Results tagged “animals;” from Birmingham Mail - Editors Chair Blog

Is it just me, or should domestic animals be allowed?

Smelly, dirty, flea-ridden, noisy, hairy, sneeze-prompting hounds. Evil-eyed, posey, snobby, scratchy sometimes screechy cats. Ban 'em all!

Well, if I can't get the animals banned, I can at least remove soppy stories about them from the Birmingham Mail. Until, that is, I'm away, it seems...

A day off yesterday (Friday) led to a page three story about good-pal dogs who couldn't bear to be away from eachother. Yeah, right. Sounds a bit sniffy to me, if you know what I mean. Plus as well as the dogs they had other pix of friendly cats and guinea pigs. Urrggh.

And by today, the paper has a story headlined: 'Movie star dog lost in snowstorm'. No lie! (good riddance, I say). And the old infamous 'cat rescued from roof' was on the same page six. Noooooo! (Why, oh why, does the fire service spend hundreds of pounds of council tax money rescuing cats?? That should be the story, guys.)

I'd only just recovered from that page in today's paper when I turned to page 9 to read 'Brum fits bill for a duck far from home' about some foreign mallards enjoying a dip in Brum's canals. How about 'New style ducks on the menu of Mailbox restaurants after tasty birds wander from usual flight route' instead?. Mmmmm.

A few words in Monday's review conference on our news policy re. animals are needed, methinks.