Dogs just wanna have fun: #2 Les Chiens de Paris

A busy little French tune for busy Parisien dogs: Chien (Saska & Helene Bohy)

Dogs everywhere love to spend time with their humans.

 The dogs of Paris are very happy in that way

And very busy.

They go nearly everywhere - shops, cafes, bistrots, bars, workplaces

Trotting along with their owner, waiting patiently while they chat

Or maybe riding on a motor scooter or a bicycle or in a car

Always well-behaved and on their leash or even in a little bag.

Shopping and socialising on Rue Montorgueil 
- a story everywhere you look, and les chiens are part of it.

For many years there was also a big problem with all these dogs -

The caca problem!

Too much chien-caca on the footpaths!

Paris has lovely parks large and small - but often dogs are Not Allowed.

 Now if you allow your dog to poo on the footpath and don't clean it up, you risk a 450 Euro fine. 
But of course, like all criminal activity, it still goes on.

Here is a lady walking her two lively dogs on Rue Saint-Sauveur.

And then ...

Oh la la! Not again? Clearly she is displeased - but she has her plastic bag at the ready! 

Merde indeed! ... but she will not get fined.

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Finally, we present the living cliche, the postcard moment: the actual French Poodle

 ... and truly this was in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, at the Champ de Mars. 

Next: Manny of Melbourne