Perros Callejeros

I realized I never wrote about the street dogs! They are EVERYWHERE! And they’re not all scruffy with long shaggy fir either, some of them are really cute. I kind of have a feeling if people have dogs as pets they just took one in off the street. The street dogs here are cool tho. I’m not even a dog person and I don’t mind them at all, they’re so chill. They pretty much just lay around all day and dig through the trash for food. They rarely bark when you walk by and I‘ve only seen one major dog fight since I’ve been here, so they are pretty well behaved in my view. The only problem is, like I noticed in Rome, there is shit everywhere. So you always need to be watchful of where you step and kind of come to expect being overtaken by an aweful smell every so often when you are walking around outside.

I must admit though, the callejeros have been growing on me, and I’m really not a dog person. I feel bad for them sometimes, they just lay around all defeated like, probably dying of thirst. I have noticed when people are watering their dirt they feed the dogs with their hose. They water their dirt because sometimes some grass might sprout. But I think the main reason is that if they don’t, it gets really dusty and the wind would blow dust everywhere. But back to the street dogs. They’re harmless! Sometimes they will join me for a run, but rarely. They are much more content laying around all day, ahhh the life!