Author Topic: A random thread for the wildlife stuff - you know the drill (Read 135019 times)

Peter · « **Reply #275 on:** 03 August, 2016, 07:05:19 pm »

My feminist marxist dialectic brings all the boys(and dogs) to the yard?

JonBuoy · « **Reply #276 on:** 29 August, 2016, 04:54:24 pm »

Deer collides with competitor at Dublin city triathlon

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It is understood the deer has also recovered.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #277 on:** 11 September, 2016, 12:18:19 am »

This is a public service announcement

http://www.iizcat.com/post/3795/Naked-man-bends-over-to-fix-sink-and-playful-kitten-decides-to-ruin-his-life

jsabine · « **Reply #278 on:** 13 September, 2016, 01:30:37 am »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 September, 2016, 12:18:19 am

This is a public service announcement

http://www.iizcat.com/post/3795/Naked-man-bends-over-to-fix-sink-and-playful-kitten-decides-to-ruin-his-life

Snopes, almost inevitably, suggests that variants on this ~~shaggy~~spiky ~~dog~~cat story have been around since at least 1964 (and quotes ones from '74 and '98 as well).

Dibdib · « **Reply #279 on:** 16 September, 2016, 02:24:33 pm »

"Dog" by Bottle Rockets.

So good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1vfWjRxo1Y

hellymedic · « **Reply #280 on:** 22 September, 2016, 04:56:20 pm »

Spare Rib...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37439155

hellymedic · « **Reply #281 on:** 06 November, 2016, 02:00:43 pm »

A Facebook friend has just posted the sad demise of his sister's alpacas from a 'mystery illness'.
Abode was in Leighton Buzzard.

I am totally without Clue in these matters but thought maybe somebody here might know something...

Ruthie · « **Reply #282 on:** 06 November, 2016, 08:34:07 pm »

Oh, that's sad. Alpacas are lovely.

hellymedic · « **Reply #283 on:** 15 November, 2016, 10:36:02 am »

Bin man finds python on streets of Highgate.
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/snake-highgate

Jakob · « **Reply #284 on:** 17 November, 2016, 12:49:42 am »

In Canada, even the polar bears are polite:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/arctic-churchill-polar-bears-dogs-cuddle-1.3850535

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #285 on:** 25 November, 2016, 12:34:16 pm »

Today I walked past a tabby & white cat which was sitting on a bin shouting at passers-by. I stopped for a chat and we became quite friendly. An hour later, going back the other way, she was still there and we had a lovely cuddle and conversation.

In the hour in between, I was with a client who has just got a 17 week Old English Bulldog puppy. He's gorgeous. He's just learned to give a paw and is so excited by his new trick that he kept doing it, even when he was lying on his back on the sofa.

Steph · « **Reply #286 on:** 04 December, 2016, 09:10:47 pm »

From today Lidl are doing small spotter scopes for £24.99. Basic stuff, but more than adequate and a bargain for the price. I have one already.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #287 on:** 04 December, 2016, 10:32:21 pm »

Aw feck, I was just in there today.

Steph · « **Reply #288 on:** 05 December, 2016, 12:23:03 am »

http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=39680

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #289 on:** 13 December, 2016, 08:24:45 pm »

Recently I signed up to catinaflat.com and tonight I went to meet my first potential booking. I will be doing two visits a day for Ralph, who is a beautiful creamy-with-goldy-stripes British shorthair sentient cushion. Over new year and the first week of January, £100 for me, kerching.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #290 on:** 17 December, 2016, 03:54:21 pm »

Sad news for those of us who loved The Bear

http://www.tom-cox.com/2016/12/goodbye-kind-friend-rip-bear-1995-2016.html

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #291 on:** 17 December, 2016, 05:22:43 pm »

tiermat · « **Reply #292 on:** 30 December, 2016, 11:56:36 am »

Went to meet friends, yesterday, for a post-Xmas walk and lunch.

One of said friends has a Catalan Sheepdog, called Monty.

Monty is the coolest, cutest dog I have ever met, he let me walk him for about 6 miles and I loved every minute of it.

Today is being spent checking out where we might be able to adopt a Catalan sheepdog.

FWIW Monty looks like this, only a little patchier in his hair as he had to have a complete haircut, after being rescued:

mattc · « **Reply #293 on:** 15 January, 2017, 08:13:58 am »

Sorry, I don't know my way around this board - but I had to post this somewhere! From the BBC not-news section:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0A7A/production/_93328620_0101snowturkeygetty.jpg
A shepherdess herds a goat flock during snowy conditions in Mus, Turkey, on 1 January.

T42 · « **Reply #294 on:** 11 February, 2017, 02:50:56 pm »

Noticed a fleck of birdshit on a new cordless drill I left on a bench in the workshop. I haven't had a bird fly in there for years, but after poking round a bit I found a complete nest in the cut-off end of an old stovepipe that goes out through the back wall. I'll put a bit of fine-mesh wire netting over it and convert it to a nesting-box.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #295 on:** 17 February, 2017, 02:05:29 pm »

Cat webcam http://nutiminn.is/kattarshians/

Andrij · « **Reply #296 on:** 21 February, 2017, 03:09:10 pm »

A friend across the pond has managed to snap a decent picture of a bald eagle, which he says regularly perches outside his office window.

Pingu · « **Reply #297 on:** 25 February, 2017, 10:18:28 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 February, 2017, 02:05:29 pm

Cat webcam http://nutiminn.is/kattarshians/

Kitten Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPv9yKC76hE

T42 · « **Reply #298 on:** 07 March, 2017, 03:33:13 pm »

Just heard on the radio that malefactors have poached a rhino for its horn in a zoo at Toiry, in the Paris area.

hellymedic · « **Reply #299 on:** 09 March, 2017, 11:32:37 am »

Frogs in Finchley!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39214332