The hundreds of friendly stray dogs in the Olympic Park of Soshi had been condemned to a horrible death until their reach savior appeared. During the months of the construction of the Soshi Olympic Park, hundreds of friendly dogs had been roaming in the neighborhood as they were being fed and petted by the Olympic builders. Only about a week before the opening, the workers had left, and the dogs had stayed . Most members of the organizing committee already didn't appreciate the bad image that the dogs would give Soshi to visitors, so when a dog attended the final opening ceremony rehearsal, they snapped. That is when they decided to poison the dogs.
Soon after many where hearing the rumors of the dog killings in Soshi, one of those person was Mr.Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, who took pity of the dogs as they reminded him of his childhood pet. While the Soshi Organizing Committee built a bad quality shelter to please the media, Mr.Deripaska created a proper shelter, spaying an neutering all dogs it could find.
During interviews dogs were refered to as "biological trash" and "an epidemic of rabies" by Alexei Sorahim, director in charge of the "gathering and disposing of dogs""The dog jumped up and started running around in circles. Then she fell down and started spitting up... I called the veterinarian. He said there was a hundred percent guarantee he was poisoned" Yulia Krasova, Animal activist.
Finally many followed the billionaire's example, groups of animal right activists went in the street and fed, spayed and neutered all dogs they could. Even if many dogs died, there are already 140 dogs that were saved and dozens adopted.
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