2026年6月16日、パト・ブランコ市議会が、市の動物一時収容施設に、住民が10年世話した地域犬「カン・オレーリャ」の名を付ける条例を可決した。16 June 2026 — The town council of Pato Branco names its animal shelter after a stray dog the neighbourhood had looked after for ten years.

The municipal council of Pato Branco, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, gave second-reading approval on 16 June 2026, at an extraordinary session, to a bill naming the town's animal transit shelter, the Casa de Passagem Animal, after a dog called Cão Orelha. The measure is Bill No. 37 of 2026.

Cão Orelha was a community dog that residents had cared for, on their own initiative, for about ten years. "Orelha" is the Portuguese word for ear.

On 4 January 2026 the dog was beaten with a club in the Praia Brava district of Florianópolis, in the neighbouring state of Santa Catarina; the injuries were severe enough that it had to be put down.

The bill was proposed by councillor Thania Caminski, of the Progressistas party. Attaching the dog's name to the shelter, she said, was meant to strengthen the town's animal-welfare policy and its appeals to the public. The vote was not recorded.