I Totally Taught My Dog To Beg..??

My question is- how can you not afford to house, feed and dress yourself and yet you can have a perfectly healthy, collared dog???  I don't really get the beggar thing and how people can be that destitute to have to beg on the street.

In Paris, I saw a woman who was limping and half bent to the ground.  She had a bandage around one leg and was struggling to walk.  As we went passed in the bus, she was making her struggling way up the bridge, toward the other end.  As the bus passed, the tourists all walked around her and away and then- SHE STOOD UP STRAIGHT AND DIDN’T LIMP- almost stomping her way to the end of the bridge with some heavy ‘how dare they not give to me’ attitude!!

I saw another guy in the underground, clearly homeless, taking a handful of random tablets…

Later, I saw another woman with her polystyrene cup sitting atop a “Vans” box, to give the cup some height.  Probably not the look she had intended.

I think the really hard part is when the beggars are prone on the ground with their arms out in front and their foreheads sitting on the pavement!  There were heaps of those ones, but what brings them to this situations and how …..??  I know this is probably a bit naïve, but how can you lie and beg like that and think it is better than making eye contact and trying to maintain some sort of pride???

The smarter beggars were outside the Churches.  How can you  not go into a Church and be all pious and holy and then come out and go ‘so totally NOT giving my spare money to these poor wretches!! 

It was actually pretty yuck, because we are just not use to it and the worst thing is some of them must have been real but the Vans box and the lack of hobbling put you off offering spare dosh to any of them.