While cleaning-up after your pet is now generally accepted, Tess, our two year old German Shepherd cross Border Collie has taken the idea a step further. In recent month she has rejected her normal ball games while out walking and taken to hunting out and bringing home plastic bottles carelessly discarded by humans exercising themselves or their pets down the banks of the River Don. Tess rarely comes home without a bottle she has found, all of which are then recycled, and several months on the area looks a lot tidier without as much litter. One day this last week, on finding no bottle to clear up, she even retrieved an empty crisp packet! It is a shame that humans aren't better at tidying up after themselves.
