long-time readers here know of my love for the dog laika
some recent news about her:
Fortunately, Laika’s legend has lived on. There is, of course, a semi-famous surf rock band from Finland called Laika and the Cosmonauts, whom we love dearly. Laika also makes a cameo on the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, which was erected in 1964. But now Russia has decided to give Laika a permanent statue of her very own, near Moscow’s Military Medicine Institute
Telstar Logistics: A New Monument for Laika, Russia’s Heroic Space Dog