Kanellos the Greek protest dog

[omgangiepants]

A dog that has been seen at nearly every demonstration in Athens over the last two years has turned up again during the recent protests against new austerity measures.

Comments

[hazel_belle]

I like how the dog has his own post, you rock pup...you rock!

[visiblemarket]

I'm ridiculous, because I'm more worried about something bad happening to that dog than I am about something bad happening to any of those protesters. But I can't help it. He's so cute!

[omgangiepants]

I don't think any of the protesters would allow anything bad to happen. I read something about him being picked up and put in a shelter a couple of years ago and a bunch of protesters busted in and got him back. They'd go apeshit if something lethal were to happen to him, I'm sure.

[homasse]

That was a different dog--that one died about two years ago. This dog seems to be his successor.

[fatdancinmonkey]

wat
he died?
:c

[hazel_belle]

Really? Link please!

[hazel_belle]

thanks!

[antiotter]

I don't think it's CS gas. CS is usually whitish-clear smoke. I've only seen yellow smoke grenades used in NATO countries for signaling.

It's possible a senior police commander was using various colored smoke grenades to signal the riot police to take specific actions against the crowd based on the color, (i.e. yellow: stand your ground, red: force them back, etc) as the noise from protests/riots would make even radio communications ineffective, especially trying to quickly pass orders down to a large number of riot police.

[whatisurdamage]

this dog is so awesome lol