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He doesn’t know what he means without checking in the dictionary

Is she “posh”? Perhaps you know her

“Bird”? Really?

How does anyone not know what a cunt Clapton is? His music is shit so it’s hardly a difficult decision in the “good art v terrible person” dilemma

The line has shifted from “it was an outdoor meeting”, to “it was a harmless outdoor drink after a meeting, where indoor social distancing rule’s didn’t apply” - in the space of a an hour or so. Did the brief change, or did Raab take his own line given the ludicrous idea that they were having a meeting?

I'm lucky that I've got the space, garden and close to loads of parks. There's a chance it might not work, but Reggie's been good with her so far. I took the view that there's a good chance some of the pups might not find homes, so there's little to lose.

Making friends

The kids have named her Luna - she's a staffy cross. A guy has a bitch that had an unexpected litter of 14 and he's struggling to find homes for them. Not being a tri-colour/merle/exotic cross-breed with a cute name doesn't help...

Anyway, she's a new friend for Reggie and at least I'll be permanently at home for the next few weeks to settle her in.

Picked up the new pup last night

It's not a big deal - several squares of kitchen roll between forefinger and thumb and Bob is your proverbial uncle. Don't squeeze too hard...

DIY

New pup incoming

I did point out this possible flaw in the plan...

Yep.

The process seems to be:

-Teenager gets stopped for smoking weed
-Some get taken home to see if there is a responsible adult there, some get taken to the local nick and held (often overnight)
-Police then decide whether to process themselves or refer to YOT
-The decision and subsequent process hinges on whether the teenager seems to have a supportive and articulate family, is in school, has a job, has thoughts about their future, where they hang out and with whom, has a legitimate source of income...

The aim is to establish whether the teenager is at risk of grooming and (county lines) gangs, or simply smoking weed because that's what teenagers do. What happens next is based on a well-intentioned but flawed and utterly subjective approach to safeguarding. You don't need to be a genius to guess which kids get a friendly YOT rap on the knuckles and which have a far less pleasant experience.

Entertaining as this all is, I'm thoroughly confused about why @Dammit is making garage doors at his current gaff when he's moving to Scotland in order to become a citizen of the EU again :)

I think it took about a week for mine to appear

demand drug tests from the children of every MP

Or have a look at the way under 18s are profiled when caught with weed for personal use. The balance between the less formal involvement of YOTs vs more formal involvement of the police depending on skin colour and perceived involved and supportive family (read white middle class) is shocking.

Saw him last night and, as you know, “peace” is not a word to be associated with him

Not a dog behaviourist, but here's my take.

If you've created a safe environment for him in his crate, then he could well be more protective of food and treats given to him in his crate, plus he's enclosed/cornered and has nowhere to take his prized food, so could be more likely to guard it. What's he like with food given to him outside the crate?

There are some people who take the view that you should be able to take food off a dog at any time, others see growling as perfectly reasonable (when it's over food) and simply the dog letting you know it wants to be left alone with it's food. I'm not saying the former is wrong, but it does often seem pointless, other than the human trying to prove themselves the "pack leader".

I had a dog that was very protective of food that he was given. He was fed twice a day and always outside (whatever the weather) and never received anything in the house - and we never had a problem. Yet he was able to distinguish between "his" food (the food he was given in his bowl) and food he scavenged, and would drop on command or let me remove chicken bones from his mouth when on walks.

Interestingly, he was way less food motivated than my current dog, Reggie, who will eat anything and everything, but never guards or shows no aggression around it.

If it’s just to remove wax, over the counter human ones, warmed up first. Do it outside and stand the fuck back when he shakes his head…

The park closest to my house has a stables and a couple of paddocks (Brixton’s famous Ebony Horse Club). Familiarity means Reggie totally ignores horses. The same principle doesn’t apply to squirrels…

One of the things I do is run a catering business. It’s a social enterprise and we employ people with a range of needs, people in recovery, people getting back into work. We’ve always started people on the London Living Wage and we have very low staff turnover.

Brexit hasn’t affected us at all, but I know people whose businesses are really suffering as a result. Not because they are having to pay more - they’ve always been good payers - but because they simply cannot find enough good staff and are having to operate reduced days/hours. Anecdata…

Not really, it’s the wake for Diane’s dad today. Lots to get ready

I would not hire any of the lufugexperts, they're on here all fucking day by the looks of it...

Says the man with third highest post count on the forum…

Such a great dog