One of the loudest sounds if you open your windows in Bucharest is the sound of stray dogs barking. Seriously, it sounds like a kennel. Apparently there are over 100,000 stray dogs in the capital. Often times there are as many stray dogs around as there are people. The amount of strays in the city is yet another byproduct of the communist city center restoration, in which many people lost their yard and were forced to turn their dogs out into the street. While to many Romanians they are a nuisance, a large amount of them also consider them community dogs and feed them. One person told me that the dogs have learned to work this system and have multiple people that feed them every day. This explains why many of them appear (too) well fed. Strays do not seem to be the exclusive property of Bucharest, while less in number Targoviste also has more than its share. When I was at the train station, there were about ten dogs wandering around the platform alone.
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