fatboystu wrote:
what he said...............something that annoys me more is dog owners that don't clean up their dogs s**t! anyone caught not cleaning it up from public places should be fair game for a swift kick in the knackers or taco!!
Whilst I agree with you, and speaking as a person who has a coat with at least one pocket full of plastic bags, the day I see a cat owner walking the streets after their pet with a pocket full of plastic bags ready to pick up their poop is a day that will be worthy of note in my diary.
I think the situation was summed up pretty well by someone on the Sunday Brunch program today when speaking about toads and how they, and birds, have something of a conflict with cats in many gardens - cats have never been fully domesticated and still retain a strong hunting instinct even though most of them don't need it, dogs are very much pack animals and most dogs will easily accept the subversent role in the pack (and the ones who don't are the dangersous ones), hence they are happy for the pack leader (you) to do the hunting and food gathering - thats the way it works in our house anyway, for the dogs and the other humans in it.
Just to throw another spoon in the mixer, anyone who happliy lets their dog chase a cat with no qualms is not keeping the animal under control as per their legal requirements, and somewhere down the line will find themselves sitting in a vets surgery facing a big bill for some pretty wicked scratch marks down their doggy's face.
