Today (my last) I was going to sit around in Friedrichshain waiting to get pictures of Berliners walking their dogs off the leash. I noticed over the past two weeks how well behaved dogs in Berlin are. I can't figure it out. The dogs and their owners just saunter down the street, the dog a few feet behind. The dog never runs out into traffic, it doesn't chase other dogs. It simply follows obediently behind its owner. Joon and I saw this repeatedly.
The breed of the dog has nothing to do with it. Nor does the breed of the owner, as far as I can see. Here's a punk I caught with his dog near Alexanderplatz. It turned out to be the only photo I took. I decided that if someone caught me in the act of surreptitiously photographing people walking dogs, well... Haven't these people already put up with so much secret surveillance over the past century?
