The Lion, the Keeper and the Dealer

I’m torn. Am I pleased that finally the people of Northern Ireland can’t just go out and buy tigers and wolves and cobras and keep them in their sheds? Or am I a bit sad that uniformity now reigns and, 30 years after the rest of Britain introduced wild animals legislation, Northern Ireland has been brought into line?

I really don’t know. But either way, here’s a show you probably wouldn’t have seen (unless you live in Northern Ireland, of course) without iPlayer. It’s a doc about the long delayed introduction to the North of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act and the tribe of borderline nutters affected by it. The narrator has plenty of deadpan lines like: “finally Wildlife Northern Ireland get a call to investigate an alleged unlicenced wolf”

This, by the way, is the charm of Watchification. I could have linked to an interview with Bill Gates or an amazing Doctor Who but no, I linked to a programme about Wildlife weirdos in Northern Ireland.