This dog is always in exactly the same place outside the butcher's shop. Really strange that he never moves and amazingly he kept really still for my photograph. Good dog! The shop is in a small side street in Carnoles, part of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.You can enlarge the smaller photographer to see what a friendly chap the butcher is - not sure his clothes would meet hygiene requirements in some countries tho.
Yikes - look at the size of those paws. Wouldn't want him treading on you when he grows up!
ReplyDeleteI think i got food poisoning looking too close at picture of butcher though :-)
Like the meat behind the glass, your pooch here will not be moving a muscle. Your thumbnail on the portal had me fooled!
ReplyDeleteThis has got to be a badly stuffed dog. I hope.
ReplyDeletecuuute... Maybe he or she is not very young. Cute and lovely anyway. About hygiene requirements, France is a strange country. Whata amazed me, teenager in Paris was to see people to hold the baguette (bread) high under arm and to take metro (underground) touching -their baguette- tons of people clothes and under ton of people breathe. By the way I did the same and I'm still here as millions of French people :-)))
ReplyDeleteInteresting photo! The butcher looks friendly enough!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. I thought the dog was going to be in the case!!
ReplyDeleteI think it's fantastic that this butcher has such a calm, stable, loyal, unmovable and entrenched guard dog at his meat counter!
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the UK TV ad for the "Butcher's Dog" - jumping up at the window?
ReplyDeleteIt is probably on you-tube if you haven't seen it.
I'm sure that a lot of people do a 'double-take' when they walk by the shop. He looks real!
ReplyDeleteJe pense qu'il n'aimerait pas avoir un vrai chien. Pour l'hygiène je pense comme toi :-)))
ReplyDeleteVery witty, the dog guarding the roast chickens. He or she wouldn't bother them. It's not at all hungry. In fact, it's stuffed.
ReplyDeleteButchers in the US generally wear white, or at least a large white apron. Our health departments would frown on this gentleman.
I have another very loose interpretation of theme day tomorrow. It will be posted late tonight, US Central time.
But he does have a real dog, doesn't he?
ReplyDeleteHA! Love the sense of humor there.
ReplyDeleteOh, Jilly, you have no idea the heart palpitations you gave me. When I saw your title, and then the meat in the cabinet, and before i scrolled down (I had the pic open in a minimal wondow), thought for one horrible moment, that this butcher sold dog-meat, as in slaughtered dogs.
ReplyDeleteI lovew the very live dog in the pic.
CUTE! LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe butcher looks nice to me, and as hygienic as our butchers.
In the small photo it looks like a real dog. If there were a real dog at this shop, it would be a lot fatter than this one!
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