The French do certainly love their dogs. They are welcome in restaurants, buses, food shops...you name it. They are quite well-behaved in these places and it was fun in Carqueiranne to see some dogs wandering on their own like dogs in our neigbourhood used to do when we were growing up. The French haven't quite got into the idea of cleaning up after their dogs but the street sweepers were out several times a day in our little village so it wasn't a big problem. I did have to laugh at this device the village had installed on the beach for dogs to do their business...a "villepropre" or "clean city". We never saw any dog use it.


"Villepropre" dog toilet