(Hu)Man’s best friends

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cats, credit crunch, Dogs, England, financial benefits, Musings, Pets, random thoughts

A while back while having a pets talk with the lovely lady at mybeautifulthings, I remembered something I had been told about the new incentive to have pets, for some of the folks in England.

As we all know, times are hard. For some luckier ones in some parts of the world, their government will dish out a few bucks. Call them benefits. Apparently, since animals are our fellow creations and we’ve got to treat them good too, if one has got a pet, say a dog, one is given benefits for that dog too. Which makes sense. If you’ve got none to very little income and own a dog, you can’t be asked to let your dog starve.

Now, that may be taken as a given by most but I have to tell you, I was rather surprised.

My Neighbour’s Poodle

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Dogs, Neighbours, Pets, Poodle

It looks so weird. No, not the poodle, the neighbours and their poodle. Complete with leash, all that the picture needed to make it complete were a jumper and little pink dog shoes borrowed from Paris Hilton’s poodle. Yesterday but one I saw them walking it, it’s little feet were muddy from the downpour earlier in the day. Then, again, later in the day they walked it some more. It is obvious from the way my neighbours were walking that felt they were onto something novel.

I’m sure you can understand my taking out a second to be surprised at my neighbours and their poodle; without looking it, of course. I’m quite good at looking un-impressed and un-moved. I could agree with them that it’s all a little novel but I wasn’t about to tell them. Of course we’ve all seen it on TV and all. Still, Ugandans walking poodles in Uganda is as rare a sight as a North Korean giving a South Korean a big, warm, brotherly hug.