Ministry of Emergency Situations no relation Vladimir Putin
Early life
Konni, a black Labrador Retriever and whose full name was Connie Paulgrave, was born in 1999. According to Steven Lee Myers, "she was said to be descended from a Labrador once owned by Leonid Brezhnev." She was also to be trained as a search and rescue dog at the Ministry of Emergency Situations near Noginsk, where in 2000, she was presented to Vladimir Putin as a gift by Sergei Shoigu. Putin would teach her "five basic commands: down, heel, sit, go, and bark". Konni would become his favorite pet, serving as what Putin described as a consultant during his own "bad moods". In 2003, Putin's security detail stopped Konni from following him into a meeting with journalists, resulting in her expressing dissatisfaction by barking loudly and refusing several orders by Putin to come to him as the meeting progressed. That same year, shortly before the Russian legislative election, she gave birth to eight puppies, all of which were given away.
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