Dog stories - Peru Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
It's true that once you get to the more first world metropolitan areas of Lima, you're not going to have a lot of issues with wild animals roaming around. But when you get towards the outskirts, the less developed, the more rural parts of Lima or to the south, during times of the year when female dogs are in heat, you're going to see up to maybe even a dozen dogs just running around following this female dog. They never messed with my companions or me, but you probably don't want to get in their way, especially when they're attracted to the pheromones or the hormones or the fertility of this female dog that they're chasing.
Video 2 Transcript
So I was bitten by a dog. I was up in one of the hills and I was walking down. We were about to start the walk down, well hike down, and a dog just out of nowhere came up and bit me. Luckily the tooth only grazed me, but I did have to get five rabies shots. They weren't in the stomach, they were in the arm. General advice for dogs, raise your arms up above your head. If they come at you barking, they're most likely not going to bite you. Also you can pretend to pick up a rock and like hold it above your head because they'll get afraid and kind of give you some space sometimes. Just don't be afraid, and also I know this is gutsy, but if you just call to them you know they don't respond really to whistles. If you call to them and they don't do anything, they're usually pretty peaceful dogs, but if they start barking then you know keep your distance.
Video 3 Transcript
As most other third world countries and stuff, there's a ton of dogs just everywhere. So I spent a month in Peru basically just helping this small community build classrooms on part of their school. And there was this dog that would just follow this one little kid around and come to find out this little kid had raised this dog ever since he was a puppy and so they've been best friends. But he would just follow the kid around. Anytime he lost track of the kid, he'd always just look super worried, wide eyed and just try to run around and try to find this kid and they were best friends.
Video 4 Transcript
I lived in Pachacutic for like four months and there were dogs everywhere. And whenever I'd be walking outside, they would be chasing us. So my friend and I, who I lived with at the time, we would just carry rocks and hold them up and the dogs would be scared, they wouldn't come near us. But there were a couple times where a dog would like run up to me really, really quickly and like grab my leg, scratch my leg, or like nip at my socks, which was like scary. But luckily I never got bit. I did have several friends though who did get bit.
