SIR: May I respond to two current letters - 'Two bites allowed' (Your views, July 4) about this business of dogs being allowed bites! An entitlement!

Bite whom? Bite him or her where? Bite a chunk out? Bite a child's leg off?

I have heard: "He's had his bite, you know." His bite! An achievement!

You could picture a scene, a dog coming home. "Well, have you had your bite yet?" It is enough to make a boxer (man, not dog) want to bite an opponent's ear! Very Tyson - sorry, tiresome!

"Is this really chewing gum?" (Your views, July 8) D Yemm's suggestion is intriguing. But would patches of lichen be so uniform in size? Are the patches on D Yemm's stepping stones and flagstones as uniform?

Raymond Dean

Wilmslow Avenue, Sharples

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