Blackie, a two-year-old Bhutia dog, has not left his spot outside the tunnel at the Tapovan hydel project site for three days.

“We would give him food, a sack to sleep on when we worked. Blackie would be around during the day and would leave in the evening when we did,” said Rajinder Kumar, who had a narrow escape on Sunday when the flooded Rishiganga blocked the tunnel, trapping 34 workers of the NTPC’s Tapovan-Vishnugad hydropower project inside, stated a report in The Times of India.