WE’VE just had an old lady come in to the Visitor office.

A shouting, threatening old lady with a big black dog to back her up.

The reason for her visit was an article written by our news editor Martin Williams last week, about dogs being left out on Rhyl High Street.

They bark constantly and disrupt our working day. It’s irritating. Martin wrote the words. I took the pictures.

So here I was this morning, putting together a nib about the George Formby Appreciation Society, when in she walks.

“I want to talk to the editor,” she shouts.
“That’s me,” says Martin. “What’s the problem?”

The old woman, whose name we still do not know, then goes on to shout about how we have no right to take photos of her animal and how he doesn’t bark and is only there for a short period anyway.

Ho-hum.

“Have you ever had your purse stolen?” she asked. “I have even had youths coming up to me in the street and asking me for money.”

“That dog is my protection,” she said. “How dare you ever say that my dog is out there in the cold for hours on end?”

“My dog is better looked after than some of the children in the High Street.”

The woman left and to test out her theory, I ventured onto the High Street. As I opened the door, a family walked past.

“Mummy,” said a little girl. “That big dog was barking at me.”

It was raining as I strolled 20 yards further up High Street. The dog was tied to a drainpipe. The angry woman was nowhere to be seen.

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