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| George, Constance,William and Meg (reinacting Ben Hur) |
It stopped after I crossed the zebra crossing and an unsmiling 16 year old police support officer approached me with a kind of bored look on his face. He asked me if I carried a poop bag and I said I did ( but wasn't going to get it out of my pocket) and then proceeded to tell me about a Flintshire Council initiative where he and his colleagues were giving out a poop bag carrier ( in the shape of a bone!) to every dog owner they could find.
I curbed the impulse to point out that he would be better employed chasing ragamuffins in Rhyl (I also wanted to mention that his partner had parked illegally on the zebra crossing) but kept silent and listened politely for him to give me his spiel before I was presented with several "bones" ( which I gushed enthusiastically about).....
Plastic policemen ! what a job!
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| Gloria with the trusty antibacterial spray covering her wounds |
Last summer a runner duck got herself wrapped up in some netting and within seconds they were on her and effectively scalped her before I could intervene.
Today they picked on the benign Gloria, (they had cornered her inside the turkey house) and centred their attack , as usual on the back of her neck. Luckily I heard Gloria's plaintive cries and rescued her before any major damage was done. Not before giving Jane and Lizzy a Sharpe couple of kicks up the arse
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| The aggressors (butter wouldn't melt) |
We have a neighbor who walks his two dogs, and carries a little bucket of sorts and a handy dandy gadget that is called an Easy Pet Poop Scooper, with a long handle and jaw scoop, he just plops it over the offending material and clicks the handle...walla in the bucket.
ReplyDeleteThe village bobbies remind me of the ones on Last of The Summer Wine, always looking for non-confrontaion and a butty and cup of tea.
I'm proud of you not pointing out their short-comings :)
Those chickens...you were right in giving them a swift kick up the bum !
Have a great weekend,
Jo
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Poor Gloria. I'm glad you rescued her.
ReplyDeleteLiving in the country, the dogs run loose and most of them come to our yard to do their thing. I don't know if it has some dog meaning or not. I am about ready to start shooting them in the butt when I see them squat! The neighbors dogs stroll over, do their thing and stroll back on home. I am tired of it.
ReplyDeletePoor Gloria, I suppose it's that thing of the fittest surviving, but, geez. I hope she gets better.
Those birds are brutal!!! I'll get hubby to have a word with the chief about the young whippersnapper - they are a different breed these days. xxxxx
ReplyDeleteBone shaped poop holders... That has to have some strange Freudian something going on there. Or probably, it's just me. And yes, sometimes it's just better to go along to get along...
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John, take a pair of toenail clippers and square off the beaks on those 2 troublemakers. You don't trim them too close, not enough to hurt them, just enough to give their victims a chance.
ReplyDeleteThe poor benign Gloria! Rings a bell that word benign. You used it in describing moi! Gloria came to mind John?! lol
ReplyDeleteI once yelled at someone who didn't clean up after their dogs and was asked if I was the 'Poop-Police.' I told them that in fact I was! :-)
ReplyDeleteGlad you were there for Gloria!
Haha. Sounds like the young man did not appreciate the humor of his work this morning.
ReplyDeleteLizzy and Jane look like troublemakers. Is Boris kept with them? Do they try their antics on him? Just curious.
I would have thought Boris has a bit of a dark side when it comes to Chris, maybe it's a turkey thing?
ReplyDeletePatronising little police person - they do seem to be getting younger and younger!
Did I hear you were serving turkey sandwiches to anyone who stops by..? Cook those turkeys and be gone with them...
ReplyDeletePoor Gloria ~!
Yes, it's very important to carry a doggie bag to pick up dogs doo doo...Your village bobbies are bored and they wanted something to do.. You were an easy target.
Have a great day..ta ta for now from Iowa..:)
Hopefully that "support police officer" is a volunteer and unpaid.
ReplyDeleteHope springs eternal...
My Dad (RIP) a local copper for 30 years had no time for what he called 'hobby bobbys' but then in his day you could get away with clipping the local yobs round the ear 'ole and be thanked by the parents for doing it!
ReplyDeleteThose turkeys sound like real Gow (grumpy old women) !!
Poor Gloria... I have a mean old Marsh Daisy who is a real bully :(
Jane
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How funny John--I am sure the police are quite busy passing our their bone bags :) LOL We have a couple of terrorizers here at Verde too. They act so innocent when we catch them in the act of meanness. I am going to try that little kick in the arse myself :) LOL
ReplyDeletePoor old Gloria, I'm glad you got to her in time.
ReplyDeleteCops don't do 'regular policing' anymore - thats left to SWAT teams and Road Warriors who react 'after-the-event'!
ReplyDeleteSighhhh! Oh for a handful of good old fashioned Constable Plods walking the beat with their size 12 boots ready to apply to rear end of potential miscreants!
Community support officers giving out boners to passing dog owners! Remind me never to visit North Wales...And what were all those dog leads tied to when you snapped that aerial photo? Trelawnyd = Gomorrah!
ReplyDeleteDon't you just hate santimonious idiots!
ReplyDeleteHope Gloria survives, although I can't help thinking that Lizzy and Jane are fulfilling some basic instinct of getting rid of the weakest link!
Did you have a look at the award V and I have passed on to you?
Ha! Love the police portion, it was too funny. That Jane and Lizzie - they should hook up with my Kessa, Lucy Lou and Sarah. They'd get along great. Mean girls at their best.
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There just always has to be a bully or two. The goats can get quite nasty like that as well. We have actually had to sell a bully or two over the last few years.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when animals pick on weaker animals.
ReplyDeleteThat includes humans...
Well, at the police station they probably didn't know what to do with the new 16 year old recruit, so they assigned him to poop patrol to keep him out of trouble.
ReplyDeleteJohn, How in the world can you hold onto 4 leads, with dogs attached, keep them separated and in good walking order, AND take a photo of it to boot?! My hat is off to you! If I tried to walk 4 dogs, I'd be lying ham-strung and hog-tied in the middle of the zebra walk, bleeding profusely, while happy, leashless dogs cavorted around the town. I used to try walking 2 Jack Russell Terrorists and we'd go about 10 ft, untangle, go 5 ft, untangle. Finally gave up and walked them in shifts. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThose aggressive ones may cook up quite nicely.
ReplyDeleteLizzy and Jane have the look of, "who us?" Tee hee.
ReplyDeleteOh those birds can be downright nasty at times can`t they?!
ReplyDeleteThe police better should have an eye on murderous turkey hens :-) - though I have to say: in Berlin (which I like otherwise oh so much) you cannot make a step without your eyes glued to the ground, otherwise... In no other town in Germany I saw that, very often in the middle of the path, intentional, one comes to think! It's a real nuisance, but even then not a problem for the police (and I think the dog-owners should be convinced - their poor pets are innocent!) Your two turkeys seem to aim for Thanksgiving?
ReplyDeleteWhen we were on holiday in Wisconsin we went for a tour round a farm. On it they were raising turkey chicks and the woman said they had to keep them under a red light as if any of them spotted a drop of blood they would cannibalize the poor wounded creater.
ReplyDeleteNasty little buggers.