Straying from the truth?
Straying from the truth?
I am still not sure if the following is real – or not … but I re-report it so that you can make up your own minds. Evidently, stray dogs are being used as mobile billboards by rival shops in a Russian city. Shopworkers grab the dogs in the city of Penza after luring them with cutlets or sausages. They then spray paint their shop logo on the animal (reports the Molodoy Leninets newspaper). Logos include not only the name of the shop, but also the goods they stock, including big brands such as Sony and Camel. The newspaper says workers of rival stores often catch each other's dogs and repaint them in their own colours. Local vets say they can't save animals from being painted as it is not illegal. They say it's a question of ethics rather than animal welfare. Stranger than fiction?
