For a corgi named Loyd, living in Kyiv isn’t such a dog’s life.
Loyd is the star of a promotional video about Kyiv, published on July 29 by the city administration’s tourism department.
In the video, Loyd serves as a guide to Kyiv. The naughty, English-speaking corgi escapes his owner to show the viewer around town.
“I’m going to show you the best city in the world! Follow me, my long-legged friends,” Loyd says in the narrator’s voice.
The corgi leads the viewer through several sights in Kyiv: Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Sofiiska and Poshtova squares, Andriyivsky Descent and the picturesque new pedestrian bridge.
At the end of the video, Loyd is picked up by a police officer on an alley of Shevchenko Park and returned to his owner.
The city’s tourism office previously published dozens of video guides with human actors but it’s the first time a dog took central stage.
It will likely become their most popular video: just four days after uploading, it had 14,000 views on Youtube. Earlier videos with human actors got from 5,000 to 19,000 views.
Loyd the corgi “controlling the film process” of the new promotional video about Kyiv, in which he stars. (Loyd the Corgi / Facebook)
Loyd also has a Facebook page administered in his name by the owners. There are pictures of Loyd in Kyiv and photographs from the set of his guide video.
