Talking shite
I am delighted to see that all our current problems are solved.
Obviously the Virus is beaten, the homeless crisis is solved, Brexit is a mere memory and it’s time for our politicians to turn their attention to the really important problems that blight our daily lives.
Senator criticises ‘phenomenal’ amount of poo in Irish villages
This somehow conjures up images of great steaming piles of ordure on every corner. Or maybe she is complaining about horses dropping their potatoes everywhere? Has someone driven a herd of cattle through her village?
No. Apparently her overriding concern is dog shit.
Now I live near enough to an Irish village [which presumably comes under the umbrella of her rant] and I honestly can’t say I have noticed any dog shit anywhere.
We have our dogs all right. The grocery shop has two little yappers that yell at me out their windows when I pass. The is the hotel’s aged and overweight Labrador who wanders around greeting people with indifference. There is the little fucker who ambushes me by suddenly going into attack mode when I pass his garden. There is the Irish Wolfhound who regally pads his way through the village on a regular basis. Then there are all the dogs that people have on leads. There are dogs everywhere. But little or no sign of dog shit.
Maybe the dogs in the village have a different diet? I have never seen anyone pick up a turd. I have never seen a turd bag hanging from a bush which is apparently a decorative feature in our friend’s area. If Penny decides to have a dump [which she normally reserves for my front driveway] I just casually kick it into the gutter to be flushed by the next rain.
Doherty also said she was in shock to hear that there were 800,000 dogs in the country but just 217,000 dog licences.
In shock? The poor woman is badly in need of a Valium or five. God help her if she ever comes up against something really shocking.
I confess I am a little surprised myself. 217,000 dog licences? I don’t think I have ever seen one of those, yet a whopping 217,000 apparently have. What are the licences for? Does the gubmint contribute towards feeding and caring for my dog? Does a gubmint official turn up each day to bring Penny for a walk? Did I get a rebate for the hundreds I shelled out recently when Penny got very ill? Actually I did but that was from insurance that I pay for. What exactly do I get for buying the dog licence? Nothing! Sweet fuck all. I shell out money and just get a worthless piece of paper in return. Do they think I’m mad?
Frankly Doherty is a bit of a hypocrite. There is indeed massive quantities of shite in this country and nearly all of it spoken by politicians.
Get rid of them and our lives would be a lot cleaner.
She looks like the proto-Karen.
Bet her sermons were doozies. No wonder she is an ex-minister.
Total aside – I never see those white doggy jobbies that I used to see in my youth. Looked like sticks of chalk. What in the diet caused that? Or maybe it was just a Scotland thing. Too mean to buy proper dog food. Just bones.
It is many many years since I have seen white dog poo. It used to be very common, like ordinary poo that had been calcified. I wonder what happened….
Ah! I made time in my hectic schedule to find the answer –
https://www.drool.pet/blogs/articles/mystery-solved-why-you-don-t-see-white-dog-poo-anymore
Ha, ha!
Do you remember the time she irked David Norris?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/regina-doherty-to-make-formal-complaint-over-norris-comments-1.1464414
Norris had the measure of her, all right.
Being a connosew…connoseu…fairly knowledgeable about doggie poos, it's raw bones that lead to white crumbly poos, course every man and his dog knows dogs should have uncooked bones and not cooked ones, dogs are designed to process such raw items.
I suppose it's a sign of the times – your local butcher is a rarity so there is less chance of asking for a few raw bones [which they were always delighted to give]. Meat these days seems to come pre-packed and mostly boneless.
Luckily our local Morrisons butchers dept bags up the few lamb bones they get whilst doing their thing, get enough for a good chomp for our three mutts for about a quid, beef bones are too tough. unless you've got a hound from hell.
Dog licences have not been required in England since 1988. But it's been a legal requirement to have all dogs micro-chipped in England, Scotland & Wales since 2016 (although many owners are unaware of this).
Oh, the fun we had with white poo sticks! (Those were the days when teachers still used chalk and blackboards – sometimes the chalk was not quite the same…)
I think chips are mandatory here too. Doesn't bother me whether there's a law or not as it is only common sense to micro-chip a dog and I always do it.
Perhaps the senator was referring to her own village as far as poo being everywhere? Whether she does or not I get the distinct feeling she has a poo fixation. I wonder if there's counseling for that?