Who?
Our pets never seize too amaze us, and these Russian dogs are no exception. With the difference of being free to wander all over the city, these stray dogs have become much smarter than others around the world. It's not only humans who get around Moscow by subway, these dogs are daily users of the subway knowing which train to ride and exactly were to jump off. Their daily routine starts early in the morning where they take the train from the suburbs to the center of Moscow in search of food and back home.
When?
This way of life as suggested by Russian scientist started back in 1990 after the Soviet union downfall, Moscow's industrial complexes were moved from the city to the outskirts of Moscow.
Why?
These industrial complexes where home to the Muscovite stray dogs, so they made the smartest decision: move together with their houses.
How?
Even if it meant learning how to travel by subway, these smarty pants succeeded and have adapted wonderfully and just like us people take the train downtown and the back home in the evening.
Food is abundant downtown and obtaining it is difficult task for these clever dogs.
They have developed numerous skills for their survival such as:
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1. Surprise attack: Barking at unaware citizens while they enjoy a shawarma, hotdog whatever their snack of choice, taken by surprise they tend to drop their food and dogs quickly snatch it mid air or from the ground.
2. Puppy eyes: They also use gentler methods in their urban hunt for food, making use of their natural canine cuteness they choose appropriate subjects to show their puppy eyes or rub their heads against.
3. Timing: Knowing when to jump off the train, biologist say these dogs use their sense of time to know when they've reached their destination.
4. Crossing streets: They do this not by reacting to the color red or green, but on the image they see on the traffic light.
5. Jumping stunts: these stray dogs have learned to enjoy their daily routine by making up a game. Which consists on jumping in the subways just seconds before the doors close risking to get their tails caught.
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