Earlier this year I got my first dog, Charlie, who is an elderly Basset Hound. I had been thinking of getting a dog for some years but where I lived in Scotland was a very busy road and I was worried about safety. Charlie is a rescue dog who had been left in kennels for over a year by his previous owner. I take him for a walk every day and this has made me unpopular with some people in my village in Hungary. Charlie himself is quiet and harmless enough but he sets off the other village dogs barking. Most people have a dog but they are kept chained up outside as guard dogs rather than pets. Nobody else ever takes their dog for a walk. I have been shouted at several times but mostly people just glare at me and do not reply to my greeting. Before I got Charlie everyone I met when walking around the village would either initiate or respond to a greeting.
I wondered if I am likely to encounter such hostility in Croatian villages?