Romania has dogs the way some countries have cats

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For the first several days, we saw no cats: but there were small, quiet dogs prowling around the edges of public spaces, curious but wary, not unfriendly.

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Later I discovered that this was yet another illustration of how much the regions of Romania vary. Suceava has cats. And Sighisoara has dogs who bark, in chorus, at some certain hour of the night.