this is from https://www.reddit.com/r/ussr/comments/18sf3uk/the_red_riviera_kristen_ghodsee/
So, she took her husband and 3 year old daughter to visit Bulgaria. She got travel documents for her two basset hounds and included one in her book. Looks like a passport.
So, she says in US bassets are adored maybe due to the hush puppie shoe ads. In Bulgaria they have never been seen and people view them as the mutant spawn of Satan. Children scream and grandmothers curse when she walked the dogs. Seriously. That was in her book Lost in Transition. A very personal book about her and other people.
It was suggested she walk them in a soccer stadium outside of town. First 3 times went well. Fourth time she let them loose only to find sheep grazing. The bassets went nuts chasing the sheep. The shepherds went nuts at the devil dogs. One connected with a thrown rock but she was able to stop the shepherd with the axe.
She finally stopped the shepherds by explaining that they were American dogs who had never seen sheep. The shepherds had never met an American much less a mutant American dog. Plus, what kind of dog has not seen a sheep? It took a half hour to explain it all.
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