I'm John Bachelor with my good friend and colleague Jeremy Sackus reporting from New South Wales.

Dallas is his faithful poodle.

Well, Dallas has a friend, sort mates that look in on him sort of and enjoy

taunting him or paying attention to him in the morning how How to put this, Jeremy?

Well, John, I guess in some ways now, not really taunting because this is the dadaver's thing happened this week. Dallas, out lovely spoodle who is firmly a dog and our magpies of which

there are now six that come around every morning and mostly to try and steal his food and I think

because I've made the mistake of feeding a ham once in a while they think they're going to get breakfast every day, which I've got to admit I love animals.

So unfortunately I do feed them and encourage them. But I actually saw Dallas respond, I think, to the magpies warbling and when I say responds not a buck but kind of like if you can imagine the dog talking they kind of make a melodic tone Dallas seems to actually respond when the MacPies were well and I've never seen

him do this before and it's a very new thing so I actually think now John for all the

times we've spoken about Dallas maybe having some kind of challenge in

conflict with the MacPyes because it's his territory and you know he's kind of

come to a day tant and he's sort of happy with them there I think he may

actually be talking to the birds.

Now, I haven't got firm proof yet,

and I'll have to see it a few more times,

but this week, John, I think Dallas is actually

starting to talk to the birds in some kind of language

that I just don't understand.

It might be Mali and Peggy language.

You know, we could check on how they communicate, but I want to go to the villains.

The magpies are clearly very intelligent birds and they know Dallas is a source of breakfast and that's that's good to develop Dallas

You know we don't want to be his enemy. We're working together. You also have

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