--- title: Stray Dogs From Winter Olympics City Sochi Rescued in Florida description: They both get gold medals in cuteness canonical: https://time.com/52287/sochi-stray-dogs-florida/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-07T20:52:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:35.959Z og:title: Stray Dogs From Winter Olympics City Sochi Rescued in Florida og:description: They both get gold medals in cuteness og:url: https://time.com/52287/sochi-stray-dogs-florida/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stray Dogs From Winter Olympics City Sochi Rescued in Florida twitter:description: They both get gold medals in cuteness twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Two of the Stray Dogs From Sochi Have Found a New Life in Florida by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 7, 2014 8:52 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 7, 2014 8:52 PM UTC Two stray dogs who managed to avoid[ being culled](http://time.com/3290/sochis-stray-dogs-are-biological-trash-says-the-guy-in-charge-of-culling-them/) from Sochi’s streets ahead of this year’s Olympics have found a new home in sunny Florida. Representatives from two animal-rescue organizations — Russia’s [LAPA](http://www.lapauk.org/en/) and Florida’s [ARNI Foundation](https://www.facebook.com/theARNIfoundation) — picked up the pups in Orlando last week. Their names are Austen and Honey, and they’ll be staying at ARNI’s headquarters in Daytona Beach until they find a permanent home, central Florida’s News 13 [ reports](http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/4/4/sochi%5Fdogs%5Fnow%5Fin%5Fce.html). They shouldn’t have trouble finding long-term living arrangements, because look at them! Look at how cute they are: The pooches have already faced quite a journey. First, they took a 20-hour car trip to Moscow before boarding a flight to Orlando. But they’ve been welcomed quite nicely in Florida, and ARNI founder Nikki Linn said plenty of people had expressed interest in adopting them. Sixteen more dogs from Sochi will be arriving at the foundation in the coming weeks expecting love and sunshine and piña coladas, so we hope Florida is ready to deliver. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/52287/sochi-stray-dogs-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/52287/sochi-stray-dogs-florida/"},"headline":"Two of the Stray Dogs From Sochi Have Found a New Life in Florida","datePublished":"2014-04-07T20:52:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:35.959Z","description":"Animal-rescue organizations from Russia and the U.S. picked up two Sochi-born pooches named Austen and Honey in Florida last week. The dogs managed to avoid any harm during the Olympics","url":"https://time.com/52287/sochi-stray-dogs-florida/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","Winter Olympics","Sochi","Florida","2014 Sochi Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/52287/sochi-stray-dogs-florida/","name":"Two of the Stray Dogs From Sochi Have Found a New Life in Florida"}}]}] ```