Dog gone it!

There are dogs everywhere here - big dogs, cute dogs, mean dogs and just plain ugly dogs. Dogs behind gates - dogs in laps - and dogs in the street - there was even a dog that decided to come to the meeting the other night! It walked right up the centre aisle and on to the stage. Of course there was a titter that went thru the congregation but the speaker never missed a beat - just made the comment öh the little dogs want to hear too¨and carried right on! It took a while but the attendants finally decided to chase him away. Quite funny!

The dogs on the street get fed 3 times a week - Rubbish days! Rubbish is collected on Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday nights - you just put your bags out and after the dogs have had their fill (and humans have checked it out too) rubbish is usually spread all over the place so someone has the job of coming round and cleaning everything up and then the rubbish is collected. Strange system but it works I guess!

The one thing I notice about there being so many dogs is - that there is not that much dog doo on the street. Of course there is some but you would think there would be heaps more - I don´t know where they do their business but at least I only have to watch for pot holes and rocks on the ground and not dog doo!

You will notice in the picture a chappy having a siesta on the sidewalk - more likely drunk as a skunk - I thought you would be interested in one of the regular sights we see. Once from the bus we watched two guys lift this dude away from their garage - they just moved him aside. When we came back the same way 2 hours later, he was still there - flat out on the ground. It´s a very sad sight I must say!