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Griza try to attend some Flyball competitions (without dog). You will have hundreds of single-shots in a day of dogs approaching head-on at lightspeed, thousands if you opt to shoot machine gun. (It is more intensive practice than agility or lure coursing provide).

Rest peacefully beautiful Nash - so sorry BJ.

Smugmug was one of the first, still the one I use. They started out with high ethics and an intention of being the best and fairest, but like others who have gone under, had to compromise to stay afloat. A few dolers have been in and out of Smugmug over the years. Don't know what their intentions are with Flikr, but if Flikr was going under and needed rescuing I'm glad Smugmug have stepped in. I've closed my pro account but keep all my old dog shots there for old times sake, and now and then get an ask out of the past for a shot of a flyball dog that has gone to the bridge - wouldn't be many still around from Frodo's time. Edit to add: This spells it out a bit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/23/flickr-bought-by-smugmug-yahoo-breakup

Love it, takes me back to camera clubs and workshops and competitions. Space to walk to: the alternative need is space to have walked from - it's there in spades. Two birds in the empty area give scale and depth perception. 'Thirds' balance, and strong low support for visual stability: tick, tick.

So do I. Explain me what's wrong - it's a bit terrific actually. George is also terrific Scottsmum. I'm behind again, have a couple of almosts, but my photoshop has gone on strike, need to sort what's happened.

Full Moon tonight (30 April) - called the Pink Moon (for some reason I didn't get). It is huge though, and red-orange, must be loads of dust in the atmosphere.

Lucky kangaroos - not appearing drought affected as they are here. (That shot should be also in Wildlife in our Lives and Gardens).

Lovely to have some good news on the News, what a super dog. I also love Max being a Heeler. None of these newspeak names.

About five minutes. I had just finished reading "Goodbye My Lady" and thought I'd really like a Basenji: I also didn't know that there were any in Australia. Picked up the local paper and there was an ad for Basenji pups listed (from earliest imports: 20 or so Basenjis in the country). Picked up the phone, hopped in the car, chose my pup, joined Dogs Victoria. Breeders were wonderful, taught me to show, took my pup to Champion, bred one litter. Times were different, think it was still miles and pounds days, pre '66. (That is, breeders took people more at face value with less formalised screening).

Super Dog. Leaps tall buildings. HS Photographer had a good eye for a feature shot.

"This information is vital to many future projects throughout the scientific world." I'm just not making the connection between the quote and the good point Thistle made about showing how bad we are at identifying dogs (especially in another country where the Standards of the Breeds differ slightly, plus breeds we are not contact-familiar with are present).

Or because they inspire fear? And that's just some of the owners. Okay tongue in cheek, but they can be a challenge to manage, best suited to very dog-wise people - and not always dog-friendly as an attribute mentioned in Sandgrubber's OP post.

Have to agree - the street dogs in most developing countries have a calm attitude to life, and appearance-wise can scrub up to look lovely - need to see past the poor diet and traffic smoke. Would those like Lurchers and Basenjis be included - and Kangaroo Dogs which were the Australian bushies' dogs before the contrived crossbreeding for hunters (both yobbo and justified).

It's a bit messy though. State Law requires declared dangerous or menacing dogs to be on lead at all times. Yet under a Council by-law, some yobbo with a dog aggressive dog that has not (yet) been 'declared' can have it off lead to risk injuring others: bit late to have it declared after the damage is done, even just feeling intimidated is enough for me with off-lead dogs. Maybe I'm being over reactive because of the off-lead dogs being 'walked' past my home recently came in and did some poultry attack/killing. It just seems a stupid non-regulation and when an uncontrolled dog does the wrong thing the owner wasn't breaking a rule.

Is this un-usual? I thought the requirement for dogs in public areas to be on leads was State-wide in Vic, if not a federal Govt rule for local govt to follow. Quote is from Council information: "In the Macedon Ranges, dogs in public places are not required to be on a lead, unless the area is signed. However, this does not apply to dogs that have been declared dangerous, menacing or are restricted breed. Under state law, these dogs must be on a lead at all times when outside their owners' properties. .... If you own a dog, you must collect and remove all droppings that they leave in a public place such as a park or on a footpath."

Good series, only counts as one so you can't take a break okay. Yes I haven't been over that way for ages: went to Euroa last week to pick up an old Fowler Vacola unit, it was good to drive "up the Hume" again, - was also dry but much greener than our patch. Re the barrel cleaning - yes my Dad worked on the glassworks furnace fire-brick maintenance, similar deal, they'd have a rope tied to their legs, and when they stopped answering they'd be pulled out generally unconscious and the next bricklayer would go in. Thank dog for unions that have done away with some of the fairly barbaric work demands.

Saw Nanuk in the intro. threads, what a little gem.

Yes to that.

Thousands a year! Not questioning that it's right, have no idea, but sheesh that's huge numbers.

Early-ish morning, but the sun has a bite in it already and the ponies glad of some shade near the dam. Except Arnold, because he's so tough. And Milo, who was off stealing someone's breakfast. 13/52

Scottsmum they are super shots- that must be a trustworthy cat - or not as close as it looks. Perseph good to see Pud doing his bit for kid/dog relations.

That's great, the 'eating like a labrador', so still that joy in life - I'd thought she would have been restricted to soft and boring, yoghurt and very soft pasta etc (ice cream even) - like people after tonsils out.

Yes to think. Foxes have been known to bite people, but very seldom and (even more-so than with snakebite) only when someone is trying to be a smartarse. A woman in our area was hospitalised but had pretty much invited being bitten by the fox. The poultry killed are mostly hobby-owned: professional poultry farmers keep fairly on top of the risk, even the free range farms have fairly fail-safe controls. Lambs are targeted, but not adult sheep. But feral dogs in a pack, that is to me something terrifying and I am in total favour of higher bounties plus well-paid public servants employed as full-time dog hunters. Damage to livestock is horrendous and the risk to livelihood far greater than from a fox. I'd sign a petition for a bounty increase.

The boys down the road from me shot ten foxes over a few days recently, I don't think they bother about the bounty much, said it's not worth the fuel and time. A few days ago I kicked one off a chook near the house, still daylight (just). Missed making contact, it skitted off just in time and ran off. A few minutes later it rushed back but I'd picked up the hen, fox jumped by me, shot under the house, came out, hopped up on the deck and ran along, came back off at the same spot and ran off again. Hen survived, lost some feathers but no bite damage. Next night there were two of them sussing out the alpaca laneway, we don't shoot because of stock all around, neighbours don't like it and I'm not that keen on shooting anyway. Maybe as a last resort if the numbers build up this winter .

On fence height and material, I'm sure I've put this on Dol ages ago, but it does show a fox clambering up and over a 4ft run of cheap chicken wire (which they also eat holes to fit through if the spirit moves them). So efficient climbers, 6 ft is nothing to them, the floppy wire tops deter well, depends on their degree of hunger/motivation. The fence in the photo is also sailed over in a flying gallop without touching it if the dogs (or in this case me with camera) disturb them in a daylight hunt. A hot wire at the top of anything under 5 ft can be jumped clear of: or tumbled across no pain no gain. As with barbed wire - the opposite fence to this has a barbed top-wire which they cope with. On fox traps, Rascal are you far from your nearest Poultry Club? Quite a few of them aside from arranging helpful talks and shows and auctions and such good stuff own fox traps which members can borrow on a roster system. Someone close to us has our Club Trap at the moment, soon as they have good luck I'll be next. And it follows that your Club will have somebody or know somebody who can help with both setting it and following up as necessary. Sorry I should've mentioned that earlier, around $20 a year, great investment for chook owners, you don't have to be into showing or a chook fanatic to join.