Wolves

Local authorities in the northern port city of Thessaloniki have sounded the alarm over the increasing frequency of stray dogs attacking people.
According to reports on Thursday, the latest incident was last Monday, when a cyclist was attacked by a pack of 10 dogs in the Seih Sou forest.
"I would have been killed if a car hadn't passed by and helped me," he said.

A 65-year-old man was in serious condition at Thessaloniki's Ippokrateio Hospital on Saturday after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Elaiorema in the northern port city's Pylaia suburb.

According to the police, the 65-year-old was found at 4.30 a.m. on Friday with multiple wounds inflicted by dogs.

Sick and stray dogs in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri are taking shelter and being rehabilitated in rock-carved caves in 3,000-square-meter Patiköy (Paw Village). Natural caves in Zincidere, which were previously used by people as sheepfold, were turned into Patiköy by Talas Municipality after the villagers left.

From the beginning of 2019 to the end of October, 717 dogs from the shelters of municipal enterprise Ecoravnovesie found a new home, for comparison, for the entire 2018, 600 dogs were adopted. During the same period, 2,260 dogs were neutered, and 286 dogs were treated in the municipal veterinary clinic, 374 backyard dogs were neutered, the Sofia Municipality press office reported.

Ambient Greek trip-hop pioneer K. Bhta (Konstantinos Vita), one of the country's most respected electonica acts, will be performing at Six Dogs this Friday and next. Apart from tracks from his latest album, "Periergi Ora" (Odd Hour), and older work, the show will also include poetry, narrative and prose. Doors open at 9 p.m.

The American Heart Health Association explained in a statement that, although the results do not exactly prove that dogs contribute to the better health of their owners, there is some reliable evidence that they are good for the elderly.

A signal about dead dogs in the resort of Yundola provoked a quick reaction from the institutions in Velingrad and Pazardzhik. A zoo protector announced on social networks that at least 20 animals were poisoned.