After more than a week in the Croatian capital, I am quite sure of my observation from the very first day of this visit: the city is crawling with bulldogs. Some are small and some are large. Some are white and some are black. Some wheeze and some grunt. I know next to nothing about this canine line, but there must be bulldogs galore. And all of them are the rage of Zagreb right now. The trouble is that I cannot figure out what makes these hideous dogs so popular at this particular juncture. Loyalty? Tenacity? Brutality? Whatever it is, the new fashion is most unbecoming. I can only hope it will subside by my next visit. Given the speed with which fashions come and go in the capital of Croatia, this one may well be gone and forgotten by this fall.