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Hello; I happen to agree with this comment. One of my neighbors has a dog i like and keep milkbone biscuits for.
.....my previous mail carrier would bring treats for my dog,he looked forward to it but the new carrier hasn't gotten around to that yet.
 
my previous mail carrier would bring treats for my dog,he looked forward to it but the new carrier hasn't gotten around to that yet.

The relationship between dogs and postmen has been a torrid one since time began!

I suspect your wise original postman learnt the hard way in his early career that carrying dog treats would make the job a whole lot less stressful, lol.
 
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The relationship between dogs and postmen has been a torrid one since time began!

I suspect your wise original postman learnt the hard way in his early career that carrying dog treats would make the job a whole lot less stressful, lol.
Agreed...on both points.
 
. I was a Boy Scout and later an Eagle Scout. Fortunately, the troop leaders I knew did not molest us.

That is fortunate.

Do you guys know why this has happened yet?
I was in the aussie equivalent when i was a kid, fortunately not molested either. I do wonder what parents were thinking though, they send a bunch of 11 year olds off for a weekend to sleep in a cabin with some fat guy with a beard they barely know and only see briefly twice a week when they drop you off and pick you up from scouts. People must have been much more trusting in the old days.
I enjoyed the experience, in the end a lot of kids dropped out of our and another group so they merged into one and i was stripped of my rank. I had a tantrum when i got home and quit.

I will be amused if it is a woke gender thing (i wouldnt like the idea personally) but people get more outraged about that than the decades of abuse and sodomy that went on.
 
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From the link. "The announcement comes five years after the organization began including girls into scout programs. The organization said it has more than 176,000 girls in its programs, including 6,000 who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout."

Hello; Seems the name change makes a sort of sense. Smacks of economics to a degree as well. Back when I was 11 or 12 years old having girls in Troop 32 would not have appealed to me at all. By the time i was an Explorer scout I likely would have changed my mind.
 
From the link. "The announcement comes five years after the organization began including girls into scout programs. The organization said it has more than 176,000 girls in its programs, including 6,000 who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout."

Hello; Seems the name change makes a sort of sense. Smacks of economics to a degree as well. Back when I was 11 or 12 years old having girls in Troop 32 would not have appealed to me at all. By the time i was an Explorer scout I likely would have changed my mind.
.....did the Boy Scouts ever sell cookies or anything else?
 
I suspect economics played a very large part, with regards to the inclusion of non boys.
 
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