Bob the Dog

This is our friend, Bob the Dog. Sometimes we call him Birchgrove Bob too! He lives really close to the park.

Well, one day he was in the park, and there was this cat. The cat decided that he wanted to run away and Bob thought he wanted to play chasings. Sooooooooo, as you would expect, Bob chased the cat!

Heavens to Betsy! Nothing unusual about that. We all do it all the time. Everyone is just having fun. Sometimes, if the cat doesn't want to play chasings, they just sit there and look at you - and if looks could kill!!!!!!!! You just know they are not in the mood.

Anyway, you wouldn't believe the fuss!! It was as if Bob had killed an endangered species instead of just chased a cat! He didn't even get close to the cat. The Council man came down, didn't even talk to Bob, but said that he was "a dangerous dog" who should be kept on a leash and with a muzzel on if he ever went out. Can you believe that?

Bob is REALLY friendly. He is very gentle even with really little dogs. And he is even good with puppies - and we all know how annoying they can be!

His owner had to go to the judge and try to make everyone know that Bob is a good dog and not a mean one. We got hundreds of people who know Bob, to sign a petition to say the Bob the Dog is a friendly dog. We even signed it. Our mum and the mums and dads of lots of our friends were really cranky with the Council man. He was just being silly.

Bob the Dog became really famous though - the TV people and the newspapers had stories on him everytime he had to go to the Court. People in other states even got to hear about him. Everyone thought it was really awful what the council did. Lots of the people in Balmain put posters in their houses and on their cars to say they supported Bob the Dog and said things like "Save Bob the Dog!"

Long story, short - Bob is now officially a friendly dog. The council knew that they couldn't convince anyone that he was dangerous so they gave up. But they were still mean - they said that when he chased the cat he ran onto the road without a leash on so his dad had to admit that Bob was not under control (AKA with a leash on!) when he was on the public road.

I don't know how much money the Council people spent trying to say Bob was dangerous - but mum said that it was our money and could have been better spent planting more trees for the dogs to wee on! Hear! Hear! to that!

More Pictures of Bob the Dog

Here he is just running in the park.	I think he is playing tug-o-war with Giotto.
He must be the referee here - with Molly and Giotto having a tug-o-war.	Not an easy match to control! Molly was not giving in without a fight!
Enjoying the sun, wandering along the waterfront, minding his own business.	I think Bob and Jangles are trying to hide from someone - or maybe they are planning to jump out and scare them!

We think everyone ought to let the people at the Council know that they were really mean to Bob the Dog. We also think ratepayers ought to ask their representatives on Council to make the people who wasted so much money to tell us all exactly how much money they wasted!

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