S8 Ep656: Summary 3 Jeremy Zakis reports that his dog, Dallas, has restored order to his backyard by chasing off destructive cockatoos and noisy minor birds. This intervention allowed local magpie families and other docile birds to return. Zakis details the surpris
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
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Summary 3 Jeremy Zakis reports that his dog, Dallas, has restored order to his backyard by chasing off destructive cockatoos and noisy minor birds. This intervention allowed local magpie families and other docile birds to return. Zakis details the surprisingly "villainous" and destructive behavior of wild cockatoos in their natural Australian environment. (3)
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| 0:41.0 | You will recall, Dallas is on patrol. Last we left him, he was watching not only for the cockatoos |
| 0:47.3 | who are villains, I understand their beautiful white birds with a big crest and they do tricks. |
| 0:54.2 | I understand that. |
| 0:55.7 | But at the same time, in their natural environment in Australia, they are more than pests. |
| 1:02.3 | They are deliberate, destructive villains. |
| 1:05.3 | They have something of the renegade animal about them. |
| 1:09.2 | Now, the last time we left them, they were watching the |
| 1:12.8 | minor birds, which are not as destructive, not as big, but still annoying, lining up like it was |
| 1:20.4 | Alfred Hitchcock's the birds on the roof next door. Dallas was watchful. Remember, Dallas |
| 1:26.5 | is partial to the magpie families, whom he's adopted. |
| 1:31.3 | They've adopted Dallas because Dallas is a meal ticket. I mean, there's social welfare and there's |
| 1:38.3 | Dallas and there's no difference in this area, although Jeremy works for Dallas. |
| 1:49.4 | But the concern was the cockatoos could come back at any moment. |
| 1:51.9 | And Dallas did not want that. |
| 1:55.0 | So a week later, and what's happened, Jeremy? |
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