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LIAM WATCHING OLYMPICS

I am an Olympic fanatic. I love and watch every hour of every day of coverage. The winter Olympics are my favorite. The settings and background, indoor venues, equipment and apparel are a feast of sensory and visual beauty...snow, mountains, ice, fireplaces...and the cacophony of color in its hats and scarves and jackets of many countries

LIAM WATCHES ALL THE EVENTS

Four years ago the winter Olympics were held in Sochi. And there were the Sochi pups.  And it was Gus Kenworthy who rescued them. I wrote about them. Here is Gus's Instagram post with some of the puppies followed by the blog links for my LiamLicks stories from 4 years ago.

SOCHI PUPS

http://liamlicks.blogspot.com/search/label/Sochi

http://liamlicks.blogspot.com/search/label/Sochi%20strays%20find%20homes

and now
From USA TODAY:
Nearly four years after helping rescue Mamuchka and her litter from Sochi, Kenworthy knows his place.
Gus Kenworthy jokes he’s been superseded by Mamuchka, the dog, with his own mother.

“My mom is actually obsessed with her,” Kenworthy said. “She likes the dog more than she likes my brothers and I. She has a grandchild now. My oldest brother has a daughter, and between the daughter and the dog, she’s like, I don’t care about anybody else.”
Kenworthy became the most famous for rescuing strays from the Sochi Olympics, but several others brought home dogs from those Games. Snowboardcross star Lindsey Jacobellis rescued a pup, as did Amanda Bird, the marketing and communications director for USA Bobsled & Skeleton. Both named their dogs Sochi.
here is the story link
https://usat.ly/2nQ9yjb

Four years later Gus is at it again. The dog meat trade is huge in South Korea.
South Korea does not have a good pedigree on its treatment of dogs. Here is a description of what goes on
https://usat.ly/2o0EBc5
and requests I received

Gus and his partner visited a dog meat farm
Here is what Gus posted on his Instagram

"I was told that the dogs on this particular farm were kept in 'good conditions' by comparison to other farms," Kenworthy, 26, said. "The dogs here are malnourished and physically abused, crammed into tiny wire-floored pens, and exposed to the freezing winter elements and scorching summer conditions."

The farm Kenworthy visited is being shut down, and the newly-free canines will be brought to the U.S. and Canada and placed in "fur-ever homes," he explained.

"I adopted the sweet baby in the first pic (we named her Beemo) and she'll be coming to the US to live with me as soon as she's through with her vaccinations in a short couple of weeks," Kenworthy wrote of his new family member. "I cannot wait to give her the best life possible!"

MATT, GUS AND BEEMO

 Here is the story with photos of the dogs and the farm
 http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/gus-kenworthy-boyfriend-rescue-puppy-south-korean-dog/story?id=53324769

Gus did not win any medals this time around. We watched as he struggled.

He did not have to win a medal to be a hero.

We had to help. Liam was sad about his Korean cousins.

LIAM HELPS

Woof, woof