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[h1]Mysterious 'Rebel Dog' of Greek riots becoming latest Web icon[/h1]
It's a time-honored adage that anyone in Washington who wants a friend had better get a dog. But who knew that man's best friend would also be a boon to Greek rioters?
Amid the turmoil of the Greece financial crisis, photos and videos of street protests have turned up a kind of canine "Where's Waldo" figure: a mutt that may have some German shepherd genes, and clearly has a strong interest in civic disorder.
While one can't be certain that it's the same pooch at every protest — Athens is something of a magnet for http://www.athensguide.com/straydogs/index.htm">street-savvy stray dogs — this mutt does sport a distinctive blue collar, which may indicate that, while he's a stray, he's also current on his shots.
By some accounts, the dog has been on the Athens protest scene ever http://www.thisblogrules....gle-riot-for-years.html/">since 2008(though some say the 2008 pooch is a similar-looking dog named Kanelloswho established himself as a fixture at demonstrations and died thatyear).
The current mutt has won a long string of http://rebeldog.tumblr.com/">blog http://www.buzzfeed.com/a...os-the-greek-protest-dog">tributes and a number of online nicknames, including "Rebel Dog," "Riot Dog" and "Protest Dog." He even has a http://www.facebook.com/p...Riot-Dog/112204342124708">Facebook pagedevoted to him (as "Riot-Dog"). Here's a sample of his protest outings(with apologies to Kanellos partisans if he's inadvertently includedhere)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/y...07/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1963
It's a time-honored adage that anyone in Washington who wants a friend had better get a dog. But who knew that man's best friend would also be a boon to Greek rioters?
Amid the turmoil of the Greece financial crisis, photos and videos of street protests have turned up a kind of canine "Where's Waldo" figure: a mutt that may have some German shepherd genes, and clearly has a strong interest in civic disorder.
While one can't be certain that it's the same pooch at every protest — Athens is something of a magnet for http://www.athensguide.com/straydogs/index.htm">street-savvy stray dogs — this mutt does sport a distinctive blue collar, which may indicate that, while he's a stray, he's also current on his shots.
By some accounts, the dog has been on the Athens protest scene ever http://www.thisblogrules....gle-riot-for-years.html/">since 2008(though some say the 2008 pooch is a similar-looking dog named Kanelloswho established himself as a fixture at demonstrations and died thatyear).
The current mutt has won a long string of http://rebeldog.tumblr.com/">blog http://www.buzzfeed.com/a...os-the-greek-protest-dog">tributes and a number of online nicknames, including "Rebel Dog," "Riot Dog" and "Protest Dog." He even has a http://www.facebook.com/p...Riot-Dog/112204342124708">Facebook pagedevoted to him (as "Riot-Dog"). Here's a sample of his protest outings(with apologies to Kanellos partisans if he's inadvertently includedhere)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/y...07/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1963
