Dog Shit

Imagine a Dog with it's own Twitter page.

Ok then, if that's a bit unrealistic. Imagine a Police force setting up a twitter page on behalf of one of it's sniffer dogs.

Surely not?

Tragically i'm not making this up. The West Midlands Police have set up a page for "Smithy", a 2 year old Labrador trained in finding blood and human remains.

This really is one of the worst ideas i've ever heard. And as much as i hate to use the cliche, don't they have anything better to do?

I'm sure they will argue that it is in some way raising awareness of crimes etc but it doesn't seem to be the case from where i'm standing. So far there have been 52 tweets, of which 3 are about a missing person and one about a dead body being found in a disused building. The other 98% is woeful attempts at comedy and vague information. Stuff like this.....


been out for a run !!! nights tonight, gonna get my head down and dream of chasing cats !!!
1,283,604,039,000.00 via web

One of our on going cases I've been sniffing around at....can you help Staffs police
1,283,778,182,000.00 via web

Check me out !!!page 11 of the Sunday Mercury,,,pity the photographer got my woof side!
1,283,701,048,000.00 via web

This twitter stuff is killing my claws work need to get me an ipaw! i mean ipad!
1,283,787,734,000.00 via web

Funny isn't he?

Though realistically the only thing a dog could type would be mkm,brewz.m,erwd,l m m rdq2lre';dre,,m,d./;lewk,.w,.msdp[qwe[]q2#2w/m,ashsajklfjkjkfsdkljdnsfjkd bs bn bbnbnbdeioirp][qweppweq][ordow etc, not the etc....Or any of this, just the jumbled letters. If you want to know what a dog dreams about or how it's found it's day at work well it's tough shit because you never will. It's the work of some crank who is not a dog...nor is he in possession of any shame.

Smithy has 155 followers. There is nothing to justify any time being spent on this excercise.