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Pampered middle-class pooches are in charge of their owners

My spaniel and I take our lives into our hands every time we go to Tooting Common

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

Why won’t the middle classes shout at their dogs any more? My suspicion is that the bleeding heart liberals, having succeeded in stopping right-minded people from shouting at their children, have moved on to stopping us from emotionally scarring animals.

The result, of course, is that our four-legged friends are becoming about as unpleasant as your average infant.

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