Perros locos

One of the things that really stood out to me when I got to Chile was all the stray dogs in the streets and elsewhere. Dogs aren't treated here the same as we treat them in the US and it's sad, but I've become immune to it. I no longer have the urge to pet every dog I see because they are all dirty and potentially diseased from living on the streets. They don't have other animals here that live in the city besides birds, so I guess the dogs are kind of like squirrels to them. I've been collecting some pictures of dogs whenever it calls my attention...sometimes in very strange places...and here are a few of the gems.

...sleeping in the middle of the street in Santiago

wearing little sweaters that people make for them because they feel bad

on the top of a castle with like a billion stairs in the middle of Santiago

came up next to me and fell asleep in a hole on the beach in Iquique

in the middle of the road in La Tirana

 off the highway on the way to Pica...a puppy in the dinosaur park

we gave him an alfajor because he was probably hungry...

on the roof?

running around the campus of the U of Concepcion

drinking from the fountain outside the judicial building in Conce

chillin by the fish market

ready to jump?

and the worst one...how did he get like that?