Ragged dogs tell a story. A lot of different stories. There are books about lost dogs, books about found dogs. There are books about stray dogs and any number of books that talk about the life of a street dog. This week, our creativity prompt is a picture of a stray dog in Cuba.
This dog was roaming the grounds of a free Internet Library in Cuba. The Internet Library was interesting too because internet service costs $10 per month. But the average salary is only $30 per month. This particular Library that we were at was also an arts center and a regular library. There were few people looking at the books and more people waiting in line to log out a laptop to use at the internet cafe. More people were sitting around outside using the wifi on their phones.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Barks
Looking at this picture, you might imagine that the dog is a street fighter who doesn’t want any company. But you would be wrong. He shared his lot with roosters and a peacock. Such an odd combination of animals to be together.
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There are numerous books and movies that feature dogs. Did you see the recent A Dog’s Purpose movie in the theater? It was warm, funny, happy, sad and then happy again. The Book’s author, W. Bruce Cameron has other novels featuring dogs, including A Dog’s Way Home about an abandoned dog who forms a bond with the person who rescues him. When they are separated by 400 miles of Colorado wilderness, this dog looks for his way home. The Art of Racing in the Rain is told from the dog Enzo’s point of view. Get ready for the tissues on this one, it had me crying throughout.
I have such a hard time with sad dog stories, photos or ads.
I do too. I picked this picture because although he looks ragged, he’s living in peace with different animals
It goes to show how our pets have a great life! Both my husband and I loved that book, Racing in the Rain!!
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Yes. My husband had 4 cats, most adoptees. One had previously been feral living in an abandoned barn with other cats. It’s amazing the life of leisure and luxury that he lived after that. Although he still skulked around as if he thought another cat or animal was going to jump out at him anytime.
Dogs are so loveable aren’t they Jennifer? I know my husband would love one but it isn’t practical to our lifestyle at the moment. The dog in Cuba looks pretty laid back especially with the other animals that he shares the street with!
Yeah, that dog was pretty laid back. He wasn’t skittish with all the tourists walking around. And I don’t know how any dog can just sit and ignore roosters and a peacock.
I recently blogged about the stray we adopted. There’s so much work that is being done for them, but so much more to do.
I’m so glad you adopted a stray because there are too many. When we’re in a place where we can have pets again, we’ll go to the shelter to find our next pet.
My heart beats for dogs, I couldn’t imagine living without a dog. There are so many sad stories about street dogs and about badly treated pets in general. But I can see a great progress happening in human’s conscious when it comes to animal protection, although it is still a very long way to go. I would always rescue rather than buying any animal.
I so agree with you, only rescues for our family. My sister used to only rescue pit bulls because they are such loving and protective dogs when they are treated right and not trained for sport. People were afraid of pit bulls, but she wasn’t.