S8 Ep695: Jeremy Zakis describes how his dog, Dallas, protects local magpies and rosellas from destructive cockatoos and miner birds. Dallas’s patrols have restored the backyard's equilibrium, allowing smaller, docile bird species to return home safely now,,. (2)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Jeremy Zakis describes how his dog, Dallas, protects local magpies and rosellas from destructive cockatoos and miner birds. Dallas’s patrols have restored the backyard's equilibrium, allowing smaller, docile bird species to return home safely now,,. (2)
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| 0:29.8 | I'm John Betts with Jeremy Zakis and Dallas, the 11-year-old Spoodle. Still 11, Jeremy, or is he, |
| 0:36.8 | is his birthday up? |
| 0:38.8 | Well, he's actually now 11.5. |
| 0:41.0 | His birthday is in August, so soon to be a 12-year-old Spoodling, going strong. |
| 0:45.4 | 11-and-a-half-year-old spoodle named Dallas, |
| 0:49.0 | who's adopted, as far as I can tell, every magpie he can see, |
| 0:53.2 | and the magpies have adopted him, which is unusual, |
| 0:57.0 | because magpies have a reputation of being territorial, possessive, and aggressive. |
| 1:03.3 | That is, if you're riding a bicycle anywhere near their nest in breeding season, |
| 1:09.7 | they'll dive bomb you when you better have your helmet on. |
| 1:12.4 | Okay. |
| 1:13.3 | But Dallas, clever spoodle, decided to share his morning breakfast with them. |
| 1:19.6 | And now that means that Jeremy works for Dallas. |
| 1:23.0 | Jeremy puts out very attractive meat dishes and the magpie family fell in line. Teenagers, new |
| 1:29.9 | Magpie family showed up. In the meantime, the villains of the neighborhood, the beautiful white |
| 1:35.3 | birds, big ones called cockatoos, have been circling around pretty much like an Alfred Hitchcock |
| 1:41.7 | movie. And then their companion, stooges, kind of like |
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