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[Cap]

Anybody know how they treat animals up there?
A general consensus on dogs and dog ownership. etc.
Cheers.

[cyprusgrump]

Anybody know how they treat animals up there?
A general consensus on dogs and dog ownership. etc.
Cheers.

Much better than in the South IMHO...

They have food and water bowls for dogs in the shopping areas...

[Cap]

Anybody know how they treat animals up there?
A general consensus on dogs and dog ownership. etc.
Cheers.

Much better than in the South IMHO...

They have food and water bowls for dogs in the shopping areas...

Dude, I was up in the snowy Troodos with my 3 dogs.
There was a tour group of North Cypriots, maybe 20 people in all.
They went crazy when they saw the dogs.
A little girl attempted 3 times to approach the dogs and pet them.
Another women looked apprehensively at me for quite some time before making contact.
Another young lad starting talking to me in CY turk dialect, but I couldn't understand a word.
Then they they started asking questions about how old they were etc, then an old lady was watching the whole thing from a distance kept coming forward and backward
because she was infatuated with my female dog, and finally petted her.
Anyway, gawd damn, the dogs brought so much joy to those people.
I didn't think they expected doggos up in them hills.
North Cypriots, friendly as fu**, made my day.

[Sotos]

There is no such thing as "North Cypriots".

[repulsewarrior]

...well said Sotos, but i get your point Cap; nice!

[MR-from-NG]

There is no such thing as "North Cypriots".

Come on Sotos, liven up for fucks sake. We are Cypriots and happen to be living in the north of the island. Circumstances dictate this in the present political state the island is in. One day it will be a reunited island and north and south will not even be mentioned. Why are you so hell bent on living in denial?

[MR-from-NG]

Anybody know how they treat animals up there?
A general consensus on dogs and dog ownership. etc.
Cheers.

Much better than in the South IMHO...

They have food and water bowls for dogs in the shopping areas...

Dude, I was up in the snowy Troodos with my 3 dogs.
There was a tour group of North Cypriots, maybe 20 people in all.
They went crazy when they saw the dogs.
A little girl attempted 3 times to approach the dogs and pet them.
Another women looked apprehensively at me for quite some time before making contact.
Another young lad starting talking to me in CY turk dialect, but I couldn't understand a word.
Then they they started asking questions about how old they were etc, then an old lady was watching the whole thing from a distance kept coming forward and backward
because she was infatuated with my female dog, and finally petted her.
Anyway, gawd damn, the dogs brought so much joy to those people.
I didn't think they expected doggos up in them hills.
North Cypriots, friendly as fu**, made my day.

What breed of dogs are they Cap? As for the affection of TC’s for your dogs? You are I hope aware of the fact that we are proper human beings? We are no less or more human than you or Sotos, B25, even Cyprusgrump

[repulsewarrior]

...for the sake of conversation, i would find northern Cypriot as being more accurate perhaps, trying to be kind, or Turkish Cypriot from the occupied territories, to be most exact, (given the differentiation we are talking about,) given that they are likely, as "afraid" of you, of having met another Cypriot (as opposed to a "Greek"), as you, of them.

...it is as i said, if you travel north, find Cypriots, they are there, and just as eager to find, in meeting another Cypriot, comfort. If there is a way to spend money, have a good time and give nothing to the regime, or to the "Turks" who live for it, i say it is a political act worthy of a Cypriot's effort toward other Cypriots, while visiting; a direct action, so to speak.

[Cap]

Yes, MR NG, my dogs are 100% born and bred Cypriot dogs.
Dunno where you're going with those sarcastic comments.
All I was trying to say was they garnered more affection than usual from complete strangers...... they just happened to be Cyps!
HENCE, my question about the north.
Are doggos popular in general.

[MR-from-NG]

Yes, MR NG, my dogs are 100% born and bred Cypriot dogs.
Dunno where you're going with those sarcastic comments.
All I was trying to say was they garnered more affection than usual from complete strangers...... they just happened to be Cyps!
HENCE, my question about the north.
Are doggos popular in general.

Apologies for my response Cap. Clearly I shouldn't post under the influence of alcohol. TC's do love their cats and dogs. Most homes will have one or the other if not both. Iceman (a much loved and missed CF member) has a love for Dobermans. He breeds them and shows them in dog shows all around Europe. He actually shows them in the RoC and won many awards.

Unfortunately you do get the odd idiot hunter that will take 2-3 dogs on his first hunt and keep the best dog and shoot dead the others. There was such a case a few years back. The police used all their resources but couldn't find the idiot. There was a public outcry, had he been found he would've been lynched.