PossumCorner

Lost quite a few 100s of kilos to birds this year, plums, apples, pears, almonds, cherries, peaches, apricots. Usually don't care: this year I care. Have only netted a couple of fig trees and will be most upset if the rats decide to try them. We are fruit fly free but it is all around so a matter of time, have to start being proactive about it all. Sheep have enjoyed the "cockatoo attack" bitten windfalls.

This a/noon I drove 40k to buy figs because our trees are way not ripe yet. And you are feeding them to pig!!: nothing against Trouble, but please explain. (Home-grown figs?? can't wait for mine to ripen this year, looking good). Love Don, he gets better and better.

Truly so sorry Persephone, not fair and way too young, Tallie should have had years with you ahead. Rest in peace little cat. knowing you were loved.

Same Teebs - except not for owner of aggressive off-lead dog in store.

Hadn't much thought about it, Rheneas gets the odd frozen meal on super-hot days, not always though. But without going into the "did dogs descend from wolves" science, before people/dog relationship evolved, wolves in northern Europe, Alaska etc would have spent six months in winter snow per year, and need to eat left-overs and whatever they could scavenge when game was scarce and harder to catch. So maybe eating frozen meals is natural to a dog's digestive system - or not??

Maybe it's a flickr thing - I tried copy and paste url but it only put me onto flickr front page, not your image.

Such good new LmO - gives us all a little boost on a difficult day for many.

Yes! And so are you LmO. We're all following her improvement with crossed fingers and lots of hope.

@grizabella - same here. (Smugmug does this to me sometimes, have to to back to the link to work out how to embed with or without thumbnail or text only, or to move image from private galleries or whatever).

So sorry @SarahsMum, Sari was one of the special DoL dogs, we share your grief and pain of loss.

My pens are secure but the catch for me is when a group are out for a day's green-pick there's often one or more decides to sleep up on the shed roof or in a tree - they are difficult to field for 'closing time' at times, depends on breed and numbers etc. - and an easy pick for foxes. The monster wolf does crack me up a bit: so many people closer to town being dobbed to Council for roosters crowing - wonder how the crazed wolf would go down with anti-livestock neighbours. Wouldn't work for long with animals really I don't think, short term benefit certainly not proportionate to what the cost

Tks Boronia. It would likely be more effective than our movement-sensor fox lights near the chook pens. Foxes just say oh thank you for leaving a light on for us. (Why else would I be up at 2.00 am, rhetoric). But would probably cost a tad more, and might traumatise the neighbour's children. Probably doesn't cheer up Japanese kiddies either, but I guess better than a bear in the garden.

Fooled you!!

We've kind of lost the huge Akubra production that once was. How did they harvest fur from rabbits for the hat-felt industry? Must have been mechanised for the millions used. If there was a good viable value-added industry besides low-value pet food for rabbits it might reduce their numbers here in the same way as NZ/possums.

So sorry tdierikx, if only love and the best care were enough to keep them going.