This may be a little off topic but here goes. It seems like in the US there are little pockets of animal friendly areas and towns. Could it be that because our society is so quick to sue people etc. that businesses especially our wary of having dogs around? and all the problems that come up with aggressive non-socialized dogs? I have many friends with guide dogs and they have frequent issues with aggressive unsocialized uncontrolled dogs in public. I don't know any blind people in Europe, I wonder if they have the same issues? I'm not sure how many people use guide dogs over there but it would be interesting to compare. I also think that Americans are very fickle, they like something for a while then they don't. They get a tortoise for while then they decide they're bored with it.I do agree many other European countries take better care of their animals than we do, and that's a sad thing, because animal care should go 100% everywhere