Dog shit all over the pavements here. It’s awful.
Although, I’m not sure thoughtfully putting in a black bag and tying it up in a fucking tree is much better.
We are dog lovers. We have a very old Jack Russell, female. Been with the kids since they were little. Not long for this world now, but she still has a quality of life.
Then we have two ‘doodles’, a labradoodle and a Bernedoodle. Both very social, both very soft and playful. The Bernedoodle retains the protective instinct of a Bernese Mountain dog.
He likes to watch the ‘homestead’ and will lay out on the deck in all weathers. When snow is falling he loves it. Super friendly and lovely to people. In the pack order of our three dogs he is bottom, and will let the others dominate him. He could easily take over if he wanted, but it’s not in his nature.
What is in his nature is to protect the home. We had a coyote sniffing around the other day and he has enough heft that it ran off when he confronted it. A coyote would easily kill our old Jack Russell and possibly hop back over the fence with her in its mouth, but the Bernedoodle is not having that.
PS - we have a large fenced property, but if they are out on a walk in public, they are never off the lead. Apart from if they go to a dog park for socializing and playing - there’s a couple of them around here, fenced areas, specifically for dogs, where they can be off the lead.
Edit:
The old Jack Russell is getting close to being in continent so needs to go out for a wee all the time. But we won’t let her go out alone, given wildlife around. So we have a command, “Watch Daisy” and the doodles spring into action to stand guard when she goes out for a wee.
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If your dog has had a shit
Pick it up and dog poo bag it
Take it home to your bin, cmon dog lovers be right
After all…it is your pet’s shite…
This little ditty was written on the pavement…
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The UK has gone bark raving mad! 
Of course we are “barking”, its the UK.
It’s raining cats and dogs outside my house this morning. Honestly, the English weather! Where is spring.
My Dad was going on about sheets of water falling yesterday. I would be basking in lovely sunshine if I didn’t work nights (the clocks changing messed me up as well).
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Wasn’t so long ago Sir Starmer was encouraging everybody to vote for Corbyn. Now, Corbyn is too dangerous to stand for the party he’s represented for forty odd years.
Regardless of your feelings towards Corbyn, Starmer is the worst kind of any-way-the-wind-blows, careerist, Tory-lite, fifth-columnist.
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The UK thread? Then yes. I reckon I could start a conversation about growing asparagus and we could add another 600 posts. Totally on topic too.
… and not one of them would have a clue what they were going on about!
Did I kick off the dog chat?
Or did someone catch @PeachesEnRegalia dogging again?
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Can I just add that cats are wankers?
We have one. He feigns cuteness so he can bite people and then goes outside to commit atrocities.
Interestingly, I do find Germany is a more dog friendly society. It’s very much the done thing to take dogs shopping and integrate them into day to day life. I’m currently in an office in Köln and there is a dog lying in the corner next to his owner.
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If you ignore entirely what happened between those two points, then yes I can see why you might think that…
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What happened?
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He got destroyed by an establishment terrified of a fairer society. He was subsequently cleared by the Forde Report, commissioned by Starmer, that showed that even Labour members used antisemitism accusations as a ‘factional weapon’.
I’m all ears !
(I’ve got white and green in my fridge , and it’s not cheap atm.)
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Oh , just Boris Johnson , Brexit , and the largest Tory majority in living memory.
I’m in the midst of an long standing argument with some true faith, no compromise, pricks in one of the Labour groups on Facebook about Starmer. It’s fucking wearying that the only threat to a Labour majority is idiots valuing the ideological purity above the pragmatic necessity of getting the Tories out. Basically the kind of people @Klopptimist thinks I am.
Before getting on to Corbyn, and why Starmer is refusing to let him stand, I want to address the ‘Starmer is a secret Tory’ thing.
Starmer is no more a Tory than I am, and it speaks to the (at times) raging idiocy of the radical left, that someone who was born to staunchly socialist, Labour supporting parents, has been active in the Labour Party since his teenage years, used to edit socialist magazines, and has been a member of a variety of socialist clubs and societies, is branded a Tory because they no longer have the luxury of the ideology that they enjoy.
I first came across the name Keir Starmer, while studying the McLibel trial at Uni - Starmer was the Barrister who stepped in to offer free legal assistance to the defendants in that trial.
Starmer is, perhaps to a fault, a cautious pragmatist. He believes that Labour have to rebuild their credibility following Corbyn, and regain the trust of people the party alienated. I believe closer to the election, as the manifestos take shape, Labour’s offer to public will feel a bit more Labourish, but with a sensible framework to it.
So Corbyn. This isn’t easy to say, because I love the guy. Voted for him five times (once as an MP, twice as leader of the party, twice for PM). But at this point he needs to just fuck off. His presence in the Labour Party and continued intransigence is damaging to goals he himself aspires to. He is 73 for fucks sake, and there was a clear pathway for a graceful exit, off to tend his allotment in retirement.
I don’t think he, or the people who still support him, realise how toxic he is. Outside socialist echo chambers his name is mud. This isn’t fair. It’s the product of a shameful witch hunt that had no basis and no justification. But it’s the reality of where we are now.
The Tory party, when cornered, will still invoke Corbyn to damage Labour. Because it basically works. As long as he is in the Party, Labour are compromised. Starmer really has no choice but to kick him out. A line needs to be drawn under the Corbyn era, and Labour needs to project that it is no longer that party. It can’t do that with Corbyn still rattling around.
Everyone needs to remember that our voting system is binary. The options before us are Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak. It is not anymore complicated than that. Which one do you want to run the country? If that is too hard, which one do you least want to run the country? Thanks to the absurdities of our voting system, if you don’t vote for Starmer, you might as well be voting for Sunak.
I think this coming election is of critical importance. There are thousands of people in this country who will not survive another five years of Tory Government, and certainly not a Tory Government emboldened by getting away with the last five years of economic incompetence, corruption and borderline fascism.
Put simply, Keir Starmer’s Labour may not perfectly align with my political views, but we don’t have time for ideological purity.
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You think the reason people who are not fond of Corbyn on here is because we think he’s an anti-semite? Jesus, only Tory supporters would ever believe that.
Perhaps we think so because when he was leader he acted more like a vegetable than a leader. Fence-sitting, useless waste of space. What’s happened since the War on Ukraine, which we probably couldn’t see at the time, is that he likely would have been dangerous if he lead the country.
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