An adorable pub dog is proving a hit with locals after being adopted by a kind-hearted landlord when his owner died in a car cash.<br /><br />Two-year-old Shih Tzu Rex dashed into a busy bar after surviving a car accident which sadly killed his original owner last September. <br /><br />Regulars at The Leaping Wolf in Wolverhampton were left startled when the lost pooch ran into the pub during a football match.<br /><br />Manager Dan Morris, 33, caught the runaway hound and took him to the vets to see if he was OK and where he needed to be returned to.<br /><br />But he was left shocked after being told by the vets that Rex's owner had passed away and he had nowhere else to go. <br /><br />Refusing to let the poor pup find his own way, Dan saved Rex by adopting him and he has been living at the pub ever since.