Many New Yorkers have two pairs of shoes. Yes, it is not trivial to wear two pairs of shoes, especially strange shoes, black, pink or red that surround the feet, and, if it is a question of wearing two pairs, it is because the ‘we are dealing with dogs.
So let’s be clear: there are dogs outside of New York, no French town, country, or subdivision is exempt. And yet nothing, I mean nothing, can match the status dogs currently enjoy in the United States.
At the 9/11 Memorial, not far from where I am, the dog is entitled to his mini exhibit: the K9s – the name of the New York police unit of search dogs – these are the dogs that helped rescuers while clearing the rubble of the two twin towers.
But the dog has also accompanied the pandemic, because many Americans have adopted it – in France too – but, here, it is the “dog sitters”, the Baby Sitters for dogs, who sounded the signal for economic recovery. .
Because the question is not only to know that Americans are crazy about dogs, and particularly the “millennials”, the well-off city dwellers. The dogs I am talking about are not “patous”, these herding dogs, guard dogs, even dealer dogs, they are pleasure dogs, ornamental dogs, in a word statutory dogs. .
According to the magazine The Atlantic, one in two Millennials today in the United States owns a dog, which is a considerable number. For several tens of thousands of years, the dog has accompanied man, but there precisely, they are dogs detached from any utilitarian function.
In reality, the dog is now the ultimate statutory sign in New York and first of all because, in this abominably expensive city, owning a dog means that you also have room for the dog in your home, or else. first of all room for the dog. Not to mention that the dog will generate various expenses, from the “dog sitter”, which will take it out for you, to those funny shoes that a self-respecting dog must now wear.
New York is probably the only city where dogs sport the pavement well shod.
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