Saturday, 16 September 2023
Mutts
One of our regular café haunts has window seats looking out onto the road with a row of shops on the opposite side. Not scenic but it’s a handy café with a relaxed atmosphere and it serves good coffee.
On some mornings, if it 's early enough we’ll see a woman come out of one of the shops to wipe the windows and the black panelling beneath the windows. It’s a small clothes shop so presumably she is the owner just opening up.
One Sunday morning when the little clothes shop was closed, a middle-aged couple strolled along the opposite pavement with a dog on a lead. The dog stopped to cock its leg up against the black panels of the clothes shop while its owners casually waited for it to finish before strolling on.
Now we know why the clothes shop owner has to wipe the panelling on the front of her shop.
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7 comments:
"Just taking the dog for a walk, dear"
NO, you are really taking it out to mess up somewhere other than your own back yard...
A sprinkle of Jeyes Fluid or powder under the black panels might do wonders...
Dave - that's it, we even see signs of it close to primary schools.
DJ - it should help. Maybe I ought to nip across the road an suggest it.
"Maybe I ought to nip across the road an suggest it."
Do!
My parents disliked dogs and their owners for their lack of consideration and downright antisocial behaviour. Probably why we children were never allowed pets, not that I ever wanted them as a youngster. Nowadays, there has been a social pressure to clean up after your dog, but there are still a lot of bzstards about - all those black plastic bags, tied up and left in hedges, verges and sometimes my front garden. Just let me catch them once and they'll be straight into the canal!
My father toyed with the idea of procuring a vial of essence of leopard. He said dogs would sniff that and run off in terror.
James - I'll give it a go.
Tammly - we were allowed pets and Mrs H and I have owned a couple of dogs, but looking back it wasn't a great idea once we'd moved away from suitable open spaces. I don't know if it's still available, but zoos used to sell dried lion poo as a deterrent.
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