This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bacheloret in snowy and chill New England.

Jeremy Zackis, my correspondent, is in Torrid and Barbecue-dominated New South Wales in the Southern Hemisphere.

However, we turned to the adventures of Dallas, the 11-year-old Spoodle.

When last we left Dallas, the 11-year-old Spoodle.

When last we left Dallas, a scene out of the birds, Alfred Hitchcock's classic.

Dallas minding his own business.

But somewhere in the background, if you were very careful to study the whole frame of the movie,

there were beautiful white birds called cockatoos, which are the opposite of what they appear. They appear angelic and gentle and musical. They're in fact villains. The villains

attack property, and I've been concerned for some weeks that they were eyeing Jeremy's property.

But Jeremy last reported they were looking over his neighbor's house again because they tore up his roof.

However, it turns out the reason that cockatoos...

All right, it's possible that the cockatoos may have stayed back from Jeremy's property because of watchdog Dallas.

Jeremy, this is a fantastic story.

Dallas has either been enlisted by the magpies or he's enlisted them.

How does it work?

Well, John, I think it might be a bit of both because this is the interesting thing.

Dallas loves every bird.

He very much welcomes them onto the property.

On the walks, he loves to say hello, basically, wags his tail, puts his head down, looks very, very much a friendly dog.

Except this week, it was confirmed that the cockatoos are not his friends.

In fact, the cockatoos more than three times

try to land on their property and Dallas actually ran after them. He wasn't barking, but he actually

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