Sobaka

I'm sure many people have heard about the Sobaka, or dog, problem in Sochi. Thousands of stray dogs have been living around the Olympic construction grounds so the city has hired a company to kill off the dogs. The director general of the company that has been hired told The Associated Press that during a rehearsal for the opening ceremonies a dog walked in on the performers. He said if something like that were to happen during the actual olympics it would be a disgrace to the whole country. Well sire, i'm sorry to tell you but a stray dog seems like the least of the countries worries judging by the pictures i've seen of the hotels, bathrooms, and water in Sochi.

If you ask me, dogs would make the olympics that much better! I'm also a dog freak though. Any situation that didn't previously have dogs that gets dogs thrown into it moves up on my list!

It is the same situation with the culls on reserves in Canada because safety is always an issue. Of course it's not safe if these stray dogs are biting children, but why is this a problem in the first place? And why is it only being dealt with once the olympics are starting? Maybe it has always been a problem but we never knew because Sochi is only newsworthy because of the Olympics. A Russian lawyer also said that the dogs elimination is the quickest way. Well no kidding, but you don't solve problems by performing massive killings!

Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, is helping a charity and shelter to save the animals. The charity members have been driving around on golf carts on the Olympic grounds and in the surrounding area to get all of the dogs together and take them to a shelter on the outskirts of the city. I'm glad to see that dogs are something we can all feel the same about.

It seems dog and music, and food actually, are three things that are a universal language. And that makes me very happy.

Those stray dogs may look something like this

 after about a year of them being rescued.