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thenewgreen · 4638 days ago · link · · parent · post: City of Strays: Detroit's Epidemic of 50,000 Abandoned Dogs
My wife and I honeymooned in the Dominican Republic. It was strange. We stayed in this gated complex of luxury hotels while outside the walls real people existed living in pretty extreme poverty. Inside the gated complex you were stuck eating at posh (expensive) restaurants -that our newlywed budget didn't really support, or at the one Pizza Hut they had.
I wanted to go outside the gates and discover the real Dominican. I talked my new wife in to taking an adventurous stroll outside our barriers. We only got about 20 paces before there was a rotting dog corpse on the sidewalk and two strays lingering over it. The stray dogs were so thin their ribs were bulging out their sides and they just looked miserable. My wife started crying immediately. It took a while to console her, she is a huge animal lover. We never left the gates again. I ate a lot of Pizza Hut that week.