Statue of Žorik in Tallinn, Estonia

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Žorik was the best-known dog in Tallinn for most of his roughly fifteen years alive, at a time when free-roaming dogs had already grown rare in the city. Born in 2007 in Kalamaja, once a working-class fishing district that has since gentrified, he lost his first owner as a puppy and spent most of his life on the streets nearby. The vagabond dog drifted between the harbor and the parking lot outside a small shopping center, where residents kept him better fed than some of them ate themselves. Lo