This is the sort of experience with stray dogs that I like
to read about. This blogger/photographer, Lester Picker, visited Sri Lanka and
posted about the “considerable number of dogs” he found everywhere. His blog
starts with the typical attitude of seeing a “feral dog problem” but his final
paragraph reads:
“None of the dogs I saw were aggressive in any way.
Instead, they sometimes come up to you, tail between their legs, looking for
scraps of food. Most will adopt a family and just hang out around their homes,
if they are in a rural area. In towns and cities, the dogs will hang around
parks or in front of shops. People do not seem to mind at all and never once did
I see a person shooing a dog away. Peaceful coexistence ala Buddhism.”
This is the more open-minded view of stray dogs in
tropical areas I wish more people would take. It’s not always so peaceful and maybe
he stills thinks they are a problem but these traditional village dogs that
have not been badly treated and therefore are not aggressive to people are a
great advertisement for others of their ilk. And this is just what most
visitors would see if they opened their eyes more.
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