In the blackberry season (now), I always like to take a small plastic bag for some breakfast berries on the way to the paper shop which takes me down a meandering tree lined pathway through the parkland behind the housing estates.
As I am very tall I always pick high up fruit leaving the lower stuff for normal sized people & the very high up for the birds. sounds wonderful does it not?
This morning I came across a couple with a large stepladder held by the husband, looking embarrassed, with the wife stripping everything off the bush including those fruits not yet red let alone black!
I suggested it might be nice to just take enough for one helping of fruit leaving some for the birds & maybe someone else when the fruit ripened....
the wife suggested I go forth & multiply (although not that politely) because her basket was not yet full!
We have to live amongst these people who do not seem to understand polite society or good manners.....
Speaking of blackberries Joe, It reminds me of our old but sadly now deceased black Labrador Bess who was inordinately fond of blackberries and other fruit , victoria plums and even tomatoes if she managed to sneak into the glass house.
She would purse her lips as she sucked the juceiest fruits off the lower branches of the bramble bushes in the lane by our gate.
On one occasion this elicited a peevish complaint from a middle age lady passing by with her basket. " Your dog is taking all the best fruit"
to which I replied
“as they are by our gate Bess thinks they belong to her, however she probably wouldn’t mind if the lady had a few too”.
Gelert, him peeking from under the gate, has very catholic tastes, fruit being one of them. I wonder why I’m the designated bag carrier on our walks? [:-"]
One can only hope they overbalance their ladder one day soon
Our Terriers love the odd blackberry, they are partial to quite a few fruits such as mandarin segments, strawberries, apple as well as the stalk core of cabbages, cauliflower etc. You must check what they can eat of course, grapes and raisins are a no-no.
We are lucky that our walks have several miles of blackberry brambles which are really underpicked, poo bags come in handy for other uses then, passers by sometimes wonder how two small dogs could pass in excess of two pounds of stuff in four bags until they find out it’s fruits of the forest.