Dogs

Okay, I'm going to do bite-sized chunks of blogging to make up for not blogging in a while.

I'll get around to talking about the Shanghai trip I just took, but... not quite yet.

This one will be about dogs.

There are a lot of dogs in China. And they're mostly outside. Well really, everyone is outside, and that includes the dogs. But they seem to prefer the small, "ankle-biter demon dogs" (as Josh says- I do not agree). A lot of them have underbites, so they're probably shitzus/mutts of some kind. Not the prettiest dogs, but they're all friendly. None of them bite or bark. They just dawdle around (usually without a leash) and sniff things.

If they're not small white fluffy things, they're German Shepherds. But their attitudes are the same. They walk around and sniff, and wag their tail if people come near. We've seen a handful of other big dogs (like labs) but it's usually only German Shepherds and tiny underbite dogs.

We nicknamed one of the drink lady's dogs.. Underbite, of course. But two days ago we learned the dog's real name: Niu Niu. [nee-yo nee-yo] Niu Niu can do a "hand-shake" sort of trick. If you lift your foot near her foot, she'll put her paw on it. It's really adorable, and I think even Josh has softened to Niu Niu and her awful underbite.

(I'll try to take a picture of her in the future.)