A great start to the New Year
This morning I take Rocky for his morning walk in the local park. We almost get all the way round without incident. Then he spots one of the parkies he doesn't like and charges towards him. Unfortunately, the parkie starts to panic and waves his pick-up stick around which Rocky interprets as a threatening gesture. It is almost like a scene out of a Buster Keaton movie as they both dance around. He radios for back up claiming he is being attacked. A passing police car stops and the parkie hops into it. A short while later plod approaches me and tells me to stand still. I ignore him and continue to walk towards home. He asks me if I am going home. I state that I am. He then states that someone will be around later to deal with both me and Rocky. I have my breakfast then pop along to the internet cafe.
There should be a law against hostile parkies. However, I expect a case will be tried to be made out that Rocky is a dangerous dog under the Dangerous Dogs Act or that I need a ASBO to keep him under control.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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Whit the fock whis that? Anonymous? ?????????????????????????????
Dyou want me to set me cat onter ya?
John, I sympathise. Some years ago, I had a beautiful female German Shepherd. She was a very calm dog, happy around kids, never bit me or any of my family. When cars or people used to come up our drive, she would run over to investigate. If she didn't instantly recognise the person she might bark a bit, but you never got that sense that she was getting ready to attack. But one time a man delivering the phone book overeacted to her presence, and smacked her across the face with one of them. Just smacked her across the head - pretty darn hard. She promptly bit into his leg a little. There was all this police fuss, and various threats made by this man. In the end it didn't come to anything, but it's such a stressful experience, made worse by the fact that people so often don't know how to behave around dogs.
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