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trip report
Jim and I are back from a 10 day work-related trip to France.
I'll pick up Cubbe from her boarding kennel shortly. I saw lots of off-leash dogs negotiating the traffic-filled Paris streets quite nicely. My heart skipped a beat each time, but I witnessed no tragedies. The dogs stopped (restes) and crossed (allez) at each corner with no particular precision but no horrible screaching of brakes either. There was the happiest, waggiest, black lab working as a customs inspector at the airport when we got back. This was a cause for some concern as I had chevre and sausage bought at the duty free shop which I had no reason to believe was legal to import. So each time she came around doing the waggy sniffy thing, I minded my manners and smiled at her while making no effort to bend down to say hello. I figured there was no reason to put the backpack closer to her level while Jim waited for the checked bags. We did get away with it, but I'm sure I'd make a terrible criminal. ("What! Sausage? How did THAT get in there?") Apparently this dog was trained for illegal drugs, not assaults on the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (I've decided I don't care for Beaujolais no matter how stylish and recently "est arrivee" it is.) --Lia |
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Julia Altshuler wrote in
news:EUnwb.289397$HS4.2596369@attbi_s01: Jim and I are back from a 10 day work-related trip to France. I'll pick up Cubbe from her boarding kennel shortly. I saw lots of off-leash dogs negotiating the traffic-filled Paris streets quite nicely. My heart skipped a beat each time, but I witnessed no tragedies. The dogs stopped (restes) and crossed (allez) at each corner with no particular precision but no horrible screaching of brakes either. Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles? Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. Sounds like a nice trip! Terri |
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Julia Altshuler wrote in
news:EUnwb.289397$HS4.2596369@attbi_s01: Jim and I are back from a 10 day work-related trip to France. I'll pick up Cubbe from her boarding kennel shortly. I saw lots of off-leash dogs negotiating the traffic-filled Paris streets quite nicely. My heart skipped a beat each time, but I witnessed no tragedies. The dogs stopped (restes) and crossed (allez) at each corner with no particular precision but no horrible screaching of brakes either. Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles? Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. Sounds like a nice trip! Terri |
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Julia Altshuler wrote in
news:EUnwb.289397$HS4.2596369@attbi_s01: Jim and I are back from a 10 day work-related trip to France. I'll pick up Cubbe from her boarding kennel shortly. I saw lots of off-leash dogs negotiating the traffic-filled Paris streets quite nicely. My heart skipped a beat each time, but I witnessed no tragedies. The dogs stopped (restes) and crossed (allez) at each corner with no particular precision but no horrible screaching of brakes either. Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles? Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. Sounds like a nice trip! Terri |
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Julia Altshuler wrote in
news:EUnwb.289397$HS4.2596369@attbi_s01: Jim and I are back from a 10 day work-related trip to France. I'll pick up Cubbe from her boarding kennel shortly. I saw lots of off-leash dogs negotiating the traffic-filled Paris streets quite nicely. My heart skipped a beat each time, but I witnessed no tragedies. The dogs stopped (restes) and crossed (allez) at each corner with no particular precision but no horrible screaching of brakes either. Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles? Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. Sounds like a nice trip! Terri |
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Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles?
Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. I had heard this, but I went to Paris this summer and it didn't seem any worse in that regard than NYC or SF. So maybe it's the scoopermobiles. |
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Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles?
Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. I had heard this, but I went to Paris this summer and it didn't seem any worse in that regard than NYC or SF. So maybe it's the scoopermobiles. |
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Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles?
Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. I had heard this, but I went to Paris this summer and it didn't seem any worse in that regard than NYC or SF. So maybe it's the scoopermobiles. |
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Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles?
Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. I had heard this, but I went to Paris this summer and it didn't seem any worse in that regard than NYC or SF. So maybe it's the scoopermobiles. |
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The pooper-scoopermobiles might be what Jim and I dubbed "elephants."
It is a machine about the size of sit-down lawnmower but a different shape and with a long vacuum hose that the driver could manipulate to pick up garbage. They don't have the pick up after your dog laws that we have in major cities here. Perhaps if I lived there that would bother me, but on vacation, one looks up at the magnificent architecture, not down in the gutters. They have a mechanism for flooding gutters to clean them that works apparently. We visited friends in Nevers which is 2 hours south by train. I exclaimed over the pony rides for kids in the park, but my friend said she didn't like them, that the messes the dogs make are bad enough. She has a 5 year old she can't take to play on the playground. (Lest you think she's being ridiculously fastidious, she's not. There's no fresh clean grass for little kids without looking down to inspect all the time.) I posted the dog related part of my trip to this group, the fabric related part of my trip to the quilting group and the food related part of my trip to the cooking group. If any of that interests any of you, ask, and I'll post off topic here. I could also wax eloquent about art and architecture and metros if y'all like. Oh, and Cubbe was glad to see us. She's such an aloof dog that I was delighted she planted a big surprise kiss on my nose in front of the vet tech who'd been taking care of her. It was like telling the vet tech "See? We're not crazy for loving this dog." --Lia dogsnus wrote: Did you see any of the famous pooper-scoopermobiles? Mark Shaw used to tell of his time in Paris and the scoopermobiles. He also said in the morning, long before the scoopermobiles got out there, the streets were deadly with doggie bombs. Sounds like a nice trip! Terri |
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