In Mexico, nurseries are shut but doggy day care is open
Pooches are enjoying the pandemic. Shame about the children
AT 9AM ON a Wednesday, Gaby Rountree Antón waves goodbye to Mila as she is picked up to go to day care in Mexico City. “It has made her so independent, so friendly and so lovely with others,” Ms Rountree Antón gushes. She shuts the front door and turns to homeschooling her two children. For Mila is not a child, but the family dog.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “The dogs are all right”
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