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Woof, No Woof |
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A meeting of the urban council was attended by a delegation of dogs led by Lotus Blossom, a Pekinese from Prissy Villas. Before the council was a motion from councilor Pedant for tougher laws to prevent dogs from befouling the streets by rounding up all stray dogs and impounding them until such time as their owners paid for their release. Ownerless dogs were to be put down. Lotus Blossom questioned whither such a move was constitutional, given that there was no provision in the constitution for such a draconian move. There were three public toilets for people in the town, she said, but none for dogs. Yap! Yap! interjected Rover, a Great Dane, at this stage. Councilor Pedant said that dogs were owner-dependant and therefore it was up to their owners to provide the facility. If dogs did not have owners, they did not have rights. The meeting turned nasty at this stage, when a rotweiler and a terrier, of unknown names and abode, attempted to attack Councilor Pedant. The rotweiller ripped a large piece off Councilor Pedant's trouser leg, before being brought under control by Lotus Blossom. Chairman More asked that the dogs withdraw. When they refused, he suspended the meeting. Afterwards our reporter interviewed some of the dogs. Lotus Blossom said that if Councilor Pedant and his cronies thought they had heard the last of this matter, they had another yap coming. The great Dane said that all dogs had the same rights, whither they had owners, or not. That, he said, was the bottom woof. The terrier said that what Councilor Pedant and his kind needed was a few sharp bites. It was the only snarl they understood. The rotweiller, less articulate, said "Grrrrrrr!" |