Greece's riot dog

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13802940

I had noticed it in some news and apparently it's a leader of the pack !

AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago)

fuck yeah i love this dog

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago)

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BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago)

The Greeks call him Sausage because he's a hot dog.

James Mitchell, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago)

HOOS OTM re: dog

StanM, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:42 (thirteen years ago)

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BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 June 2011 08:45 (thirteen years ago)

why are bbc using that shit kaiser chiefs song on a news story

MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 18 June 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago)

Is he different to Kanellos or has his name just changed?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/may/06/greece-protest

модный хипстер (ShariVari), Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago)

Same dog. He's a stray so he doesn't have an official name, apparently.

StanM, Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:10 (thirteen years ago)

Ah. Confusingly, not the same dog. It was Loukanikos all along and Kanellos died in the 70s.

google search result: http://www.thebellforum.com/showthread.php?t=50130&p=380644

I live in Athens, in exarxeia and this dog is very famous and everybody feeds and loves this animal. His name is LOUK, from Loukanikos a word that means sausage, because he used to eat sausages all the time.He lives on the street,he has no master and he, allong with 4-5 other dogs comes to every demonstration here in Athens.

You will find him every day in MESOLLOGIOU street, where ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOULOS,a 15 year old student was shot by the police.

KANELLOS was another dog that used to act the same, but he died two years ago and now he is buried by comrades inside the Polytechneio university in Athens, where the uprising against dictatorship took place,in 1973.

The members of Indymedia athens,used to feed him.Also when Kanellos was caught by the dog catcher 4 years ago,a demo of 400 people took place and we released him from the dog catcher!You can find his grave inside the university.Kanello RIP!

These dogs live in Exarxeia and they don’t belong to nobody. We call them”the dogs of the movement” and there many of them, such as ROZA,DICK,RIBO,PETROS, and LOUCY.

StanM, Saturday, 18 June 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago)

It thinks it's people!

Circlework de Soleil (S-), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago)

Kanellos!!!!!!!!!

all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago)

A song for comrade Kanelos, the riot dog
Song , lyrics S. Drogosis
The legendary Kanellos passed away about 2 years ago. His name means Cinnamon. He lived a long and free life. He must have been about 17 when he died. He was always there to stand next to the students, the protesters and the people hanging around the central area of Athens, especially at Exarcheia. In his last 12 years he moved into the Polytechneio premises, the Technical University of Athens which is in the Exarcheia area. He became a frequenter, more frequent than many students and started to hang around the corridors, the classes and students councils becoming more of a friend than a mascot. When the Dean of the Architecture department called the dog catcher the people rised. A petition and even a demostration was held, in demand of Kanellos release. Finally they let him go but he was already worned out by arthritis and old age and had trouble walking. The students gathered money and bought him a wheelchair for dogs. One student took him in so he could take care of him in his last days. Kanellos finally passed away on the 2nd of july 2008 and returned again into Polytechneio where he was buried accompanied by many of his friends.

Rebel Dog is just one of the new generation of political strays. You can find strays attending demostrations in many cities of Greece, such as Thessaloniki. All the dogs would like to be like Kanellos, free, happy and restless

Here are photos of the late Kanellos

A song for Kanellos

(translated extract)

A song for the dog, Kanelos / who bit me but I understand him / he consists in his point of view with passion / that I wrongly live my life

all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

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BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 June 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago)

Lol Greece has a dog

henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 18 June 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago)

But still I used to eat loukanika on the regular. Awesome sausage

henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 18 June 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago)

Loukanika Jagger would understand

henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 18 June 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago)

loukanika vs bastormathes

henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 18 June 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago)


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