Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is James.
Okay my fact this week is
that some dog owners in Alaska are putting spiky jackets on their pets to stop bald eagles from carrying them away.
How many pets in Alaska have been carried off by bald eagles?
To my knowledge in recent weeks zero, but that just shows that these jackets are doing their job, right?
That's a good point, yeah.
It's so cool, have you guys seen a picture of it?
They look like futuristic ravers like an apocalyptic punk, it's amazing,
it's like huge glow sticks on the back but they're spiked multi-coloured and so on.
Because I read a few things saying,
I can't look out whether the guys selling this stuff are just on a genius streak of manipulating dog owners paranoia
because there are lots of eagles and they do carry off very heavy fish.
Well okay so there are a lot more bald eagles recently than there have been over the recent history, that is for sure.
There were about 72,000 in the US in 2009 and in 2019 there were 316,000 and that's to say nothing of the ones that are in Canada which is plenty as well.
So that's good news for eagles but it might be bad news for dogs