Well, if you go to Trinidad or Cuba or Mexico...where life is more relaxed and regulations are fewer...you will see lots of the local dogs walking around freely everywhere, socializing with each other and the people, and that's pretty cool. Reminds me of old times. I used to go to this little cafe in Cuba, sit and talk to friends over a glass of rum and coke and eat fresh made food that was REAL food, not fast food. There were two little dogs that came to that cafe every day too, from somewhere nearby. They would hang out there, watch the people go by, and occasionally get lucky and score a scrap of food that fell on the floor.

Now admittedly, you see a lot of starving and desperate dogs in those countries too. That's the way it is down there. But I like the easygoing way life just flows naturally in those tropical countries. It's very relaxing and good for the soul.

They are, in many ways, freer people than we are...though not necessarily in a political sense.