Wow. This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society. I'm John Batchel in Southern New England,

and we go to Jeremy Zackis in New South Wales and his spoodle, 11-year-old Spoodle, Dallas,

who has adopted not one, but maybe two magpie families. It's breeding season. Magpies are

exceedingly territorial. In fact, there was a little girl who was

attacked badly some days ago from a magpie who thought she was threatening his nest. It was not

true, but therein is the possibility. Magpies attach, attack bicyclers, walkers, anybody. But not

Dallas, the spoodle.

However, there is another bird presence in the neighborhood that worries me, the cockatoos.

First of all, the latest report on Dallas and his magpies.

Everybody getting along?

Thank you, Jeremy.

They sure are, John.

In fact, I had a, I guess it felt like a scene out of the birds earlier this week. I was out on our normal morning walk. We normally go out about 536 in the morning, normally just before we actually feed our family of Macpies. And lo and behold, as I was walking around the neighbourhood, I got this feeling that I was being watched and we were sort of wandering and wandering and then we came up to one of our normal crossings where we stopped Dallas does his sit because he's a

very good boy and then we go across the street as we did that though we had two sets of magpie

families actually land within about five 10 yards of where we were and they weren't scared they

weren't of being aggressive or anything

like that. But we had around about eight magfires that for whatever reason decided to just sit

and kind of, you know, be with us for a little while we waited to while the traffic was clear

and we could cross the road. Now, I haven't really seen this before except when we've been much

close to home, But the way that Dallas

reacted, again, wagging his tail, kind of looking at them, and the fact that they felt so

comfortable and familiar just with our presence being there, and Dallas, again, being a dog,

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