S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis describes Dallas, an eleven-year-old dog, patrolling to protect his property from aggressive cockatoos that previously dismantled a neighbor's roof, with a gang of up to seven birds conducting reconnaissance from a nearby pine tree while targ
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
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Jeremy Zakis describes Dallas, an eleven-year-old dog, patrolling to protect his property from aggressive cockatoos that previously dismantled a neighbor's roof, with a gang of up to seven birds conducting reconnaissance from a nearby pine tree while targeting solar panels. 2
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Baxter. Jeremy Zackis in New South Wales, Dallas, the 11-year-old Spoodle, on patrol. |
| 0:10.0 | You will all recall the backstory is the cockatoos, beautiful white birds, very big, very confident, very aggressive, showed up some weeks ago, months ago now, |
| 0:22.4 | and tore apart a neighbor's roof. |
| 0:24.4 | Just picked it apart. |
| 0:26.1 | They've got strong beats, and they've got a bad attitude. |
| 0:30.1 | Then they went away for a while, and Jeremy watched them, |
| 0:34.1 | the neighbor repair his roof, forget it getting ready to repair his roof. |
| 0:38.3 | And then one cockatoo came back, then two, and then a group. |
| 0:43.4 | But this time they weren't looking at the neighbor's roof. |
| 0:45.7 | They did that already, looking at Jeremy's roof. |
| 0:49.3 | And one scouts, the other guards, and then a pass-a-l-l-bem show up. |
| 0:54.0 | And now we're left with Dallas, who is friendly to all birds but the the other guards, and then a passal of them show up. |
| 0:59.0 | And now we're left with Dallas, who is friendly to all birds but the cockatoos. |
| 1:02.1 | He recognizes there's something hostile here. |
| 1:05.1 | Dallas is on patrol, but he's got to sleep. |
| 1:09.7 | So the concern is that Dallas needs relief. |
| 1:11.9 | He needs somebody to do the night shift. |
| 1:15.2 | Jeremy, what are you, what's your best thinking on this? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, John, I totally agree. |
| 1:20.0 | Dallas needs somebody to cover the times. |
| 1:24.8 | He's out there having a snooze during the day because what we have noticed, as you described there, we started off with one cockatoo surveilling our route. |
| 1:28.7 | Then there were two, and then there were a few more. |
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