The Athens canine anarchist

[pirkko]

http://www.thisblogrules.com/2010/03/do ... years.html

I saw today this dog in a piece of tv news about Greece and he did look professional. At first I thought it is just a lost or stray dog, which got caught between the police line and the crowd, but then I noticed the dog was behaving like one of the the demonstrators....

[judith]

Oh, now that dog is really something! I wonder who took the photos, or spotted and collected the photos with the dog in them? Thanks, Pirkko.

[jackdaw version]

Amazing! My dog, Wally, would have been far too much of a troublemaker to take anywhere that might have turned into a riot.

[Adam Blake]

Must be a re-incarnated revolutionary of some sort!

[kevin]

Must be a re-incarnated revolutionary of some sort!

Fido Castro perhaps.

[NormanD]

PhotoShop. Sorry.

[judith]

You're probably right, but there is something so beguiling in a romantic sort of way - to think it could have been true, that there is such a dog, like in an old favorite children's story.

[NormanD]

In any children's story it would more likely be a cat. Ry Cooder gave us a whole album about a Wobbly-supporting red cat, like Tom (cat) Joad. In our political life, you always see dogs on the end of policemen. Maybe you do get canine deserters, I'm sure an Alsatian or two left the police in pursuit of chi-chi poodles during the events of May 68 in Paris.

[jackdaw version]

You're not a felinist, are you, Norman?

[NormanD]

You've outed me, J. One of our two sleeps on the bed all night to protect me from bad dreams about dogs. As a kid, I was chased by a dog in the park, which turned me into a canophobe. It was a bulldog, the national symbol, so it affected me politically too.

Gotta go - have to crack with the wise over on the Election threads.

[jackdaw version]

But, upon closer examination of the evidence, you may be right about the photoshopping. Would it were not so. I want the anarchist dog!

[jackdaw version]

But strange, isn't it, how cats are so much more anarchist than dogs?

[pirkko]

It doesn't seem to be photoshop... I saw him again in the news this morning.

There's a blog:
http://rebeldog.tumblr.com/

The link I gave doesn't seem to work, here are the photos again:
http://moarrawr.com/riot-dog/

I also saw an interesting discussion about various dogs, who apparently are considered fighting comrades by the Greek anarchists, I'm trying to locate the link. This dog, Kanellos, seems to have been a legend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FTaVgqSiIk

Who knows? I'd like to believe it's true:) Living in Moscow, I can see the kind of social human-animal (stray dogs, stray cats) network or relationships which could form a background for such a phenomenon.

[jackdaw version]

Oh, I want to believe in the Rebel Dog!

And the videos pretty much remove my doubts. They would seem to be much harder to fake than the stills.

When you say you "saw him again in the news this morning", what sort of news are you talking about? TV? Papers? Blog? More or less live TV should remove all doubts — even for a felinist!

[judith]

This dog, Kanellos, seems to have been a legend.

Yes, out of curiosity I checked Twitter etc.

(Have you seen this book, Norman? "A Hundred Cats Who Changed Civilization". http://tinyurl.com/294afbt)