We are protectors, guardians, entrusted with their care while they walk this earth.
Today, I feel a duty to commemorate her. Not out of nostalgia, not out of mere scientific curiosity—but out of respect, and for that [gu.ilt] that still weighs on humanity.
Because Laika wasn’t just an experiment.
She was life. A presence. Innocence offered to a stranger.
Her real name was Kuderzhavka, which means “slightly wrinkled” in Russian.
But the world knew her as Laika, “The Barker.”
She was a husky, half-terrier, picked up on the icy streets of Moscow. She was just three years old. She was chosen for her quiet, obedient, and resilient nature… as if these qualities could justify the doom that awaited her: to [d.i.e] alone in space.
On November 3, 1957, at 2 a.m., Laika departed aboard Sputnik 2.
The capsule contained food, water, and padded walls. But there was no plan for return. From the start, this journey was nothing more than a [de.at.h] sentence in progress.
Some say she [su.rvi.ved] for seven hours. Others speak of four days.
Alone all the time. Always in silence.
Suspended in a metal cage, as the Earth continued to spin beneath her—farther away.
It orbited 2,570 times around our planet.
And on April 14, 1958, the capsule disintegrated in mid-air. Consumed by [fi.re], by gravity, By forgetting.
Laika didn’t ask to be a hero.
She didn’t choose to represent science or the space race.
She was just a little wandering dog with eyes seeking affection—and a body transformed into a tool.
✨ That’s why, year after year, I continue to tell her story.
Because it reminds us that all progress is not [inn.ocent],
and that often our victories were written in the [su.ffer.ing] of those who couldn’t say “no.”
Laika, we haven’t forgotten you.
As long as someone speaks your name, it won’t be news.
It will be a memory. It will be familiar.
It will be a reminder of what we don’t need to repeat.
She was chosen because she was friendly and trusting…😞💔
Everything that we humans gonna use on ourself, we should experiment on us. No one else.
“would I be oki for my dogs be in that situation”…. Definitely NOT.
Be kind to animals live beings , because everything comes back , in love 🥰 for Laika ❤️
