Not so dog friendly

So the one thing Kelly (the dog) and I noticed when hiking the trails this weekend, is that many Hong Kong people, although very very impressed with the small and fluffly and purebred, do not go so much for the rough and tumbly, playful, shepherd mutty type dog. The Hong Kong mutt is called Tong Gau, and throughout our hike people would move quickly aside with a squeel and a horrified: "Gau!" And sometimes they said with equal horror: "Gaai!", which I think might have been for me, equally mutty, clumsy and undiginified.