They suggested that a monument to the Dog Boss be erected in Kiev instead of the monument to the Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin. KlymenkoTime Telegram channel writes that the author of the petition put forward this idea on the website of the Kiev City Council.
On November 15, the Pushkin monument was dismantled in the Ukrainian capital.
Boss (a working dog of the Jack Russell Terrier breed from Ukraine, which gained international fame during the beginning of a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. The dog also became a symbol of the International Humanitarian Demining Coordination Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
The cartridge weighs about 4 kilograms, which makes it possible to use it in work to detect anti-personnel mines, for which animals weighing up to five kilograms are allowed.
In 2020, Mikhail Ilyev, head of the pyrotechnic group of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Chernigov region, bought a dog from a colleague and gave it to his son. They initially wanted to give him the nickname Bullet, but felt this fell through. Dog handlers started working with Boss when he was 6 months old. When his owner took him to work one day, he demonstrated his ability as a detection dog after being trained to detect explosives by smell, but he had not been specifically trained as a bomb disposal dog; his owners originally intended him as a show dog. Officially not in the service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. With the outbreak of hostilities, the animal began to be included in demining zones in the Chernihiv region. According to the Office of the President of Ukraine, as of May 8, 2022, Patron helped detect 236 explosive devices.
In Cannes on May 28 given Palm Dog Award “Today in Cannes [Патрону] Palm Dog Award was given; This is the world’s most prestigious film award given to four-legged animals! The State Emergency Service noted that since the Patron has truly become a world newsreel star in the last few months, the jury unanimously decided that our tailed pyrotechnician is worthy of “Palm” status.
Previously Tiger was attacked For a pet dog in the village of Razdolnoye, Primorsky Territory.