This follows on from yesterday's blog... I've had Cilla singing 'I can sing a rainbow' on a subconscious loop all night and I need to exorcise her...
I've been rather taken by my food colouring idea, though. Don't you think the world would be a brighter, happier place? I mean, council cutbacks and all you just don't see the kind of flower displays you used to see in parks and other communal areas, and I think psychedelic dog kak could go a long way to redressing the balance. You could even feed them, say, half a tin of green and half a tin of yellow and get beautiful variegated varieties. You would have to be a bit careful with some colours, though, 'cos lets face it on grass a green one would effectively be camouflaged, which would make avoidance even more tricky. Perhaps we could add chemicals that reacted to things like chlorophyl levels in the surrounding environment and adapted accordingly - sort of like chameleons or octopuses (pi?), but in reverse? That way, a brown one would turn bright green or something in dirt, but turn red if deposited in grass or on a concrete paving slab. Maybe we should just go for multipurpose striped ones? I know they say 'red and green should never be seen' (try telling that to a parrot!), but it is conspicuous in most environments. Or maybe we could go for nature's universal warning colours and try yellow and black? On the downside, that might scare off natural poop predators (that's not the right word, but I can't think of the right one at the mo) like flies and maggits and lurchers which would be counterproductive....
Nope. I think the original idea - lots of variations contrasting with the original background colour - is the best idea. It would turn something ugly into something beautiful, and lets face it, we all need a bit more of that in our lives Do you remember those sweets you used to buy as a kid? I think they were called 'rainbow drops', and basically they were just brightly coloured rice crispies you ate dry straight from the packet. From a distance a playing field would look just like a lovely green carpet on which a small child had run with a split bag of rainbow drops trailing behind them. It would be..............
I've started so I'll finish...
I've been rather taken by my food colouring idea, though. Don't you think the world would be a brighter, happier place? I mean, council cutbacks and all you just don't see the kind of flower displays you used to see in parks and other communal areas, and I think psychedelic dog kak could go a long way to redressing the balance. You could even feed them, say, half a tin of green and half a tin of yellow and get beautiful variegated varieties. You would have to be a bit careful with some colours, though, 'cos lets face it on grass a green one would effectively be camouflaged, which would make avoidance even more tricky. Perhaps we could add chemicals that reacted to things like chlorophyl levels in the surrounding environment and adapted accordingly - sort of like chameleons or octopuses (pi?), but in reverse? That way, a brown one would turn bright green or something in dirt, but turn red if deposited in grass or on a concrete paving slab.
Maybe we should just go for multipurpose striped ones? I know they say 'red and green should never be seen' (try telling that to a parrot!), but it is conspicuous in most environments. Or maybe we could go for nature's universal warning colours and try yellow and black? On the downside, that might scare off natural poop predators (that's not the right word, but I can't think of the right one at the mo) like flies and maggits and lurchers which would be counterproductive....
Nope. I think the original idea - lots of variations contrasting with the original background colour - is the best idea. It would turn something ugly into something beautiful, and lets face it, we all need a bit more of that in our lives
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