The War of the Stray Dog: How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, it didn't take the newly-independent nations of Greece and Bulgaria long to begin bickering over their borders. Throughout the early 1920s, small bands of peasants from both countries routinely crossed the border to steal livestock, damage property and harass locals. This untenable situation reached a breaking point in 1925, when a Greek border guard was fatally shot while crossing into Bulgaria to retrieve his dog (who had strayed away on dog business). This single incident sparked a cavalcade of chaos that eventually caught the attention of the League of Nations.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's open today's show with some statistics. |
| 0:27.5 | This often said that people could be either dog people or cat people, meaning they prefer |
| 0:33.1 | one pet over another. |
| 0:35.9 | According to a fairly arbitrary poll reported by today.com, 74% of us listening today find |
| 0:43.7 | ourselves being dog people and a way to get into today's episode is to ask how far would |
| 0:49.9 | you go for a dog? |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:53.4 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:54.4 | When you say dog people, do you mean some sort of hybrid island of Dr. Maraud type monstrosity |
| 0:59.7 | or talking about dog efficient fans of dogs? |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, as mentioned, people who prefer dogs or people who prefer cats, we have yet to |
| 1:10.5 | ask our super producer, Casey Paggram, this question. |
| 1:15.6 | So I'd like to ask both you guys. |
| 1:18.1 | Noel, you strike me as more of maybe a cat person. |
| 1:21.5 | I am a fan of the movie Cat People and the accompanying Georgia Marauder soundtrack. |
| 1:26.7 | And I do like cats. |
| 1:27.7 | I don't know why. |
| 1:28.7 | They're a little less needy. |
| 1:30.3 | They're less work. |
| 1:31.3 | Is that what it is? |
| 1:32.3 | They're less work. |
| 1:33.3 | They're self-sufficient dogs while they do give you unconditional love. |
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