In June 2020, the podcast This is Love covered Dion and Gobi's story in their episode, 'Gobi.' The young adult edition book won the 2017 New York City Big Book Award. A chapter book edition for young adults and a children's picture book was also released in 2017. The main edition version is now available in 23 languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Japanese, German, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Korean, French, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovene, Russian, Serbian and Romanian. This was followed by a paperback version later released in February 2018 also reaching The Sunday Times Bestseller List.

The hardback version was released in the UK, Australia and New Zealand on June 13, 2017, reaching The Sunday Times Bestseller List. The paperback version was officially launched in the US on June 1, 2017, and went onto become a New York Times Bestseller at number 3. The book titled Finding Gobi, received favourable high praise in Publishers Weekly and other reviews. In October 2016, HarperCollins Publishers announced the expected publication of a trilogy of books about Gobi's and Leonard's journey together. Leonard has now brought Gobi home to Edinburgh after the four month quarantine in Beijing required by UK law for unregistered strays was completed by January 5, 2017. Leonard used some of the crowd funding money to fly Gobi to Beijing for an operation on her hip, from which she recovered. Gobi had a deep gash on her head and was limping, but was otherwise unharmed. With a search party made up of volunteers, Leonard combed the city with reward flyers and social media until the dog was found. While Leonard was in Edinburgh Gobi went missing, so Leonard immediately flew back to Urumqi, a city of three million people, to find her. īefore Gobi could begin the quarantine process necessary to enter the UK, Leonard left Gobi in the care of race organisers in Urumqi, while he flew back to the UK to arrange for a leave of absence from his job in Edinburgh. Leonard and his wife Lucja committed to donate the extra funds to welfare organizations that care for stray dogs. The campaign ultimately raised over £38,000. Īfter finishing the race, Leonard began a crowd funding campaign to raise £5,000 to bring Gobi back to Edinburgh from China. Gobi did not run Stages IV and V of the run, as the race had entered the desert where temperatures exceeded 52 ☌. In Stage III, Leonard carried Gobi several times through water barriers. Ultimately, Gobi ran 77 miles of the 155 mile race. At the end of the day, the dog joined Leonard in his tent. The dog ran a 23 mile leg of the race with him. Leonard noticed the stray dog at the start of the second day of the race. Gobi is a small, female Chihuahua mix that began following ultra marathon runner Dion Leonard at the beginning of Stage II of the Gobi Desert Run in China in June 2016. Dion and Gobi at Heavenly Lake, near Urumqi, China.

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