Got your attention?
No, not talking about kittens appearing in the garden.
We saw this one on the way back from buying my catfood last week. I'm in the picture to give it some scale (frankly the motorbike does a better job), but it was a bit of a rush photo shoot because a bloke with a big dog appeared and then got creepy hanging around and staring at us. We get all cagey about big dogs that are allowed to hang around and stare at cats. F has castigated a couple of blokes who bring their dogs onto our beach and encourage them to chase and maul cats. (Mostly the cats can stick up for themselves, or they are very quick and they have all the little caves mapped out to escape into, but that isn't the point. Dogs that are encouraged to be randomly vicious can't be trusted around humans either. Furthermore, it says very little that is positive about the mentality of the dog-owner.)
That's a digression, where was I? - oh yeah Baby Dumper.
It was sort of the Reliant Robin of dump trucks - well it had 4 wheels, but it wasn't much bigger than the 3-wheeler tuk-tuk things that wobble around Piraeus with a cage on the back collecting up various forms of scrap (flattened cardboard boxes being a notable one that always makes my head turn).
We guess this one the municipality uses, to collect up the scrap that even the scrap collectors don't want, and it fits down all the little narrow streets.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteWell it are cute. Not as cute as you, but cute enough. And Yeah, I hears ya on that nasty dog owners thing... the kind that get all good dogs and their owners a poor rep... Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
The standard of dog care here has improved out of sight in the last 2 years, the last 12 months particularly. The streets and the beach around the bottom of the stairs used to be covered in 'landmines' but that all seems to be gone and we never see people take their dogs down the stairs to reappear in 5 minutes - and know they went to 'fertilize' the rocks. Not sure what happened but others (locals) have acknowledged it too. Fs & Ps xxx Mr T
DeleteI totally dislike dogs, vicious or not - I will do all I can to avoid them, so you can imagine how devastated I feel after discovering yesterday that a new dog has moved in next door. It barked at me!
ReplyDeleteWe only have big trucks picking up junk around here, they make so much noise.
Purrings, Mittens 😻
I'm with you on the dogs Mittens. All dogs are abominations and I don't know what humans see in them. I have however seen my humans playing with dogs too. Traitors. I can't even abide the teeny tiny ones that travel about in handbags - they'd choke you if you ate them. Fs & Ps Mr T
DeleteSome people need a pat on the head with a shovel I think
ReplyDeleteI’m glad your safe
We have one of those baby dumpers. It fits up all the back streets. Dogs aren't supposed to be let off the lead anywhere outside. Threaten him with the police, if it's possible . Don't know about cats though. But Tiggers won't attack and maul you to death, normally
ReplyDeleteWhen someone with a dog really needs 'telling' we get Panagiota to 'reason with' them in Greek. That tends to involve an increase in the volume and speed of the spoken Greek to levels that F cannot achieve and usually can only pick about 1/10th words out of. There is also the handwaving of course.....
DeleteExtraordinarily, Tiggers could maul you to death, if they wanted to, but we keep quiet about it. And mostly they don't want to because they can't be bothered. It's messy and time consuming and requires a lot of personal grooming afterwards.