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Belgraders

Living in Belgrade is not so easy. To be a true Belgrader you must possess the following qualities: speed, skill, patience, agility ...

All this and much more you need to survive all temptations you can expect from the, very often, brutal capital. Real Belgrade residents you can meet everyday on the streets, there are several thousands of them, they are Belgrade stray dogs without a home, general population known as - wanderers.

Some people pretend not to see them, and some, however, notice them too much and would most like they don't exist. To disappear.

They don't appear suddenly, according to some evidence, they have always been residents of this city - they roamed the streets looking for food, shelter, and little attention while Belgrade was under Ottoman empire.

It's never been easy to be a Belgrade dog, not a couple of hundred years, and even today. They are where they are "due" unconscionable Belgraders and survived with the help of some other Belgrade citizens. Many are trying to get rid of them, in one way or another, but they are still there - somehow they find their way.

Because they are true Belgraders.
(Jana Devetak - "Belgrade for dummies")

"Beograđani"

Život u Beogradu nije ni malo lak. Da biste bili pravi Beograđani morate posedovati sledeće kvalitete: brzinu, snalažljivost, strpljenje, okretnost... Sve ovo i još mnogo toga potrebno vam je da biste preživeli muke koje vam može zadati često okrutan glavni grad. Prave Beograđane možete sresti svakodnevno na ulicama, ima ih više hiljada, to su beogradski psi bez doma, široj populaciji poznatiji kao - lutalice.

Neki se prave da ih ne primećuju, a neki ih, pak, previše primećuju i najviše bi voleli da ih nema. Nisu se pojavili odjednom, već su, prema nekim svedočenjima, maltene oduvek bili stanovnici ovog grada - tumarali su ulicama tražeći hranu, sklonište i malo pažnje i dok je Beograd bio turski. Nikada nije bilo jednostavno biti beogradski pas, ni pre par stotina godina, a ni danas. Oni su tu gde jesu "zahvaljujući" nesavesnim Beograđanima i opstaju uz pomoć nekih drugih Beograđana. Mnogi pokušavaju da ih se reše na ovaj ili onaj način, ali oni su uvek tu - nekako se već snađu.
Jer, oni su pravi Beograđani.

(Jana Devetak - "Beograd za neupućene")