couldn't remember the name or address of the garage.

The garage owner left it parked outside a shopping centre in Chengdu after Wang never turned up to reclaim his car.

"I couldn't take care of it forever, and it took up a lot of space at my shop," he said.

Local traders kept the dog alive by feeding it scraps of food through a gap in the window of the vehicle, reports the Sichuan News Network.

Eventually, as the smell from the parked vehicle got worse and worse, they smashed the lock to try to free the trapped animal.

But the dog only cowered inside - so the rescuers instead took documents from the car which gave them Wang's name and address.

The pensioner told them he had spent the last month scouring the city for the car - and his beloved dog - but had been looking in the wrong direction.

"Each morning, I would go out and look for them. The tricycle is nothing to me, but my dogs are my only companions," he said.

When Wang was finally led to his car, the dog started barking wildly and, at the sound of his master's voice, jumped from the vehicle into his arms.

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