Ecstatic, excited dog is fed by Ikram Korkmazer, butcher in Turkey

Ikram Korkmazer has become slightly famous because of his Instagram page. He is a very kindhearted person who likes to feed the stray cats and dogs who come to his shop. I have written about him before (see link below). That’s unsurprising because what he does touches the hearts of many people. And it pleases the minds and stomachs of many homeless animals 😎. These are the community cats and dogs of Turkey. They are quite common. It is a different relationship between companion animal and human to what we are familiar with in the West.

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Dog is beside himself with excitement on being served up with some meat from İkram Korkmazer a butcher in Turkey
Dog is beside himself with excitement on being served up with some meat from İkram Korkmazer a butcher in Turkey. Screenshot.
İkram Korkmazer
İkram Korkmazer from his Instagram page.

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He decided to start videoing his exploits which is totally understandable because you get these amazing reactions from the animals. And in this video, we see a dog almost beside himself with joy and excitement. He’s obviously very hungry and is about to get his dinner on a plate; served up to him by his personal waiter. It’s great.

Note: This is a video from another website which is embedded here. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it.


In the video you can see the model of a cat at his deli counter. That was made on the back of a video that became quite famous of a cat asking for food as if they were a human customer.

He also has TikTok and YouTube pages. You wonder whether his kindness might start to become a burden to him. It doesn’t at the moment but I can imagine too many cats and dogs coming around his shop looking for food. That is the way it might work out if there are too many community animals.

The truth is that there should be no community cats and dogs in this day and age. Not really. Although they make charming videos the back story probably is not so charming. These animals should be in caring homes with good owners. This dog should be on a lead being walked down the pavement outside his butcher’s shop. The dog shouldn’t have to come up to the shop asking for food all on his own. Domestic dogs are meant to live with human beings. That is the raison d’être of companion animal domestication.

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