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Dog phenomenon in resource-rich countries (and the case for cats)

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One of the first things I observed when I started traveling internationally was the dog phenomenon. Here are some examples Dogs living IN the house. Not in the home but INSIDE the house. In Africa, dogs are for guarding houses otherwise they do not eat. Thieves break into your house and destroy or take anything? The dog goes. no second chances. Very tiny dogs. more than 20 years in and no one has answered that question satisfactorily enough for me. This year was the first time I saw one of them barking. they are in almost every house in Puerto Rico and man do they yap-yap at people walking by their owners' homes. If think I am lying see this  small dogs catalogue Dog clothes and I mean the entire shebang: coats, jackets, dresses, undies, jewelry, shoes. I had forgotten about that until 2012 when we moved to San Francisco temporarily I panicked for a moment when I entered a store looking for clothes for our son who then was 1.5 years old and all I could see were these teeny-tiny cl
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It is all about the money. Lost in Puerto Rico

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First of all, "Non hablo Espanol". Thank you ChatGPT for coming through for me once again. Yesterday after a full work day in a shared workspace in San Juan, I took an Uber to my near the airport AirBnB as I wait for my "I cannot wait" departure from US soil on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.  Using the "most reputable source of directions" to the AirBnB - the address appended to the property on the AirBnB website, I called my Uber, settled in, and for more security also followed our movements on google maps. after 20 or some minutes, Google Maps goes, "Tu-dum, you have arrived."  I thank the driver, haul out my stuff from his car, and bid him adios. that is where my story begins.  I looked around for the blue canopy which was supposedly unique to the AirBnB property, but nothing. I hurry into my AirBnB inbox and manually retype the address into google maps. Lo and behold, I am a good six minutes drive away. I have a 24kg suitcase, a backpack from outer
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