A life miscast

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croc

Re: A life miscast

Post by croc » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:28 pm

Howyadooin Maureen.
I read every page in the Windows Operating System, trying to get that link to play the game... but it didn’t want to know. But... as soon as I shot it through the wire, it worked fine on the site. Ripping good stuff this modern techno.
Yeah, those Dingo pups are cute; reading Hully’s post, I found it to be a breath of fresh air. Most likely the reason you have found nothing about the dingo photo is pretty much down to the fact that no one has put it up there, because it would have happened a bloody long time before Google, and no one involved thought too much of it ...and forgot about it. So... if you still have that photo, and any text with it, why don’t you put it on Google. That would be something.
Yeah; pigs and bloody roos. I jus hit a little roo, I think it was a male walleroo and the damage to the underside of my ute is pretty bad... to say nothing of the fact that its costing me more in oil at press than it is in petrol. It’s ‘booked in’ to old mate down at the workshops. Pigs round here are pretty bad. Old mate down the way has a 1000 acres of Lucerne... it’s a pigs picnic. There were six of them crossing the road a few weeks back now, and I missed them but hoped like hell that the semi behind me would score one at least, but he missed them all as well. Get a bounty on pigs. All the pigs up around Longreach and surrounding channel country know where they live because there are a lot of roo shooters up there... and any dead pig is a good pig.
At one stage I had nine dogs, and if you cannot maintain being the pack leader, get the rspca to move the lot out because once the pack mentality gets a go... they will bloody eat you, and then go feral... breed feral x feral == wild dog. That is the one that needs stopping dead in the water. I wouldn’t even trust the individual dog... he has to eat, and a sheep is much easier to catch than a rabbit. Then there is the breed to consider... big nasty buggar with a touch of terrier, working dog that pretty well knows the score and nature does the rest. There is a very fine line between herding and hunting... terriers are bastards for it, from the smallest to the largest; all breeds and cross breeds in between... and try to contain a terrier... good luck. A little fat lamb is much easier to catch than a little fat rabbit.
‘Latch-key dogs’ are a bloody menace... buggar it, what am I saying... ALL dogs are a bloody menace... if not kept as a domestic dog should be kept. And the biggest bloody problem that any and all domestic dogs have, unless owned by dedicated dog lovers and not simply ‘dog owners’... is diet and the right time to feed that diet. They get ‘table scraps’, become a digestion tract open at both ends... up goes the protein, everything gets out of balance, the blood heats up and they are orf at first chance; most likely hungry. It should be made mandatory that it be as difficult to keep a dog as it is to keep a firearm. Basic tests for diet, coat and dental care, basic poor health symptoms, stuff like that, and then issue a licence to procure the pup, get it jabbed up and registered and receive the full permit to keep the dog. It’s not rocket science and the sooner the blokes in Canberra set it up that way, and the sooner the blokes with the rifles start work on a paid deal, the sooner the poor bloody dingo will fade into a safe and happy retirement... hopefully. I have seen one pack of feral dogs, and it’s bloody frightening.
I don’t know that they would be after the horse because dogs don’t have a killing bite, and a horse is pretty bloody impressive once he gets all four hooves kicking at once... most likely after one or more of the foster animals. Sadly, a Maltese terrier would have as much hope as a snowball in hells kitchen. Staffy’s are a lovely natured dog but can be pretty ‘defensive’. They have a nasty bite if they lock on. Restraining a dog is not that easy, they have never forgotten the ‘Wolf’.
Go well Maureen...
...c

Hully, old mate... good to converse with you again.
Mate... you are like a bloom in spring’ my sentiments absolutely. Oh yes. I thought that only I thought like that and it had me worried as to the fact I might be ‘different’. Good to know that I have a brother at arms, I don’t understand what you mean though by ‘the landscape has been managed to accommodate the Merino’. It has always been my reality that the Merino was a Spanish breed, fairly heat tolerable, and could live on less than most sheep and gave fine wool; bonus. Hence the transport from Spain to Australia. I may well be wrong but that’s the way the teacher taught it.
The suggestion you make and the reasons you give are so bloody true. I would have thought by now that nearly everyone in the whole world would know that if you tamper with nature you will lose. Once you alter the food chain, you have buggared it big time; the longer you take to restore it and the damage increases by the power of ten. Towards the end of the last drought, Glenny and I drove down to Melbourne. Between here and there we never saw a blade of anything green. The animals were licking the sunshine orf the rocks to survive, but one decent wet and the pestilence are again in plague proportions. I like the sound of old mate tony abbot. He’ll sort it out if someone puts him in the picture; no doubt.

The ‘rant’ was well worth ‘the read’ man.
...croc

croc

Re: A life miscast

Post by croc » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:50 pm

Yeah Marty,
I have only seen one feral pack... about six from medium to big and led by a rottweiler. I never want to see another. 'Friightening' is not a big enough word mate.
...croc

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Re: A life miscast

Post by r.magnay » Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:41 am

...saw a mob of camp dogs kill and eat one of their own once, a bit sickening and also a bit scary, it was away in the scrub in an abandon community....and we camped there!
Ross

croc

Re: A life miscast

Post by croc » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:11 pm

I don't think Dingoes do that... do they Ross?

...c

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Re: A life miscast

Post by r.magnay » Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:34 am

No, not to my knowledge croc, dingoes are generally more solitary animals, this mob of camp dogs had no doubt been used to living in the camp situation, when the people up traps and left they had to fight to survive, mind you, when the people are still there the camp dogs find it pretty hard to make a living too....I have probably something like a million stories (give or take) I could relate about that situation too.....but I won't!
Ross

croc

Re: A life miscast

Post by croc » Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:39 am

Yeah Ross...
It's a whole sad new world when one looks into the daily life of the 'domestic dog'. It is far and away too easy to own one, and when the cute puppy bit wears orf, so does a lot of the much needed care and attention. The poor bloody dog has no way of comunicating to those who can't speak 'dog language'.

Take care Ross and be happy...
...c

warooa

Re: A life miscast

Post by warooa » Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:10 am

Too true, croc . . . s'pose it's the same everywhere, but up here there's been a big increase in the number working dogs being abandoned at shelters since that Red Dog film. All those numptys who thought how 'cute' it'd be to have their own then couldn't offer the companionship and mental and physical stimulation required. It is just absolutely irresponsible and unfair and cruel on the poor animals.

Marty

ps. Enjoyed your Life Miscast ;)

croc

Re: A life miscast

Post by croc » Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:34 pm

G'day Marty...
My all time favourite singer is also called Marty... Marty Robbins. In my opinion he is the best there ever was or is. Thanks for enjoying the poem mate.

Bloody 'Red Dog' was serialised on local radio Queensland... it came on at 4:30 every morning until it finished, and I would 'listen' to it because I had to go to work at 5:00am and I needed the radio for the time... it was most probably the worst bit of crap I have ever heard... purile and tormenting to the ears, and I wondered at the time how many kids would sucker their parents into getting a Red Dog for them. You have just answered that question.

The dingo (like a lot of other things) is far too easy to blame when no one wants to admit that there is a greater problem.

Yer a fine bloke mate...
...croc

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