Ice the Tourist Dog in Lamego
Ice the Dog turned three years old sometime in May, but he still gets called fofinho (cute but even more diminutive), like he’s still a cachorro (puppy)… let’s see how long that lasts.
Some small children recoil in fear at the sight of Ice, a medium-sized dog, but most are cheerfully exuberant and want to meet him. Either their parents have to restrain them, or they’ve trained their kids to ask first.
This is where I get really confused, because from their little-kid voices, all I hear is this:
“Cãozinho! … fofinho! … [fazer]… festinha?”
And then they look at me expectantly. They’re waiting for me to answer, except all my brain can parse is the diminutives (because that’s all I ever seem to hear) and the verbs fall away, leaving me with this thought:
“You want to have a little party with my dog???”
April 14, 2017
Album: North Central Portugal [Easter 2017]
