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Kirislin: Canon 7D, 50m 1.4, 100mm macro, 70-200. Bellatrix: Canon 5D Mark II, 50mm 1.4 (and the 1.8), 24-70mm 2.8L, 100mm 2.8 Macro, Speedlite 580EX II JS: Canon 1000D, kit 18mm-55mm & 55mm-250mm, 50mm 1.8, Speedlite 580EX II SchnuzaeryBoy: Nikon D80, Nikon D700, 50 1.8, 18-50 2.8, 28-80 3.5-4, 24-70 2.8, 70-200 2.8, SB-400, SB-900, 1.4x TC, 2x TC Becandcharch: Canon 40D, 50mm 1.4, Speedlite 580EX II and a kit lens I dont even know what it is as I never use it! persephone :point&shootonly here Fuji finepixS8000sfd and a sony cybershot DSCN1 Ellz: P&S only here too: Olympus SP600UZ and Sony Cybershot DSC-S650 MavericksMission: Canon 450D, 18-55mm & 55-250mm Evolving: Canon 500D, 50mm 1.8, 18-55mm & 55-250mm Mish13 : Sony A700, 16-80 F3.5,90mm F2.8,11-18mm F4.5,18-250mm F3.5, 75-300mm F4.5 (Bellatrix, you have my dream camera) CrazyCresties: Lumix TZ65 and my Canon (which is still in storage for another month!) 350D 18-55mm kit lens, 70-300mm and 500mm Tamron mirror lens (about 20yrs old from my old Minolta but works with an adaptor!) Belgian.blue: Canon 550D 18-55mm & 55-250mm .. very soon a 50mm 1.8 and a Sony Cybershot P&S Fattima: Nikon D90, kit 18-55mm & 55-200mm

Thanks CrazyCresties and Kirislin

So many great photos in these challenges - you guys are an inspiration. So, here's one shot with my new DSLR - blue and an oldie from the old point & shoot - red

Wow evolving what great shots you really have a great eye, really impressive stuff. Bruce and Anna

There is a mega pet warehouse in Dandenong and one in Ringwood Megapet

Glad you like it, MM cobwebs are an optional extra I got the bungee from Mega Pet Warehouse It is a good place they do not animals so we like to use them.

I mentioned this in the pointer thread and I thought I would share how I built this for Roky and Kiki. It only took an hour or two to make and was well worth it. Our dogs are not very excited by toys, Cosmolo suggested a bungee cord for them and we took it a step further. I purchased all the bits from Bunnings, all parts are Zenith brand in stainless steel where available. D shackles and pulley are galvanised, to save money you could use galvanised instead of stainless steel. You can probably get the parts cheaper from other places such as a boat supply place. Parts List 2 x eyebolts (I used 6x50mm threaded) depends on where you are going to run cable you may need screw in type $4.40 ea 2 x 5mm D shackles $5.60 for twin pack 10 meters 3mm wire rope $15.30 1 x 20mm awning pulley $4.24 2 x 3mm wire rope grips $4.37 for twin pack 2 x 6mm snap hook $8.98 1 x 5mm turn buckle $19.30 2 x 3mm thimble for wire rope $3.10 for twin pack 2 x 3mm wire rope swages $8.70 Total $87.37 Bungee cord from local pet store $20.00 Grand total $107.37 Fix eye bolts to a strong structure, how you do this is up to you. Thread one end of cable through swage and wrap wire around thimble to make a loop. Pull tight and crush swage, I used the smooth shank of a bolt in a bench vice to crush. Thread pulley onto wire. Measure how much cable you will need taking into account fully extended turn buckle. It is easiest to do this with turn buckle in place. When you are happy with measurement swage end as in step 2. Use D shackle to attach swaged end to D shackle and tension cable. Use another D shackle to go through hole in pulley then use second snap hook to go attach bungee cord to D shackle. Work out the extent you want pulley to run and attach wire rope grip to cables as stops. We put liver treats on the bungee to get the dogs interested, we also attached their toy duck to the cord. They love this tow and was well worth the effort of making it.

Our old boy had a series of fits. He was put on Phenobarb not sure the drug stopped the fits but he never had any after that. After a heap of tests we never worked out what caused it. As has already been said it can be very distressing to witness. Don't worry about not spending the money on investigation. As Erny mentions it can sometimes just be academic. When our old boy Zephyr was about 14 he developed breathing problems, an emergency vet wanted to do all kinds of invasive investigations. I had to really push her to tell me how knowing the exact cause would change his treatment. Basically it wouldn't change anything as he was too old to operate on, I think she just wanted to know. Fingers crossed that everything goes OK.

We took Roky and Kiki to this park today. It is really good, so nice to let them off for a run and to get them a bit more socialised. Thanks for the tip Smoothiegirl

Hope everything goes OK for you and Snot, such a beautiful little man.

It is a terrible thing that has happened to you, a truly heartbreaking experience. As others have mentioned please get some counseling. If you can't get to a GP easily for whatever reason you can call lifeline on 13 11 14 and they can offer assistance. Please hang in there because things do get better, they really do.

Our guys are lying inside with the aircon on but keep wanting to go outside! Anyway I can't talk I just got back from riding my bike, bloody hot out there.