Pets

The Saudis do not seem to have pets in quite the same way as we do in the UK. The well off Saudis keep camels in the same way that we keep horses, they race them and breed them. Saudis are also apparently keen on birds of prey but I haven't seen much evidence of this. I have seen trill and whiskas food in the supermarkets so I assume that they do keep birds in cages and pet cats, but the one thing that they don't seem to do is dogs. This doesn't mean to say that there are no dogs here. There are millions of them, all wild and roaming around scavenging. This causes me an massive problem as we have a large and at times extremely noisy bunch of feral dogs living just outside the compound at the back of our house. When it cools down at night they fight. Last night I was woken at 2.30 by some huge dog fight that went on for at least 40 minutes. It is horrible if you are awake and inevitably the fight ends and you are left with the sounds of a dog or two out of the rival packs whimpering as they have been injured, which is really horrible. On the nights that they don't seem to have a mass fight then you can guarantee that there will be one or to dogs who spend half the night calling to each other so you still end up not having a good nights sleep. Luckily we are getting close to having to turn our air conditioning on again at night as the temperature here has really heated up in the last week or so. Once the AC is back on the drone of that in the house cancels out the noise from outside so normal sleeping will hopefully resume.