Walking your dog and racial profiling
We have ongoing issues about where to walk your dog, how to clean up after him, where to throw it afterwards. Tomy has been told by one of the “park attendants” that shows up in our park periodically that Kimbo cannot walk there, and he threatened the dog with a stick. He has been told by a guard outside one of the apartments that he can’t take Kimbo on the public street. All of this peculiar, in a place where the stray animals are (obviously) going anywhere they want. The boys mused as to whether there might be a law that says your dog must be walked only in certain areas. I said it is not beyond the realm of possibility that such a law could exist in India. The boys think the guard was singling us out as white - - he wasn’t giving the same instructions to local Indians that also walk their dogs there. I spoke to some Indians; they indicated that they patently ignore any such comments from guards and parking attendants. So maybe we are being singled out because we are the only ones that would actually listen.
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