Dog makes daily visit to Mexico coal mine where his owner was killed in tragic ...

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Almost three weeks after the explosion that killed seven coal miners, one of the victim's loyal pets is still coming to visit his late owner every day.

Gonzalo Cruz, 53, adopted mutt Cuchufleto six months ago and every day since he joined the family, the dog would accompany Cruz on the half-mile morning walk to the northeast Mexico coal mine in Múzquiz, Coahuila.

'He would leave with my husband at 6:30 am, Cruz's widow Sandra Briseño said. 'He even went inside with my husband to the mine. He did not care that it was dark. There he was. Sometimes he would go out and wait for him outside,' she said. 

The dog would return back to the Cruz' home while he went to work but would sometimes pop back on his own if he noticed his owner was running late. 

But everything changed on June 4, when the mine suffered a collapse, killing seven miners, including Cruz.  

Briseño told television station