As promised, some photos of the extraordinarily happy stray dogs of Bequia, the northernmost island in the Grenadines chain.

There was more to it than love at first sight, of course.

To be honest, when I first got out of the cab in downtown Kingstown, here in Saint Vincent, late on Saturday afternoon, I had to keep a firm grip on my positivity. The streets were littered with smashed glass, odd smells, feral-looking dogs that...