this homeless dog is one of many in russia.

it seems to be a problem haunting not only small cities, like voronezh (where i'm from), but also a central, clean (especially around the time this photograph was taken - city was cleaned out for celerbations) city like moscow.

homeless dogs exist in packs and i wouldn't call them domesticated by any means.

this one followed me and ^hesitation from about the middle of the red square (nice place for a homeless dog, eh?) until the very end, waited for us as we stopped to take photographs, followed us across a long bridge over the river and across street lights. it stayed within half a meter of us and displayed incredible amounts of affection, love, hunger and cuteness throughout this whole time.

to such a degree that hesi and i stopped in a convinience store and bought all of us some russian delicatessen meats - 4 sticks of smoked meats. 2 went to the dog, one went to hesi and one went to me. except i fed half of mine to the dog... couldn't help but be impressed at how well they beg.

another insight into russia from a western-ish perspective...