Its because they are actually trained.
Ask every European who has traveled to the US. Americans all seem to have >1 dog that they never disciplined or trained the slightest.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
525 points (98.9% liked)
Microblog Memes
11774 readers
2979 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
dog in question
That's just for Tony Dawg.
you mean Antoine le Chien
Well explained.
US dog: "Woof"
French dog: "Weauf"
"barque barque"
Ouaf!
Le weuf?
wrong
french dogs bark "oua oua"
Spelled "weauf" , pronounced "wo"
No it's wœuf. Singular is pronounced woof, but plural wœufs is pronounced wuh.
Une douzaine de, s'il vous plaît.
!GCSE French joke!<
I have a bichon frisse, which is a French dog. It means fuzzy bitch. And he sure is.
If you can step back cognitively and see it's your own pre-existing expectations, then yeah, I can absolutely see this. As an American, when I visited Paris, my preconceived notion of dogs in Paris sort of unavoidably meant, "my dogs, or dogs I know, in Paris." My dogs are reasonably well socialized for a suburban American introvert's dogs, but they would be an absolute menace in Paris.
They pull on the leash because they spend most of their outside time in the backyard or with their heads out the car window, so walkies is a special occasion, for good or for ill. They are obsessed with every new person until that person has moved on. Sitting calmly at a cafe has happened once or twice, but it takes a bit to get them used to it. One of them is a bit weird about new foot textures he hasn't dealt with. Everything about Paris is different from their everyday life, and much of it is different from my everyday life. To a certain extent, it would be the same in any pedestrianized urban area, but Paris is also so aesthetically distinct.
So, to see dogs just doing their thing, confident and happy, barking at neighbors from a 130-year old wrought iron balcony railing instead of through a cedar fenceboard, accompanying their owner for daily outdoor market shopping instead of being told they can't come this time because I'll be getting out of the car, or walking through that crushed-limestone surface Paris seems to like for their parks (unlike any city I've been to in the US), all of that endows the dogs with a certain "Frenchness" that will seem weird until you parse it. It's amplified if the owner's sense of style or affect strikes an American's eye, or even their subconscious, as distinctively French.
One of the greatest joys of my life is being able to take my dog out with me in public because he's very well behaved. Not perfect, but 95% there. The last 5% is the golden excitement over people and comes out when someone excitedly fusses over him (think leaning over him squeeing excitedly and talking to him in baby voice) and he forgets his manners and jumps up trying to hug them. If people act normal, he's completely normal, chill and well mannered. He goes with me to all sorts of places like the hardware store, craft store, the liquor store, and out to eat at various restaurants with patios. I WISH we had a culture around dogs closer to France, because I think dogs would benefit greatly from it. Instead of being left at home they could be out living lives with their humans. Unfortunately that would put greater responsibility on owners to train their pups. Instead, we just ban dogs from most places because it's easier for the businesses to not have to put up with entitled assholes and their untrained dogs. It's sad.
Are you sure it isn't like in the cartoons where the owners resemble the dogs and the dogs copy their owners' mannerisms?
Actually, yeah, it's probably just that.
.
Lemmy has great content, thanks to people like you, my friend
I think most dog guardians in the USA are just poorly prepared. Never been to basic obedience training, or further than that: urban canine training. Socializing the pup doesn't happen, so they freak out at the sight of another living thing. Leash optional when no one is looking. Or, even worse, the dog basically lives inside the kennel when the human is out, so it's more like a prisoner/warden relationship.
What a great write up
One of them is a bit weird about new foot textures he hasn’t dealt with.
The calluses, right?
I went to Paris once. I saw someone walking 14 dogs at once (I counted). Dogs were everywhere. I also saw zero doggie bags and hundreds of dog shits all over the pavement. The smell was horrific. C'est la vie
Thankfully it's not nearly as bad now than it used to
That's good to hear. I think I was there just when they started adding laws to prevent that kind of thing, but before anyone cared about said laws
The dogs in question:
"un je-ne-sais-quoi"
c'est ne pas un chien
^Gauloise
They probably attack anyone daring not to speak French with a ferocity straight out of hell.
Le woof
I think it's normal for dogs to bark at new things and trying to hump everything they like.
They seem to be especially well trained, they walk around without a leach no problemo. Swedish dogs must be restrained at all times (I'm swedish living in france).
It's true. It's one of the first things I've noticed when I first moved to France.
I haven't experienced this in person but i feel like it's absolutely know it if I saw it.
Maybe they chain smoke?
What she means is they respond to "Coucou!"
Well behaved?
It's like 50-50 around here.