http://www.today.com/sochi/puppy-love-u ... 2D12136964The U.S. Olympic team went to Sochi in search of medals, but more and more athletes are planning on returning with an extra keepsake from their trip.
Several American Olympians, notably slopestyle skiing silver medalist Gus Kenworthy, are working to adopt some of the more than 1,000 stray dogs in Sochi. Kenworthy has postponed his return home in order to get the paperwork necessary to allow him to adopt stray puppies that have captured his heart in Russia.
The dogs that Kenworthy has been visiting live under a security tent outside the media center in the mountain village of Rosa Khutor. “I tried to take them and bring them into the Athletes' Village with me, but you're not allowed to do that, so they've had to stay here,’’ Kenworthy told Natalie Morales on TODAY Wednesday. “But I've come and seen them every day, and been feeding them.
“When this tent goes…they don't really have anywhere else to sleep,’’ he added.
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I didn't know the Olympics were where we fund and equip our athletes for low-priority humanitarian work. If so, we should have the next winter Olympics in C.A.R. or Syria.
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good for kenworthy
if he were trying to save cats, that would be another matter altogether
if he were trying to save cats, that would be another matter altogether
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Don't worry-- I'm sure they'll get taxed for it, like they do for their medals.kreator wrote:I didn't know the Olympics were where we fund and equip our athletes for low-priority humanitarian work. If so, we should have the next winter Olympics in C.A.R. or Syria.
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Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.
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Going into a country and ripping animals from their homeland is shameful.
It will probably get him on 25X as many talk shows however.
It will probably get him on 25X as many talk shows however.
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Bill, the story in the US before the Olympics was this:Wild Bill wrote:Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olymp ... -1.1600417
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I googled, there really was plan to exterminate stray dogs. Sochi's municipality even started tender for it. But tender was lost because pest control company did not participated in it :)Turdacious wrote:Bill, the story in the US before the Olympics was this:Wild Bill wrote:Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olymp ... -1.1600417
So plans were canceled.
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You are fucking savages! No animals are ever killed in the paradise that is the America.Wild Bill wrote:I googled, there really was plan to exterminate stray dogs. Sochi's municipality even started tender for it. But tender was lost because pest control company did not participated in it :)Turdacious wrote:Bill, the story in the US before the Olympics was this:Wild Bill wrote:Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olymp ... -1.1600417
So plans were canceled.
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I understand you are joking, but i also think it is bad.Phaedrus wrote:You are fucking savages! No animals are ever killed in the paradise that is the America.
Usually muncipalitys doing nothing about dogs, only when there many complaints from citizens, not one or two.
Only if really many complaints, they decides to kill some amount of dogs.
It is bad, but urban people it is also nature :) It is one of nature's forces for dogs.
And big dog's hordes often became dangerous.
In Sochi as i understand wasn't complaints from citizens, they just thought that dogs will spoil landscape :)
In any case plan was canceled, and as i read there already built a shelter for stray dogs.
In my town no such shelter. But i only one time in my life heard that some dogs were killed. I mean it is really rare thing.
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I don't really care much about humanitarian work, but I happen to care a great deal about cats and dogs. I regularly donate to animal charities and volunteer at animal shelters.kreator wrote:I didn't know the Olympics were where we fund and equip our athletes for low-priority humanitarian work.
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Yes, I am joking, sort of.Wild Bill wrote:I understand you are joking, but i also think it is bad.Phaedrus wrote:You are fucking savages! No animals are ever killed in the paradise that is the America.
Usually muncipalitys doing nothing about dogs, only when there many complaints from citizens, not one or two.
Only if really many complaints, they decides to kill some amount of dogs.
It is bad, but urban people it is also nature :) It is one of nature's forces for dogs.
And big dog's hordes often became dangerous.
In Sochi as i understand wasn't complaints from citizens, they just thought that dogs will spoil landscape :)
In any case plan was canceled, and as i read there already built a shelter for stray dogs.
In my town no such shelter. But i only one time in my life heard that some dogs were killed. I mean it is really rare thing.
The media coverage of how terrible the Games are is tiring. Russia has screwed up, they are overly expensive, toilets are odd and beds are small, food is substandard, a clerk in a hotel was rude and on and on and on. I mean, during the Cold War, this would have been par for the course but now it's a bit overkill. Now, I keep seeing comments about how people should bring Russia's strays to the US...where ~4 million stray dogs and cats are killed each year.
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i see. In some ways US today reminds USSR in 1980 :)Phaedrus wrote:The media coverage of how terrible the Games are is tiring. Russia has screwed up, they are overly expensive, toilets are odd and beds are small, food is substandard, a clerk in a hotel was rude and on and on and on.
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Wild Bill, weren't you planning some hunting trip to kill dogs with clawhammers last year? You've gone soft from too much snatch and jerk.
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And all the pussy he can handle.Phaedrus wrote:Going into a country and ripping animals from their homeland is shameful.
It will probably get him on 25X as many talk shows however.
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I think Americans would be less outraged by this if packs of stray dogs were common in American cities. You'll find packs of dogs in more rural areas, but the average American city-dweller or suburbanite doesn't imagine a pack when they hear about a stray dog. They imagine a lonely, isolated dog who will likely be adopted or reunited with an owner shortly after arriving at a local shelter.Wild Bill wrote:And big dog's hordes often became dangerous.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... m-the-city
50,000 dogs on the streets of Detroit. Minus mine, who I picked up off the streets seven years ago this April.
50,000 dogs on the streets of Detroit. Minus mine, who I picked up off the streets seven years ago this April.
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Our forthcoming 2nd world status seems inevitable.JohnDoe wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... m-the-city
50,000 dogs on the streets of Detroit. Minus mine, who I picked up off the streets seven years ago this April.
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I don't like these packs, but only swear to them :) never personally complained to municipality :)DikTracy6000 wrote:Wild Bill, weren't you planning some hunting trip to kill dogs with clawhammers last year? You've gone soft from too much snatch and jerk.
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All important in the get out the vote strategy.JohnDoe wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... m-the-city
50,000 dogs on the streets of Detroit. Minus mine, who I picked up off the streets seven years ago this April.
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Packs of dogs are dangerous and a problem in a lot of cities around the world. A year or so ago, I briefly chatted with an animal rescue group that tries to find homes for stray dogs. I asked if they could capture, spay/neuter and release and was told that would be cruel as it would hurt the animals.
Ever since the USSR folded, the Games have been drug testers vs. athletes.
Indeed.Turdacious wrote:And all the pussy he can handle.Phaedrus wrote:Going into a country and ripping animals from their homeland is shameful.
It will probably get him on 25X as many talk shows however.
You know, perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps it's good that the media is trying to make Russia out to be the bad guy. Things were so much more interesting when it was the good ole' American boys vs. the evil empire, Jed vs invading Russian forces, Rocky vs. Drago, Rocky vs. the Soviet tanks, Stallone vs Gorbachev.Wild Bill wrote:i see. In some ways US today reminds USSR in 1980 :)Phaedrus wrote:The media coverage of how terrible the Games are is tiring. Russia has screwed up, they are overly expensive, toilets are odd and beds are small, food is substandard, a clerk in a hotel was rude and on and on and on.
Ever since the USSR folded, the Games have been drug testers vs. athletes.
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