This is why you never work with animals on live TV.

Ripple the part-mastiff one-and-a-half-year-old puppy was having none of weather reporter Mike Sobel on Canada's Global News last week as he told the people of Edmonton what they were in for, displaying all the attention any 18-month-old has when it comes to a grown-up standing and talking about numbers and other boring things when there's something to chew on directly in front of them.

We should do this to RTÉ and Met Eireann's weather presenters when they least expect it. Gerald Fleming wouldn't know what to do and it would be brilliant.

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