Moscow's strays

Categories: random

Date: 19 January 2010 21:42:33

While I'm on a bit of an article-posting roll, this is a much less depressing article about Moscow's stray dogs which I found via a tweet from wiblogger World Without End. I was really interested in the observation about how the strays all looked the same, it got me thinking to Romania where I think that's also true.

Here's a picture of the stray that attached itself to the little block where I stayed in Sibiu - you could see his cousins all over town, and very very rarely saw stray dogs that looked different:

He barked like mad every time I came back to the flat for about a week, then when he knew I was there to stay he stopped barking and deigned to allow me in. He started again when HD came to stay though! (I bet our neighbours loved us when we arrived in Sibiu in the small hours. He was a great burglar deterrent though, for a little dog he had serious vocal chords!). The little old lady next door who kept staring at me while I had breakfast until I got blinds for the kitchen used to feed him scraps (despite the protests of the downstairs neighbour who didn't want to encourage him). I used to see him wandering along Str. Balcescu with the tourists and locals, but he always came back to our yard without fail. I think he was a cross between a "guard dog" (his primary trait I think) and "beggars" of the article.