“Actually, I Probably Would Drink Dog’s Milk” Says Bendigo Man

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

A Bendigo man travelling to Melbourne for a routine heart angiogram has confirmed this morning that, under the right conditions, he would consume milk from a dog.

Darryl Fenwick, a 60-year-old semi-retired lawyer, made the admission while stationary in traffic on the Calder Freeway after seeing a PETA billboard which read, “If you wouldn’t drink dog’s milk, why drink cow’s milk?”

Fenwick said he paused to consider the message before reaching a personal conclusion.

“I reckon I would, yeah,” he said, speaking to himself inside his 2018 Honda Accord.

“If it was clean. In a cup. I’d drink it.”

The billboard, located near a Shell service station in Sunbury, is part of a national campaign by PETA urging Australians to reconsider their relationship with animal products. However, it appears to have had an unintended effect on the proud Central Victorian man.

Fenwick is self-described milk enjoyer. He said the message forced him into an unexpected moment of introspection.

“I don’t know why people draw the line at cows. If the dog’s healthy and it’s all above board, I don’t really care where the milk’s from,” he said.

“If the dog consents to giving me milk, who is to stand in the way?”

Asked what type of dog he would consider acceptable for milking, Fenwick said he prefer a smaller breed, citing “a Jack Russell or something like that.”

Fenwick added that he would even consider drinking directly from the source, like the lady depicted in the billboard’s image.

“If no one ever found out about it, I probably would.”

Fenwick said he will continue drinking cow’s milk until dog milk becomes commercially available or someone offers him a go.

More to come.