Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy found some puppehs in Sochi. He's doing this:

[Are_grits_groceries]

Also, for the people wondering, I've lined up kennels 4 the pups & made vaccination appointments. Doing all I can to bring them home w/ me!


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/winter-olympics-2014-us-freestyle-skier-gus-kenworthy-adopting-stray-sochi-puppies

Give him all the medals.
Every.Single.One!

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. And he wears these:

Kitten mittens!
FTW!

[tblue37]

4. I can't even hang out with people who do not love animals. Animals are too important to me,

too much a part of my life!

[get the red out]

7. I know what you mean

I just do NOT get someone who doesn't love them.

[hamsterjill]

10. Totally agree.

If someone doesn't understand that animals have feelings, etc., then I don't understand that person!

[tblue37]

13. Yes, it seems to me that there has to be a coldness in the heart of such a person. nt

[joeybee12]

28. Absolutely...animals are wonderful...all of them...nt

[Le Taz Hot]

39. Back when I was single, one of the things I'd do

whenever a guy would come over to my house was to watch his interaction with my cats. Ignoring them sealed his fate. My (now) husband reached out and picked up one of my fur babies, but her on his lap and just petted and petted her for the longest time. Sez I to myself, "hmmmmm." That was 14 years ago.

[eShirl]

2. real men rescue furbabies

[calimary]

12. And HOW!!!

[JNelson6563]

3. OMG too much cute in those pictures!

Love it!

[calimary]

14. I know! I almost can't stand it!

Almost excruciatingly cute! LOVE this!!! LOVE him!!! LOVE those puppies!!!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. Awesome. This is what matters, not the pampered press whining...

about a downed curtain rod or "no paper" commodes.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. +++!! n/t

[brooklynite]

8. How do we know these aren't anchor puppies?

Sleeping all day long; taking free food...

[Swede Atlanta]

17. Darrel Issa is on it.....

There will be exhaustive Congressional hearings about these anchor puppies. They will want to bring their mother and father and all their half-brothers and sisters in. And then they will want free education and welfare and health insurance.

This is a matter of top national urgency. Darrel Issa to the rescue. So glad we have him looking after the nation's interests.

[okaawhatever]

20. Too funny. Commie anchor babies at that!! nt

[ReRe]

40. Or teeny-tiny Russian spy chips implanted in their shiny black noses...

[UtahLib]

9. My new favorite Olympian. nt

[calimary]

15. Mine, too!

I LOVE this guy and I love his heart! It's undoubtedly huge - full of those four puppies and I'll bet there's STILL room for many more!

AND they're litter mates. He's gonna have a WUNNNNderful time with them back home! Seriously! We adopted two tiny kitties who were litter mates awhile back. Almost TOO wonderful! They keep each other company, they bathe each other, they sleep together, they play together, they snuggle together, and they seem extremely well-adjusted - from the get-go! I think that familiarity helped keep them calm and confident as they were growing. No shock of separation or anything. They had each other, and it seemed to be comforting, or something. And it's a dividend that's still paying like gangbusters, some five years later! We WILL do it again next time! Litter mates. They just absolutely ROCK!!!

HIGHLY recommended!!!

[dsc]

11. cute and the puppies aren't bad either

[Swede Atlanta]

16. OK I needed that....

well I didn't need to be brought to tears but I was....

After the reports of them shooting strays this is an incredible story of love and compassion. Russians need not apply.

[Are_grits_groceries]

19. Hey

There are some over there doing what they can.
Putin ruined the total area. I don't even know if they could get into Sochi to find their dogs if they wanted them.

Somebody is taking care of those puppehs and of most of the ones we see. They appear healthy and unafraid.(or they did)

[Swede Atlanta]

22. I would hope there is internal domestic turmoil

as a result of the order to kill all strays. I have yet to see a story on this but would welcome a link.

It just seems Putin is doing what Russian autocrats have done before whether it was Stalin and his mass killings and gulags or during the Czar the pogroms against Gypsies and Jews. They go after those that are largely defenseless because they are soulless individuals.

I'm not saying that all Russians are soulless but their autocratic leaders are.

[Lifelong Protester]

18. Great! I have not been watching the Olympics

But this guy deserves a medal!!

[okaawhatever]

21. Dear Republican Men, This is how you get laid for the rest of your life. Signed, all women nt

[bullwinkle428]

23. I KNEW I should have glossed myself more on DU a couple of years

ago when I helped rescue a litter of kittens that had been dumped!

[okaawhatever]

46. Yep..........works every time. nt

[bravenak]

24. I may be in love!!!

Those puppies are so cute, I love them already. The one in the middle looks like it wants to come home to me.....
He should keep the one in the first picture, they're starting to look alike, like soul mates.

[Jakes Progress]

25. Thank you.

Good stories needed here. So easy to find the bad stuff. Thank you for a lift to my day.

I love that he likes both kittens and pups.

[Dawson Leery]

26. k/r

[joeybee12]

27. Absolutely adorable!

And so are the puppies!

[narnian60]

29. Beautiful man...

beautiful pups.

[Enthusiast]

30. Puppehs.

[catbyte]

31. Awwwww! I'm actually drooling from the cute!

[Seedersandleechers]

32. For anyone who has ever tried to bring an animal into

the US or out of the US to say like Europe takes about 3 months at least. They will need the vaccines, chips, and then a blood titer after 3 months. I wish him luck tho.


http://www.cdc.gov/animalimportation/dogs.html

[magical thyme]

33. per the article, he rescued their mother too!

Activists in the city have been rounding up the strays and bringing them home and to temporary shelters.

He's keeping just one, and apparently family members are lining up to adopt the others...

What a sweetheart!!!!

He may only have won silver on the slopes, but his heart is pure GOLD!

[Hubert Flottz]

34. What republicans will think.

Those are really KGB secret agents dressed up like puppies, who are trying to infiltrate the USA and cause mass turbidity, calamity and other assorted and sundry horseshit. The GOP wishes to raise taxes on the poor, send all the rest of America's jobs overseas, place the old, the disabled and hungry out on the back porch with the "Foodstampers" and increase spending at the Pentagon.

The pups are beauties. I have two pups now and I'd take another in a heartbeat, but I'm too old to go through another divorce. I hope they all find a wonderful forever home in the "Free World"

[ReRe]

41. see #40 this thread ;-)

[Skittles]

35. I've often said a man never looks more masculine than when he is holding a kitten

I will add puppies to that; yes INDEED

[ybbor]

36. I am a huge fan!

As a former 10 year resident of Telluride I am feeling very proud! Not only is he an excellent representative of the amazing skiers and boarders that reside in that most beautiful town, but he is also indicative of the attitude of the people who live there. I know many of the coaches for the local freestyle team and I am sure that they are all smiles today. T'ride is beyond proud for what Gus represents on and off the slopes! Bravo Mr. Kenworthy, Bravo!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

37. Cute guy. Olympic athlete. Rescues puppies.

Line up, ladies. One at a time.

[cate94]

38. What a wonderful guy!

[ReRe]

42. Gus is going to be a great father someday...

What child would not want him for their daddy? And young lady for her husband? I'm so proud of him.

[VWolf]

43. Gus Kenworthy .... is worthy! n/t

[narnian60]

44. If I had any hearts left,

I would give you one for that cute comment.

[Liberal_in_LA]

45. giant puppies