dog in question

US dog: "Woof"

French dog: "Weauf"

The dogs in question:

If you can step back cognitively and see it's your own pre-existing expectations, then yeah, I can absolutely see this. As an American, when I visited Paris, my preconceived notion of dogs in Paris sort of unavoidably meant, "my dogs, or dogs I know, in Paris." My dogs are reasonably well socialized for a suburban American introvert's dogs, but they would be an absolute menace in Paris.

They pull on the leash because they spend most of their outside time in the backyard or with their heads out the car window, so walkies is a special occasion, for good or for ill. They are obsessed with every new person until that person has moved on. Sitting calmly at a cafe has happened once or twice, but it takes a bit to get them used to it. One of them is a bit weird about new foot textures he hasn't dealt with. Everything about Paris is different from their everyday life, and much of it is different from my everyday life. To a certain extent, it would be the same in any pedestrianized urban area, but Paris is also so aesthetically distinct.

So, to see dogs just doing their thing, confident and happy, barking at neighbors from a 130-year old wrought iron balcony railing instead of through a cedar fenceboard, accompanying their owner for daily outdoor market shopping instead of being told they can't come this time because I'll be getting out of the car, or walking through that crushed-limestone surface Paris seems to like for their parks (unlike any city I've been to in the US), all of that endows the dogs with a certain "Frenchness" that will seem weird until you parse it. It's amplified if the owner's sense of style or affect strikes an American's eye, or even their subconscious, as distinctively French.

I think it's normal for dogs to bark at new things and trying to hump everything they like.

It's true. It's one of the first things I've noticed when I first moved to France.

Le woof

Its because they are actually trained.

Ask every European who has traveled to the US. Americans all seem to have >1 dog that they never disciplined or trained the slightest.

I went to Paris once. I saw someone walking 14 dogs at once (I counted). Dogs were everywhere. I also saw zero doggie bags and hundreds of dog shits all over the pavement. The smell was horrific. C'est la vie

I have a bichon frisse, which is a French dog. It means fuzzy bitch. And he sure is.

I haven't experienced this in person but i feel like it's absolutely know it if I saw it.

Maybe they chain smoke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLucbNRaFgs

What she means is they respond to "Coucou!"

Well explained.

They probably attack anyone daring not to speak French with a ferocity straight out of hell.

Well behaved?

It's like 50-50 around here.