I still can\u2019t find an \u2018on this day\u2019 entry relevant to dogs. Why should I care about Kind John\u2019s luggage getting lost or that the Beatles played their first concert? I\u2019m thinking of making my own entries up. I thought something like \u2018On this day in 1977 Curly the poodle who was ironically named because of his straight hair, had his first \u2018perm\u2019 so that he wouldn\u2019t be teased so much.\u2019 Ok, so it\u2019s completely made up, but it\u2019s at least as interesting to a dog as the fact that King Henry Vlll added the title \u2018defender of the faith\u2019. Let\u2019s be honest, how can calling yourself head of the church so that you can justify your own divorce make you defender of anything other than the income of \u2018matrimonial lawyers\u2019?<\/p>\n
No more shall I blame some nameless \u2018litter lout\u2019 for the McDonalds packets you see in the hedge rows. No more shall I say that people are damaging nature and wave my paw accusingly. There we were, driving along, when we saw a crow collect a whole bag of McDonalds food from a litter bin and fly off with it in the general direction of a hedge row. You do have to admire the crow for a number of things. Firstly I couldn\u2019t believe it could carry something that must have been equal to its own body weight and still fly. Secondly, so much for the insult \u2018bird brain\u2019, it had clearly worked out that taking the whole bag was easier than carrying it one chip at a time, although it may just have been after a \u2018happy toy\u2019. Now what we really need is for crows to develop a concern for the environment and get them to take their empty wrappers back to the bin.<\/p>\n
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