Georgian stray dog shepherding kids across street given shelter, attention from ABC News
A stray Georgian dog has received the title ‘people’s choice’ by Adjara tourism agency. Photo: Department of Tourism and Resorts of Adjara press office.
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Georgian stray dog named ‘Kupata’, who helps children safely cross the road in Georgia’s western, coastal city of Batumi, has been awarded by the Department of Tourism and Resorts of Adjara, building for him a shelter with the inscription ‘people’s choice'.
Kupata appeared in focus of the ABC news shortly after the video went viral by one of Georgian Facebook users earlier this week.
ABC news: Stray dog helps kids cross road in eastern European country of Georgia. [The video was first released on social media by Beka Tsinadze].
Beka Tsinadze from Batumi was the first who uploaded the video depicting the efforts of the dog to help children on January 20, which was quickly shared by thousands, including ABC news.
Batumi Tourism Department says that Kupata really deserves the home and the title.
The video has already been viewed by more than a million people from across the world.
Batumi City Hall has announced the launch of a pilot project, unofficially named ‘Kupata’, for which City Hall has allocated 720 GEL [$257] annually for individuals who will adopt stray dogs in Batumi.
Two cases of rabies in stray dogs were reported by the Animals Monitoring Agency of the Tbilisi City Hall on Tuesday, with professionals of the city department launching a local vaccination of animals in the vicinity in addition to their usual vaccination efforts.
A husky is recovering in a Tbilisi clinic after protecting a five-year-old child in the holiday retreat village of Tabakhmela near Tbilisi against a venomous snake on Saturday.
Residents of a Tbilisi district locality were evacuated on Thursday to Friday night as professionals searched for a python snake that had escaped from a pet shop and safely recaptured it as a result of the search.
The State Laboratory of Agriculture (SLA) has called on the public on the World Rabies Day 2021 to test their dogs for rabies as the disease is very dangerous for humans.