Puppy power

Havingwatchedpaultheoctopus “predict” match results at a previous World Cup I was amused to see the animals that have been put forward to predict games played in Russia this year. You have to wonder what someone dealing in probabilities and statistics makes of the choices made by a cat, raccoon, otter, reindeer, hippo, meerkat and turtle.

This afternoon I observed a young puppy, unsteady on his legs, his eyes opened for less than a week, purposely searching an area of various newspapers, choose to stop on a renewable energy supplement and defecate on a picture of a wind turbine. I don’t know what the statisticians would think about it but it looked to me as though a barely threeweek-old puppy had more of a carefully considered opinion on industrial wind turbines than all the energy ministers in Scotland over the last decade put together.

LYNDSEY WARD Darach Brae, Beauly Inverness Well I never! I’ve been waiting for some females to play in this current World Cup kicking-the-ball game, but it turns out it’s for males only. Fifa should have said! Whatever happened to equality? If they have the Women’s World Cup, why don’t they also have the Men’s World Cup (rather than just the World Cup)?

RM ATKINSON Argyll Terrace,, Edinburgh