“I noticed all the cute, cuddly ones were being selected, but he was being overlooked, so I decided I would have him,” Ursula Dalton said. “Here his life is totally different to in Romania.”
“I’ve been a dog lover my whole life and to find the cutest family of strays ever here at the Olympics was just a fairy tale way to have it go down,” Gus Kenworthy said.
Igor Airapetyan is one of many Russian citizens who after reading a social media plea to save the Sochi dogs, did something to save the animals in need.
An American tourist enlisted the help of a South American rescue group to find and care for a street dog while she arranges transport to bring the pet to American.
An injured, street dog spend days waiting for someone to save her. Two Good Samaritans rescued the dog and now veterinarians are doing everything they can to save her life.
“We heard something coming from the rubble so dug down where the sound was coming from and we found her there,” said rescuer Dave Barritt. “It amazing that she could come out of that looking so well.”
“Let’s call things by their real name. These dogs are biological trash,” said Alexei Sorokin, the owner of Basya (Basia) Services, who is in charge of rounding up dogs and disposing of them.