Kirislin

There's some pretty big jumps good photos, I bet the riders would love to see some of them.

what a good experience for you. It must have felt pretty good to see your own photo up there on display, I've never done it, so I can only imagine.

I always love these destruction photos with the dogs sitting innocently by, as if butter wouldn't melt in their mouths.

very cute, I'd love to mount one of them to a whippets back, that'd be quite a ride!

I agree with the advice getting to know the breeder. Although I bought Kibah sight unseen, I'd met the breeder when he came over here for the whippet champ show. I liked his whippets and I kept in touch. I know he also did some checking up on me, which I thought was a good thing, especially when he then decided I would be a suitable owner for one of his puppies.

no need to apologise :D I just assumed the way I read it that you must have had 4 new additions to the household, it wouldn't be all that bad if you did would it? ;) they're all very cute. So what was their story, was it on a property or just by the side of the road that you saw them all together, the piggies seem very used to the puppy.

Oh! thought when you wrote about the benefits of shopping in country towns that's what you bought!!! I was serious!!!! :laugh:

so did you buy all 3 piggies and the puppy!?

Im just flabbergastered that they think they can get away with it !! The problem is they DO get away with it! There will always be gullible consumers and it is these types they prey on. I have never understood why anyone would buy a puppy unseen and have it shipped to them when, for most breeds, there are breeders within a reasonable distance. The common thing I guess is price.... but then there is the age old saying of "if it's too good to be true, then it probably isn't." I bought a puppy unseen from interstate. That's my beautiful Kibah who is now 12 years old. I also sold a puppy to an interstate home, she is now rising 9 and her owner contacted me recently to see if I knew of any others with similar bloodlines because she loves her so much. Sight unseen purchases aren't always rip offs and mistakes, but I think it takes a bit of research and (un)common sense these days.

what are the symptoms of botulism? I recall lots of valuable thoroughbred horses dying awful deaths from it at the sales one year. So sad for the zoo to lose the rhinos, I hope they can find and stop it happening to anymore, we cant afford to lose them.

are they "wild/feral" pigs? very cute.

aah yes, that sounds right, I'll claim a senior moment too Perse since I think we're about the same age. :laugh:

nah, I dont think it's a cicade, maybe some kind of leaf bug?

that green bug looks like it's pursing its lips, puckering up for a kiss :laugh: and is that lizard really called a ta ta? I've never heard of it.

It's pretty cheap right now through DWI but then so is the 5D since the new model's come out.

they're lovely photos, beautiful young pup too. How sad so many are put down.

I'd be interested to know what the dramas were too, can you ask them? I got some cards for a friend and they were the same price as ones I'd bought previously but the quality had gone down, they were thinner card and the photos were grainer, I dont think that was my camera, I think it was their printing. Oh, and they weren't packaged indiviually as they used to be, they were all stuffed in one bag.

I still have my account but I hardly sold any calendars last season because of the postage price hike and also, once again they underpaid me. It took weeks of back and forth emails to get them to cough up. I dont think I'll be using them for my whippet club calendars anymore.

$30 is a very expensive toy, what was it?

so did you buy it or did you tell her to take a hike. It was already on the floor, who knows how it got there or what germs it had picked up already. Perhaps she was kidding, I could imagine saying something like that as a joke. I think if that's their policy they should have signs up saying so, I also think they shouldn't leave the toys laying on the floor!

I'm wondering why you cant put in on your right shoulder? I have a black rapid and I think I could wear it on my right if I wanted to, although must confess to never trying. Mine might be a different model, it doesn't go on my camera, it's permanently fixed onto my big lens.

cropping can make or break a photo, it gives you a second chance at composition that might save an ordinary or even off photo into a perfect one. I agree with Snook in the case of your first bird, the litte wren, it's a bit too tight, but that's OK, you still have the original to play around with. Have you heard of the rule of thirds? there's lots of explanations of it online and have a look at these images with the grid overlaid, you'll get the idea. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22rule+of+thirds%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=mgy&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=a5VjT8KTCMm4iQfG3NDIBQ&ved=0CEMQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=581

Kirty I dont know what they do, can you please explain your concern? What are the negative side effects, he didn't say anything about them. I have had Georgia out when Penny had her first bad neck spasms but it was almost a week before she could come and by then Penny was mostly over it. She massaged her and could see she had restricted movement.I asked the vet about Cartrophen injections but he wanted to see how she responded to the Meloxicam first. She certainly seems alot better but I'm not sure if she would be the same without the treatment, perhaps her painful episode had come to an end anyway.

Well that sounds encouraging. :)

and yet you consider the racebred side of greyhounds, which have only been around for 100 years, to be the correct one :laugh: again you have drawn the wrong conclusion from what I've said. Show away, and good luck to you winning your ribbons.