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Dogs are people too
It may be true, and then it may not, but apparently dogs can fly into Frankfurt airport in the passenger cabins of commercial Emirates and Lufthansa airliners. All that’s required is a muzzle and perhaps a valid passport. The only place in the world we are told that such happens, and we’re eagerly awaiting the spectacle of dogs sitting up in seats beside their owners, choosing X-rated movies and tucking into the schnapps. Do puppies get priority rights to the basinets by the best seats at the front of the cabin?
If the French have a reputation for loving their dogs, so too the Germans. Everyone has at least one and, dressed for winter, they go everywhere; restaurants, trains, exclusive department stores and, yes, even our exclusive champagne bar. The homeless even receive higher social welfare allowances if they have a dog or two in tow.
These dogs are not just fluffy little carpet-slippers, the neighbor here, and we are five floors up, has a big brown hairy thing resembling a grizzly bear which wanders around and comes in here if the door is left ajar.