The Curse of the Beige strikes again...
So I was on the field today walking the dogs. I was minding my own business when man approached me. He said he worked for the RSPCA and thought it appropriate to tell me my dogs were overweight.
Well I thought, you cheeky bas**rd. He had more chins than the Chinese telephone directory and had obviously been in charge of the pie factory in his previous job as he'd clearly eaten all the stock.
Well you can imagine what I told him to do. Most of which is not publishable here. But I might of mentioned for him to, 'Chew on you're own advice you f** f****** are****.'
Anyway, I might add my dogs are not emaciated little mongrels. They are well looked after, well exercised and cared for pedigrees. Yes they may be a little overweight but not to the extent where Adolf Beige has to come at me with his rule book.
Make your own mind up
Well I thought, you cheeky bas**rd. He had more chins than the Chinese telephone directory and had obviously been in charge of the pie factory in his previous job as he'd clearly eaten all the stock.
Well you can imagine what I told him to do. Most of which is not publishable here. But I might of mentioned for him to, 'Chew on you're own advice you f** f****** are****.'
Anyway, I might add my dogs are not emaciated little mongrels. They are well looked after, well exercised and cared for pedigrees. Yes they may be a little overweight but not to the extent where Adolf Beige has to come at me with his rule book.
Make your own mind up
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They're Bassetts, right? Aren't they prone to putting on the pounds anyway? Plus they've got those eyes - if you can resist that pleading look all the time, you don't have a heart.
The guy was out of order. They look well cared for, so I imagine you'll get such health tips from your vet, whose advice you pay for, rather than someone, claiming to be from the RSPCA, walking up to you on the street.
How old are they?Posted 8th May 2012 at 08:32 AM by Abernovo
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To be fair, the RSPCA has got a bit of a reputation for this sort of thing. There was even a File on Four** programme about the way some of their (senior) officers were throwing their weight about: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme..._4/7632082.stm.
On the other hand, you don't have to be a member of an organisation to be a busybody. One of these came up to me in a Tesco car park a few years back, saying that I'd pulled into a disabled parking space. True, there was a disabled parking sign to the immediate right of my car. What the old fool didn't know was that this marked the end of the disabled bays. A quick look would have shown that there was no extra 'alighting' space on the other side of my car. I moved, just to save having an argument. (He looked too frail to be on the receiving end of a full-volume rant from me, though appearances can be deceptive, and too old to change his ways.) And sure enough, while the (empty) disabled bays were individually marked as such, it was clear that the bay I'd vacated was not.
** - BBC Radio Four documentary series.Posted 8th May 2012 at 10:36 AM by Ursa major
