A girl and her pup on the bus.

Back in October, Jan from This German Texan posted about Germans and their dogs.  I read it, filed it away mentally, and then forgot about it until I got here-  and started to see the same thing.  Germans take their dogs **everywhere!**  The picture to the left is from my daily bus ride-  that little fellow was just snoozing away the ride.

Last week, Michael from the office took me to a traditional Bavarian restaurant.  At one point someone walked into the restaurant with a little yappy dog, and there was a round of solid loud barking between that dog and the one four inches from my feet-  the gentleman to my left had brought his very large, very relaxed dog with him and the larger dog was so quiet and well behaved that I didn’t even realize there was a dog there until the interaction with the newer smaller dog.    And this was the kind of dog you could put a saddle on.

Yeah, Jan was right.  Germans take their pups everywhere.