Terry sounds like the fun I and friends had sledding down sands hills inland of Sydneys Cronulla Beach.
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Zman
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Grier
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Now in our nice Autumn around Perth I've been riding my motorbike a lot more. Soon a big ride up to a mate's little farm east of Northam.
I prefer open face helmets with a clear visor to see more and to be more in the moment.
It gives a very different perspective from a being in a car.
Some how Zman, I feel decades younger riding my motorbike. There are lots of new freeway/highway interchanges around me with lovely big curves one way and another.
Time also to get back on my bicycle .
I prefer open face helmets with a clear visor to see more and to be more in the moment.
It gives a very different perspective from a being in a car.
Some how Zman, I feel decades younger riding my motorbike. There are lots of new freeway/highway interchanges around me with lovely big curves one way and another.
Time also to get back on my bicycle .
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Oh yes from 20 onwards. I know I'd have made some alternate choices than I took back then. Specially my life partner...
Grier
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Hindsight is easier when old and looking back at the forks in our lives' journeys.
I wish I'd done many things differently too, but I didn't. It was my past self making those choices, not who I am now. Still, stuff-ups serve as great lessons, and worse as anchors.
I wish I'd done many things differently too, but I didn't. It was my past self making those choices, not who I am now. Still, stuff-ups serve as great lessons, and worse as anchors.
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I am proud when we Aussies produce world firsts.
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Grier
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Nature seems to give us many clean ways to generate electricity,I am proud when we Aussies produce world firsts.
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Grier
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My inherited cat after a mate died 6 months ago is a real handful and I've teed up to surrender her to the Cat Haven's branch locally for me.
She's turned my home routine upside down with several very difficult behaviours. Especially about food. I'll spare the details.
Having an afternoon nap today
she jumped up and slept with me half on my lap purring away.
When's she's nice it's all good but at other times she's a real menace. She stalks, kills and eats the little Skink lizards in my garden beds, and then vomits them up often on my floors and carpets ....
I've booked her into a handover next Tuesday, all paperwork sorted and copied.
But, I'm having second thoughts. I used lots of training techniques on her, consistently too, and have taught her a lot. For example, she ripped to pieces the arms of my old mate's arm chairs with impunity. Now she only scratches on 3 trees I deemed hers. Super clean toilet wise, .. never strays, ... So many plusses, and perhaps I'm at a point of inflection with curbing her worst behaviours? She's a little less demanding now as I ignore her plaintive cries.
Apparently there are Animal Behaviorists who could help?
She really is a lovely cat when she's behaved.
I don't even mind her waking me up in the morning for her breakfast.
I'm too soft my sister in Sydney tells me.
She's turned my home routine upside down with several very difficult behaviours. Especially about food. I'll spare the details.
Having an afternoon nap today
she jumped up and slept with me half on my lap purring away.When's she's nice it's all good but at other times she's a real menace. She stalks, kills and eats the little Skink lizards in my garden beds, and then vomits them up often on my floors and carpets ....
I've booked her into a handover next Tuesday, all paperwork sorted and copied.
But, I'm having second thoughts. I used lots of training techniques on her, consistently too, and have taught her a lot. For example, she ripped to pieces the arms of my old mate's arm chairs with impunity. Now she only scratches on 3 trees I deemed hers. Super clean toilet wise, .. never strays, ... So many plusses, and perhaps I'm at a point of inflection with curbing her worst behaviours? She's a little less demanding now as I ignore her plaintive cries.
Apparently there are Animal Behaviorists who could help?
She really is a lovely cat when she's behaved.
I don't even mind her waking me up in the morning for her breakfast.
I'm too soft my sister in Sydney tells me.
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If your cat is company for you Terry keep him.
We had our new puppy neutered yesterday and so to stop him chewing the wound and stitches we applied a cone, after which he proceeded to run round madly bumping into everything. Hilarious. We will be taking him for his first outside walkies when his stitches are removed.
We had our new puppy neutered yesterday and so to stop him chewing the wound and stitches we applied a cone, after which he proceeded to run round madly bumping into everything. Hilarious. We will be taking him for his first outside walkies when his stitches are removed.
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Grier
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Craig, my dog had similar wearing a neck cone after stitches. They don't like it but it's necessary. Feeding and drinking ok?
Good luck with your puppies first walk Craig. I always favour a body harness rather than a collar when your dog's on a lead. I worry yanking on a collar might cause neck damage, as I suspected with my mad Max miniature Pincer decades ago. He did pull at his lead with gay abandon. He was a pocket rocket whom I harnessed.
The best leads I reckon are the retractable ones. Spring loaded and a feed up to 3 metres or close with a lock. They're still fairly cheap, ie $20 to $30 at most.
It allows your furry friend to have a good sniff here and there with you in full control. It might even instill that habit of circling about you even when off the lead.
I've been thinking and vacillating about my passed mate's cat, and think I will have to surrender her after all. She's a lovely cat, but I really don't want the 24/7 task any more. She's too much for me as I slip into my dottage.
I ran though in my head all the extra time, effort and stress she causes me, despite all my efforts and training, ... it wasn't enough. My little dog is wonderfully polite, easily trained a decade ago. I've been ignoring him with the bad cat taking so much of my time.
I want my life, my time, and home back again, and more time with my old chihuahuaX dog whom she attacks. She still stalks him pounching and swiping at his face. She's bitten and scratched me too ... thieved food off my plate, larder, frypan, ... sits on my kitchen bench which I must spray and wipe down 2×/day, torn and broken things, ...vomited all around my home and carpets, killed many little lizards in my yards later vomiting up her meals. I have to feed her 20gm 4 or 5 times a day with her special diet of grain free furball biscuits, cooked chicken breast mince, mackerel, a little Broccoli to ease digestion. Sometimes even some Prawns or Salmon.... just leftovers of mine.
My little old dog has now learned to cry/whimper for food from the cat, which I do find interesting and amusing.
Good luck with your puppies first walk Craig. I always favour a body harness rather than a collar when your dog's on a lead. I worry yanking on a collar might cause neck damage, as I suspected with my mad Max miniature Pincer decades ago. He did pull at his lead with gay abandon. He was a pocket rocket whom I harnessed.
The best leads I reckon are the retractable ones. Spring loaded and a feed up to 3 metres or close with a lock. They're still fairly cheap, ie $20 to $30 at most.
It allows your furry friend to have a good sniff here and there with you in full control. It might even instill that habit of circling about you even when off the lead.
I've been thinking and vacillating about my passed mate's cat, and think I will have to surrender her after all. She's a lovely cat, but I really don't want the 24/7 task any more. She's too much for me as I slip into my dottage.
I ran though in my head all the extra time, effort and stress she causes me, despite all my efforts and training, ... it wasn't enough. My little dog is wonderfully polite, easily trained a decade ago. I've been ignoring him with the bad cat taking so much of my time.
I want my life, my time, and home back again, and more time with my old chihuahuaX dog whom she attacks. She still stalks him pounching and swiping at his face. She's bitten and scratched me too ... thieved food off my plate, larder, frypan, ... sits on my kitchen bench which I must spray and wipe down 2×/day, torn and broken things, ...vomited all around my home and carpets, killed many little lizards in my yards later vomiting up her meals. I have to feed her 20gm 4 or 5 times a day with her special diet of grain free furball biscuits, cooked chicken breast mince, mackerel, a little Broccoli to ease digestion. Sometimes even some Prawns or Salmon.... just leftovers of mine.
My little old dog has now learned to cry/whimper for food from the cat, which I do find interesting and amusing.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Totally understandable, Terry. You undoubtedly tried your best and endured more than is tolerable but it did not change the situation. How can you surrender her, I wonder? It wouldn't be easy at my end as it would fully depend on the vet or the animal shelter offering vacancies.