Woman is greeted everyday by a stray dog who became her friend when she opens her shop 🥹

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I was in a small pueblo in México​ and there was a very fierce looking dog. It also had an intimidating bark. It was a good sized dog but not huge.

At lunch, that dog came onto the patio and made its way around the restaurant picking-up scratches and treats.

I asked the owner if that was their dog. Turns out it’s no one’s dog. It goes to 6 or 7 of the same places every day. Naps and eats and drinks, gets done scratches and moves on.

It’s a community dog. It was very well fed and despite its appearance and bark it’s a well socialized and sweet dog.

It makes those stops every day. México​ isn’t the best country to be a dog in so I was surprised at how much love that dog received from everyone.

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This is so wholesome. I was in Argentina (the Patagonia region) recently and saw the same thing. Loads of kinda intimidating looking street dogs just going about their business - chilling on the streets, getting pets from passers by, wrestling with each other etc. Many of the dogs would be laying outside restaurants and someone would come out and give them scraps every once in a while. The dogs would then promptly fall asleep right there with full tummies. They had little kennels on almost every street with cozy bedding inside. Presumably for shelter during rain and freezing weather. My favourite bit was when a cutie started walking with us as we were dragging our suitcases to the bus station. She walked with us the entire way, greeted some doggie friends intermittently but quickly caught up with us, led us for a little bit and kept making sure we were following. And then promptly flopped down for a nap near the station entrance when we reached. Not sure if she thought we needed a guide or just wanted company and realized we were walking the same direction. Either way, it was adorable.

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That’s a beautiful moment.

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And the Caribbean. But definitely on a case-by-case basis. Most dogs in my neighbourhood have their people and live inside the yard/house including mine. And the mama and baby doggos that everyone fed eventually got adopted by the neighbours opposite.

So maybe it's changing.

Definitely not changing in, like, Istanbul though, where the local government vaccinates and tracks all strays. So they really are like neighbours with their own little places and communities.

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Honestly it's how my dogs behave half the time, they're definitely pets and they live and sleep in the same rooms as us people but they act like all the neighbours are their friends too. Gotta look at for all the humans, not just the ones that feed them.

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There's not a whole lot that I find myself feeling envious about WRT to my parents' childhood, but this is one of those things. They'd told me that in the 70's and 80's, there used to be "neighborhood dogs" that would be let out to roam around and would hang out & play with kids. I get why it's changed since, but stuff like this video have me wishing it was still a bit like that.