#OzWatch: Dallas teaches Magpie teen to play ball. Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 16 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. We're in the footnote section. Dallas is added again. Jeremy Zackas is here. Dallas is the 10 to 11 year old spoodle. Dallas is a very good dog, extremely good. And in his maturity, he has decided to be a one dog belt and road towards the magpies. |
| 0:20.9 | Now, I remind you all, the magpies are not the first, second, or third, or even 500th bird |
| 0:26.7 | you would choose to be friends with. |
| 0:28.7 | They're extremely territorial. |
| 0:31.8 | They attack humans. |
| 0:33.5 | You have to wear a bicycle helmet if you're in the neighborhood. |
| 0:37.3 | And they say when you're too close to their nest. |
| 0:41.4 | You don't say it. |
| 0:42.9 | You don't have a right of appeal. |
| 0:45.5 | That goes for dogs, too. |
| 0:47.7 | Anybody near their nest gets attacked. |
| 0:49.9 | And they're ruthless. |
| 0:51.1 | They're not small. |
| 0:52.9 | But they come after humans and they remember you. |
| 0:55.6 | Don't cross them. Except Dallas. We don't have an explanation for Dallas adopting the magpie |
| 1:03.0 | family unless it was the other way around. However, Jeremy, Dallas is now sharing his toys. |
| 1:08.7 | This is getting unusual. What happened? This is definitely |
| 1:13.5 | getting unusual, John. And this is really a new one for Dallas. And what happened was this week, |
| 1:18.6 | I was at home. We had some things being installed in the house. So I managed to be home during the day. |
| 1:23.7 | So I got to let Dallas outside and got to kind of observe him during his normal outside |
| 1:28.4 | routine when I'd normally be at work. Sure enough, he went outside on the lawn and within |
| 1:32.9 | probably a couple of minutes, the magpies were around in which I know is a pretty normal thing |
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