Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 12
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My girlfriend didn't get hers as a puppy, she had talked about wanting a dog and a dog-lover girl we knew who had heard it suddenly dropped in at her birthday and gave her this dalmatian. I think it was some months old and she didn't say where it came from and no one ever asked. So it could have been abused or treated badly before she got it, who knows. They're pretty expensive so I was wondering a bit back then why someone would give one away for free, it may have had issues or something but we didn't really think about that.
The English Budgie pair I have are slow and clumsy flying and moving about compared to the smaller and thinner Australian Budgie pair I have. While my Australian pair no doubt aren't as nimble or muscular as the wild ones they have no trouble flying the the 3'x3'x2.5'x5' cage I have for them or outside the cage when I leave the door open. They even weave flying between branches in it from time to time. Having no predator worries the tend only to fly for exercise and just for fun around sunset after they are sure they've conserved enough energy and have enough food left for the rest of the day.
Where does one get these service dogs trained that are so well behaved that'd challenge an Honor Guard for good disciplined behavior? It probably costs a fortune to train them though.
Hmmmm. Definitely not what I would have put with it.
That is unfortunately *really* common with Dalmatians. They are definitely a more high maintenance breed, and after Disney released 101 Dalmatians, people flocked to buy them thinking they'd be "easy", and they aren't, so shelters filled up with them fast. I know here in Texas there is (or was) a farm just for abandoned Dalmatians from around that era, and deaf ones. Just being given up older like that could easily have given it abandonement issues.
I did an experiment (which I think is one thread back) with kitbashing more suitable boots, and it came out looking pretty good.
It hurts my feet just to look at those shoes. I'm also not sure how she gets those pants on or off either, as there's a solid piece of material stitched across the top of the fly. Still a nice outfit though, and it's good to see the freebie Trish Hair in the promos.
That's like the yellow IRN & green IRN I have they have been given up on by multiple owners even though they were said to be both less than 3 years old when I agreed to buy them (for only $300 each it's true but I shouldn't reward the pet store I bought them from & former owners for the irresponsibility that made those birds available to me to begin with). Anyway, I spent the 1st two months I had the yellow bird up to 12 hours a day sitting on the couch next to her to work on taming her she was such a panicked basket case. That bird can and will bite and bite hard! My pinky ached for 3 days afterwards. Indian Ringneck hens tend to be totally neglected by breeders as the pet buyers don't want them, they want the males, and there are only so many IRNs these breeders can hatch before they are totally overrunning their breeding operations with excess hens that they couldn't sell. I suspect that's how these two hens became available to me (I was lied to about the green female IRN and was told it was actually a immature male because having more that one female IRN in the same area is a huge fighting risk between the hens).
The green one is a scared flake too but for some weird reason she'll step up on a perch despite being afraid of people. I've taught her to 'Come Here' (step up on the perch) and 'Go Home' (fly from the dining room to her cage in another room that she can't see). People think parrot type birds bond for life but they don't, and Indian Ringnecks in particular don't bond for life. Some parrots will under ideal conditions but such conditions are rare in nature. They do remember people and have a surprisingly good memory, better for bad things for danger avoidance than for good things. They learn surprising fast if actually motivated by their own preferences.
The budgies, $10 each, on the other hand, although bonded and adult and untame when I got them, only required patience, some spray millet temptation, and slow moving hands and they started becoming tame right away. Despite their smaller size they are every bit as smart as the Indian Ringnecks.
I used to get budgies, but after my last one passed (he was 18ish), I stopped. Too much other stuff going on and I was afraid my big dogs might accidentlly eat one XD I'm glad your birds have a more caring home now.
If you have Charlene's Closet or OOT's Medieval Headpieces (G8F) you may want to PM me.
I just got back from the birdstore, seeing Takutea. They didn't clip his wings enough and he is a STRONG flier- he went up and into a fan- HE IS ALRIGHT. It just barely clipped him. The birdstore gal was in tears (she was holding him as I took photos) and I assured her it wasn't her fault. They really trimmed them back! The next time I hold him will be on a blanket on the floor, like I did with Motuihe and Tokelau, so when they try to fly they flutter down softly onto the blanket. Since Takutea thinks he can fly, he'll really launch off next time. Poor thing will be confused, but it's better than getting killed with a fan. I had just said the last week that there shouldn't be ANY FANS in a birdstore.
Yikes!
I am glad your parrot wasn't hurt!
I love watching my budgies fly. There are so coordinated, in cage or out of cage. They are their own little flock of 4 buddy birds.
And the green IRN now has shed her clipped wings and grown her flight feathers back in. She can fly and fly good. She is very coordinated; the most coordinated 'medium sized parrot' I've ever seen fly indoors. She purposely and carefully stays at a height below the ceiling fan, takes multiple turns on a dime into other rooms and hallways, and stops and lands on a dime on the windows she likes to look out of.
Meanwhile, my yellow IRN is still with broken flight feathers that haven't been shed yet and all of them on one wing. It's been about 3 months since she's panicked bad enough to crash into a wall or cage bars hard enough to re-bloody her broken flight feathers. She sinks like a rock when she tries to fly and lists to one side. Given her tendency to panic for no good reason it's just as well she can't fly until I get her 100% hand-tamed (Provided I can manage it; while she's come a long, long way for a wild adult but there is no guarantee she'll proceed further in the taming process. Her personality is what it is.).
Just thought I'd share a page I found on another site, this is a long, weird URL and I've not seen it before, the nhc site has so many pages! This would be a handy url to copy if you want to see the cones that aren't being shown by accuweather, weather channel, etc.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5
I have a stupid question… Up until they stopped talking about Dorian, I've heard these storms called hurricanes. Then all of a sudden, I'm seeing "cyclones" on TV and websites… What's up with that?
Cyclone is the overall term for the weather phenomenon. They're commonly called hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific. Why the switch to the general term, I don't know...
It just seems odd.
Cyclone? Oh, that's the media for you, while it may be technically correct using hurricane or typhoon lets readers know in an instant whether they need to read further news about the storm to know if one is threatened and now one doesn't know so they read more news to find out whereas they wouldn't have in the past. More ad impression. A while back they started calling everything that happened a "sea change" and every hard rain a "nor'easter".
Tropical cyclone is a more inclusive term and may include not only hurricanes but also tropical storms and even tropical depressions with a closed circulation.
I know that both typhoons and hurricanes are cyclones, and that they are called typoons over the Pacific, and hurricanes over the Atlantic. Aren't tornadoes also cyclones, that originate over land? Anyway, it just seems odd that "last week" the meteorologists talked about this or that depression and chances of it becoming a hurricane, and now their saying the same things but using cyclone instead.
That would be like saying there's a pack of canines in the hills south of town, so beware if you go hiking. I want to know if that pack of canines is a small litter of chihauhaus the owners turned out because they couldn't feed them, or a 25 strong pack of wolves!
So while cyclone is a more inclusive term, I think @nonesuch00 may have touched on the reasoning behind using it.
Yep Tornadoes are also called cyclones
I've also seen that more since the National Hurricane Center developed their new system which now includes storm surge, and labeling "potential" start-up storms. I think when they shifted their mindset, they just developed the habit of shifting to new terminology. Then GroupThink kicked in LOL.
Go back and take a peek, just added Sapphira. She's wearing the Jenna Workout top and it's a PC+ item, I was surprised frankly. The next one up is Duffy, may get to her today but when I post her I'll let you know in a separate post.
Oooh, I think this page is so neat! The current winds of the Earth.
That's fascinating!
I accidentally just did my scrollie thing on my mouse (the wheel) and you can quickly zoom in. Even neater! The Panhandle is getting the wind from the East, blowing West. I also love the green color, quite soothing. I picture wind as blue though, due to the sky.
BTW, on the spaghettimodels.com page, you can get any weather you're looking for, including the nhc.noaa.gov pages, the one that shows the cones right now are indicating that newest wave with 80% chance of forming is also going to be an East Coast/curve out thingabobbie. Gulf Coast still lookin' good.
Now that's cool
Oh my gosh- you can click on the Earth and rotate/move it up and down! (In addition to using the scroll wheel to zoom in.)
Pretty neat.
Click on the word earth to get other options, like temperature.
Hey that's fun! Thanks for the link, Novica - and spotting those other options, barbult