Dogventures in Italy

Some of you know I went to Italy a couple weeks ago. (hee hee) I want to share with you my experience meeting Italian dogs and cats, and of course seeing the o-so-famous Pisa and Field of Miracles (well, the Field of Miracles was new to me).

This was a wowie zowie!! The cab driver let me off in an alleyway a block away from the Field of Miracles (which consisted of The Tower of Pisa, The Church, and the Baptistry), then I walked to the main street, and VOILA, there was the TOWER OF PISA standing before my very dog eyes!! It was an amazing site I tell ya! Here I am in front of the famous landmark:

This is also in the Field of Miracles (the Church is in front, and the Baptistry is in the back):

Here is the front of the Church. When I had my picture taken here, some guy made fun of me standing for a picture. Phooey on him I say!:

Here is my new Italian doggie friend I met at the Field of Miracles. The way this little guy ran and barked, he reminded me of Casper:

This next set of pics is in Vernazza, where I lay my head at night. Vernazza is heaven for dogs and honorary dogs (i.e Fu Fu). While humans would work during the day, doggies would run around during the daytime, making new friends all day and taking strolls. The doggies were very friendly. Not a bad dog in sight! Kitties were strays, but even I would say they were okay and friendly to me, the doggie tourist.

My dog house wuz right on this plaza, the best place for a view of the Mediterranean sea. Sorry the pics of me are so blurry. I wonder why that happened????!?!:

Okay. This is weird. Seems that SKWIRRELS are ALLOWED in Vernazza!!! Ivy, we must send all skwirrels to Vernazza!:

Here are friends I made. Yes, there were cats involved.

This pal of mine was waiting for his human to come back from his rowboat:

Here is a Cat in a Boat, not a Cat in a Hat:

This cat has an amazing view of Vernazza:

Cat waiting for its human to come home (this cat was the only cat that was not a stray):

The highlight of meeting new friends was meeting this Volpino Italiano dog. Turns out the Volpino Italian is a great ancestor of moi, so you could say American Eskimos and Volino Italianos are relatives and are basically the same. (Side note: Japanese Spitz dogs are also basically the same.) The human that was with the Volpino told me I was a Spanish dog. Now, why is it that so many strangers always try to tell me what my own ethnic background is???:

A whole adult litter of cats:

These pics were taken in Cornelia. The brave dog wuz sitting practically in the middle of the street. I kept yelling at him to come over to the side, but, no, he didn't listen to Hana!

Such a tiny car, just my size, but my dad still said he's not lettin' me drive:

OK, now tell your humans that this is a not so pretty picture. They might want to skip this pic. This is a pic of a glorified toilet hole. It's at a restaurant. Yuck! I just could not use this toilet and held "it" until I could find an appropriate toilet:

At the internet cafe in Vernazza, there are computer kitties keepin' warm:

In Monterosso, there was a statue of St. Francis and a wolf. Below the statue was a real live cat. Maybe that is some kind of significance:

In Vernazza, there was a cat apparently on a motorcycle tour of Italy:

Wonder if the Italian humans celebrate Howlaweenie? Well, here is the answer in the picture below. 99% of the human kiddies dressed up as witches. Apparently doggies have no fun on Howlaweenie. In this pic, do you see a purple frilly fur thing and a black hat on the ground? Looks like it wuz the bad witch from the Wizard of Oz when she melted. Must have been difficult to dress up as a melted witch:

This doggie must have belonged to Mr. Phantom of the Opera:

In Vernazza, when I was at a cafe, I noticed a poodle just strolling along. Well, there was a tour bus that came along, and the poodle got in line with the humans, and he actually boarded the bus!! I'm not even sure if he was bringing a human along on the bus ride. Oh, what a life doggies have there!

In Genoa, when humans are shopping, they leave their doggies at a play area where another human plays with them. Is that not the life??!!?!!:

And, lastly, here is a picture of some cruise ships in the Genoa harbor. I think these two cruise ships cater to dogs because the outside of the ship looks like so much fun and have animals on them:

Well, that's it for the slideshow. Hope you enjoyed it!!