Stray dogs are depressing

A friend I used to have once said that he couldnt believe this smart American girl had gone to La Paz to work with stray dogs. She was designing a system to try to get them off the streets. In the middle of the all the poverty, he thought this was a waste of a wonderful mind.  I have mixed feelings about this; I dont really have an argument as to why work with street dogs rather than street kids except that that would be true of everything we do. Its evidence of our deep routed developmental mind set that you have to work on things that are clearly related to poverty and development. One thing I now have my mind set on is that stray dogs are really depressing. Its terrible to see all these dogs, so faithful, so still looking for an owner, living on the streets abandonned for doing nothing. Its so mean! (I sound like my niece)