Athens · Syntagma Square

SausageΛΟΥΚΑΝΙΚΟΣ

The riot dog of Greece. Gassed, beaten, kicked by riot police — and he never once switched sides.

Posted on Bitcointalk: Oct 7, 2011.
Dogecoin: Dec 2013. Do the math.

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The legend

A stray who out­ranked every politician in Greece

When the debt crisis broke Greece, the people took Syntagma Square — and a ginger stray took the front line with them. Cafe owners fed him sausages, so Athens named him Loukanikos. Sausage.

From the December 2008 uprising through the great anti-austerity strikes, he was at nearly every riot in Athens. Always ahead of the crowd. Always barking at the police, never at the protesters. Tear gas canisters landed next to him and he barked at those too. Riot cops kicked him; he came back the next strike.

He made the front page of nearly every newspaper in Greece, ran on TV around the world, and closed out 2011 featured in TIME's Person of the Year issue. Not bad for Dog No. 1842 of the Athens stray registry.

The archive

Caught on camera

Free-licensed field photos of the man himself, shot in Athens by Jean Housen.

Mural of Sausage in Psyri, Athens: the dog crowned, with All Dogs Go To Heaven painted beside him
The shrine — Psyri, Athens. "All Dogs Go To Heaven." Mural by SMART, N_GRAMS & MARTINEZ. This is the face on the token.
Loukanikos barking on the front line of a protest in Athens
Loukanikos in action, Athens. Photo: Jean Housen / Wikimedia Commons (free license)
Loukanikos standing in front of the evzones presidential guard in Athens, 2009
On duty in front of the presidential guard, Aug 2009. Photo: Jean Housen / Wikimedia Commons
The receipts

Memed by Bitcoin OGs before Doge existed

October 7, 2011. Block height ~148,000. Bitcoin trades around $4. Deep in a Bitcointalk thread — among the same crowd shipping the very first altcoins that month — someone posts Sausage:

bulanulaHero Member · Merit: 500
Re: deleteOctober 07, 2011, 09:50:05 PM
Hey, I think you will agree that this ( news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/sausage-the-riot-dog-of-greece ) is me LOL nice one could not avoid posting it.
Cheers,
a dog that learned to type

→ 26 months before Dogecoin launched.
→ 2 years before "doge" was even a meme.
→ Sausage is the original crypto dog.

Riot log

Service record

Field footage

See him work

Athens, June 2011 — front line of the anti-government protests.

euronews, Oct 2014 — the farewell report. The same clip that ran worldwide.

The creed

Why he matters

Never switched sides

Doge was a family pet. Sausage was a soldier. In every recorded appearance across six years of riots, he only ever confronted the police — never the people.

Fought the banks IRL

Bitcoin was born against bailouts. Sausage physically showed up to the anti-bailout riots and took the gas. No dog has better ideological alignment with crypto.

Crowned by the streets

No owner, no pedigree, no handler. Athens fed him, named him, and painted him with a crown. A community dog for a community coin.

On-chain

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