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The U.S. Olympic team went to Sochi in search of medals, but more and more athletes are planning on returning with an extra keepsake from their trip.

Several American Olympians, notably slopestyle skiing silver medalist Gus Kenworthy, are working to adopt some of the more than 1,000 stray dogs in Sochi. Kenworthy has postponed his return home in order to get the paperwork necessary to allow him to adopt stray puppies that have captured his heart in Russia.

The dogs that Kenworthy has been visiting live under a security tent outside the media center in the mountain village of Rosa Khutor. “I tried to take them and bring them into the Athletes' Village with me, but you're not allowed to do that, so they've had to stay here,’’ Kenworthy told Natalie Morales on TODAY Wednesday. “But I've come and seen them every day, and been feeding them.

“When this tent goes…they don't really have anywhere else to sleep,’’ he added.

kreator wrote:I didn't know the Olympics were where we fund and equip our athletes for low-priority humanitarian work. If so, we should have the next winter Olympics in C.A.R. or Syria.

Wild Bill wrote:Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.

Turdacious wrote:

Wild Bill wrote:Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.

Bill, the story in the US before the Olympics was this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olymp ... -1.1600417

Wild Bill wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

Wild Bill wrote:Stray dogs its nature :) he planning to tear poor animals from their living areal :) Now they freely walking where they wants.
And what he plans for them? Living in cages?
Seriously, may be he is good man, but stupid.

Bill, the story in the US before the Olympics was this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/olymp ... -1.1600417

I googled, there really was plan to exterminate stray dogs. Sochi's municipality even started tender for it. But tender was lost because pest control company did not participated in it :)
So plans were canceled.

Phaedrus wrote:You are fucking savages! No animals are ever killed in the paradise that is the America.

kreator wrote:I didn't know the Olympics were where we fund and equip our athletes for low-priority humanitarian work.

Wild Bill wrote:

Phaedrus wrote:You are fucking savages! No animals are ever killed in the paradise that is the America.

I understand you are joking, but i also think it is bad.
Usually muncipalitys doing nothing about dogs, only when there many complaints from citizens, not one or two.
Only if really many complaints, they decides to kill some amount of dogs.
It is bad, but urban people it is also nature :) It is one of nature's forces for dogs.
And big dog's hordes often became dangerous.
In Sochi as i understand wasn't complaints from citizens, they just thought that dogs will spoil landscape :)
In any case plan was canceled, and as i read there already built a shelter for stray dogs.

In my town no such shelter. But i only one time in my life heard that some dogs were killed. I mean it is really rare thing.

Phaedrus wrote:The media coverage of how terrible the Games are is tiring. Russia has screwed up, they are overly expensive, toilets are odd and beds are small, food is substandard, a clerk in a hotel was rude and on and on and on.

Phaedrus wrote:Going into a country and ripping animals from their homeland is shameful.

It will probably get him on 25X as many talk shows however.

Wild Bill wrote:And big dog's hordes often became dangerous.

JohnDoe wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... m-the-city

50,000 dogs on the streets of Detroit. Minus mine, who I picked up off the streets seven years ago this April.

DikTracy6000 wrote:Wild Bill, weren't you planning some hunting trip to kill dogs with clawhammers last year? You've gone soft from too much snatch and jerk.

JohnDoe wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... m-the-city

50,000 dogs on the streets of Detroit. Minus mine, who I picked up off the streets seven years ago this April.

Turdacious wrote:

Phaedrus wrote:Going into a country and ripping animals from their homeland is shameful.

It will probably get him on 25X as many talk shows however.

And all the pussy he can handle.

Wild Bill wrote:

Phaedrus wrote:The media coverage of how terrible the Games are is tiring. Russia has screwed up, they are overly expensive, toilets are odd and beds are small, food is substandard, a clerk in a hotel was rude and on and on and on.

i see. In some ways US today reminds USSR in 1980 :)