TEN - Dogs and other birds

You notice the dogs here.
There are lots of them, smallish and brownish.So far they are mild and quite. Seldom barking. They lay about, they come onto the beach and recline under the beach beds. I wonder who feeds them, since they do not seem extremely thin or uncared for. Only when we went on the bus to Candolem, which seems a poorer part, and we walked about, there were scruffy looking dogs sleeping in shallow holes at the side of the road. I get the impression the dogs scoop out a little shallow pit to fit their back quarters into, and then presumably this is their own home territory.
The sides of the roads are not made up, just red stones and rubble or sand.
Yesterday we were having a late lunch snack at a bar near the road. Several bulls and cows passed by, as they do. One of these stopped at the gate and pushed her nose into the opening, staying in a determined manner. The waiter shooed her a bit. Then he came back with some naan and fed them to the cow. He said: She does that every time, comes in the morning, the afternoon and the evening.
The cows are small, dark or piebald, and with thin fur. They too, like the dogs, seem very mild and placid. Some of them have calves with them. And some are not cows, they are bulls.
One evening, on the bus, I noticed through the dusk, walking on the opposite side of the road, a grey elephant. She had a keeper, and a man walking behind. Otherwise she blended into the murk - she had no lights!
Crows are in abundance. They have grey heads like ravens, are small with huge beaks. The cawing is incessant as day goes by. I think they must be in such large numbers because of all the litter from bars and hotels, it is piled up frequently. Unfortunately there is a lot of litter at the back of the beach too, and you see numbers of plastic water bottles everywhere, along the shore line, in the bushes.
Other birds seem not very numerous, you hear them in the early morning, but they are fighting a loosing battle with the crows and the developers.