Monday, 23 February 2009

How we communicate with our neighbours #27

Restrain your dogI just wanted to ask, are you sure it's not a fox?

Meanwhile, to redress the regrettable imbalance in communication of this kind, I long for an example of complaint about cats. Without prospect of being controlled, they crap all over the gardens of people with children. And yet somehow, cat-owners seem incapable of recognising this as anti-social. Wait, don't go, I haven't started on the bit about their habit of killing birds...

23 Feb 2009 13:34:33 | Vignettes

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