This is the Friends of History Debating Society. Jeremy Zackis is here and his 10-year-old Spoodle, Dallas.

Dallas has befriended a magpie family, and the relationship has been building over many months or years.

And Jalas shares thoughts, games, food, water with the Magpie family. But there's been a change in the

status of Dallas. No longer is he a volunteer, sort of a worthy beast who contributes to the

Magpie pleasure. He is now a family retainer. Jeremy, what's happened? Well, John, what's happened is I've

now learned that Dallas is now representing the Megpie family. And I'll tell you how,

basically every Saturday morning here, we enjoy us sleeping. We try and have a slow start to the day.

And I thought yesterday was going to be

pretty much the same as normal. Well, no, not quite. First of all, I kind of woke up at a reasonable

hour. I think it was around about eight o'clock. I could sort of hear the magpies that were warbling

outside. And I didn't think anything of it. I thought, that's the Maggie family, they're here, they'll do their thing. But anyway, I then noticed

that Dallas wasn't on the bed. And yes, we do let him sleep on the bed. He's an elderly

gentleman, so we give him that now. But I noticed Dallas wasn't there. So I kind of was thinking

where is he, where's he gone? Sure enough, no sooner at I thought that Dallas then comes bounding into the bedroom. He jumps up onto the bed

and basically he jumps onto me and I'm like, oh hello boy, what's wrong? What would you like?

Anyways, wagging his tail so I think, oh, you know what? Maybe he just wants to go outside.

So I take him down to the other end of the house, come to the glass doors to head out to the

backyard. I can see the magpies are already there.

I go to open the doors, but then I noticed Dallas has actually stopped,

not in the spot he normally goes to when he wants to go out,

but he actually stopped a fair way back.

Just looking at me, wagging his tails, kind of, you know,

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