haha yes, roof dogs!
There are 3 Dog Rescue groups here, run completely by volunteers and donations. They are always full to capacity and as you know, there are still plenty on the streets.
Mexico City is huge...well population that is. That's a crazy story about her uncle and the drive, but I feel bad that he was embarrassed about it; although I can understand why. There is no other smell like it, that I know!
That's how I feel in our neighborhood; everyone knows us now and we say hi and have short conversations in our best "spanglish", but I think we are liked here. The kids who work at the corner store, where there's no alcohol sales, gave us a beer and chit-chatted for a few minutes with us. He was almost done work and had them in the cooler ;) And the owner of the local 'beer store' a few blocks away gave us a couple of beers as we were walking by. We didn't have change, only a 500 peso bill, so he said no problem, pay next time. I was so pleased, seriously! Not for the free beer, but that we are beginning to be viewed as local. It was a very nice feeling!