Female and male, big and small, menacing growlers and annoying yappers, the roof dogs of Oaxaca are on the job patrolling rooftops in the city and in the countryside. They are so ubiquitous, San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca is the setting for an illustrated children’s book, Pipiolo and the Roof Dogs.
But sometimes one has to ask, “Is it real or is it Memorex?”
What do you think?
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View From Casita Colibrí 
I pass this guy on Constitution every morning. I think it is stuffed. Sometimes people bark at it to see if it’s real. Crazy!
Yep, stuffed, I think. I’d love to see someone barking at it!!!
I think it is real!
Shannon, thank you so much for my
beautiful top! You went to alot of
trouble to find that for me! I want you
to know how much it means to me!
Love always,
Louise
Louise,
So great to see you! It was fun picking the huipil out and so glad you like it. As for the roof dogs… dog #1 is alive and dog #2 is stuffed! However, the latter does get moved around occasionally.
Abrazos, Shannon
Roof dogs.. a GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRand nuisance.
Gringo joke: What do Mexican dogs say?
Answer: rroof! roof! roof! roooof!
Great pics, as always, but dogs don’t belong on roofs! They often live up there in all kinds of weather and are lonely and bored, plus sometimes fall off and get badly hurt.
Freeing the rroof roof roof roooof dogs is the subject of Pipiolo and the Roof Dogs.