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Kirislin

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  1. Hey me too! I've lived here for almost 12 years and just the last 3 days have I started feeding the butcher birds. they learn quick too. I took some pics of them today, not very good though. When I lived in Mackay many years ago I had pied butcher birds, they have the most beautiful clear flute like call and are very easily tamed, more so than these southern ones. It was the thing I missed most of all when I moved back South.
  2. I think Pennys was under $200 to have it removed and would've been another $120 to send off and have tested. I opted not to get it tested.
  3. thanks tlc. Roxy n Axle go back to the park with your proper camera, those shots would've been fantastic with a better camera!.
  4. Actually I still like this, the pointer is going one way and the lab the other, lots of movement.
  5. I was really hoping to get some time exposure shots of the kangaroos on my paddock going boing boing boing but it wasn't to be.
  6. yes Shell, I used a torch. I was going to try sparklers but I was worried the dogs would follow me outside so opted for the safer torch. I haven't got Photoshop Ash. Love the little possum. Was that at your place?
  7. OK, here's my long exposure. I cant tell you how many times I tried to write my name backwards but eventually gave up and went for something easier.
  8. Love the horse ones, what a display! Sorry about the 50mm Shell, dont chuck it out. Are you sure it's broken, I've heard of people dropping them and just putting them back together again.
  9. mine are listed under my siggy. I love the 50 and the 100 but I dont like the kit lenses, well I hardly ever use the 18-55 but the 75-300 cant really cope with the type of photos I want to take, although I've taken a few nice pics with it, I would like a better quality, faster lens some day that can cope with whippets at full speed heading straight for me.
  10. so, it's tomorrow already!! and I am about to take the whippies out for a walk. I usually take the camera with me. Come on Ash get outta bed!!
  11. seems reasonable when you look at the price on Canons site. http://www.canon.com.au/products/cameras/digital_slr.html I bought the 400D a little over a year ago and didn't know much. It seems a bit daunting when you first see all the controls and the manual but little by little you'll learn. I think the 450d would be a great first camera. I have to say I am not thrilled with my kit lenses but they aren't the IS ones which I suspect yours will be. I personally wish I'd just bought the body and got my lenses separately.
  12. I've had whippets with cut pads. the first time I got it stitched and it was a waste of time....and money. The second time I bandaged it and made a little leather boot for her when she went outside. It healed really well and fairly quickly, about 3 weeks, which might seem alot but I didn't restrict her at all, just kept it bandaged, oh, and I used Manuka honey. Looking at yours I think I'd bandage it during the day as it is right on the underneath of her paw. I could imagine gunk to get forced into it. If you want it get some air time then remove the bandage at night. That's what I think I would do if it were my dog. Hope it heals OK.
  13. Is that what they'd be called? I want to put some of those little satchets that take the moisture away, into my camera bag and where I store my lenses. Anyone know where I'd buy them, alternatively, how do you store your gear to keep the dreaded fungus away?
  14. Glad she's OK but you were right to be concerned. Sounds like she did have an upset tummy and thankfully it's passed now. It's good that you are observant and know her moods and ways. Never just shrug it off, this probably wont be the last time she has an off day. You sound like a good "dad"
  15. can you make her a really cosy sheltered area outside? I am loathe to say put a dog outside, but I have whippets and they're alot more sensitive to cold. If you could coat her and have a warm draught free area with lots of blankets for her to snuggle in and under, at least then she could toddle off and wee to her hearts content outside.
  16. I just had the very same problem with Feather about a month ago. Yes, too much bone for her little body even though they regularly get them. The vet x rayed her and we could see that thankfully in her case it was just some very hard poo, not an actual bone fragment. He sent me home with Lectade and instructions to give her 30mls an hour until I go to bed. I did as instructed but I am a light sleeper so every time I woke she got another 30mls. By morning I'd got almost 500mls into her, she's just a little thing so thats a fair bit. Interestingly with all that fluid she didn't go out for a wee once, it worked just enough to give her cementy poos enough moisture to allow her to pass them. dont take offence at mr red. There are nasty people on this forum but that poster certainly isn't one of them. I am certain she didn't mean to have a go at you.
  17. do you have to return the broken one. If not I wonder if it's worth getting it fixed as well. If it's as good as new maybe you could fix it and sell it.
  18. They would have to eat alot of apple seeds and make sure they broke open the husk to get sick from them. I buy boxes of seconds apples when in season and let my whippets help themselves. The ones I try to stop them eating is the nectarine pips. They pull the whole fruit off the tree and mostly leave the pips but sometimes they break them open and eat the insides, but apples and pears? I dont worry.
  19. Try this first, you have nothing to loose, get a lump of wood and wrap some very coarse sand paper around it, even tack it on if you want and then try filing the dogs nails with it. I saw George Schofield use it once and it was great. I dont have trouble trimming my dogs nails fortunately but if I did, I'd try this way first.
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