CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, clochette said:

Probably cause you kept him busy with other things  

Hi, Clo.   I just bought Cookie a new collar... It's red.  

[Albert1434]

Is that collar by Christian Dior ?

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Albert1434 said:

Is that collar by Christian Dior ?

Nope... Zeus... by Hagen.  

[Headstall]

6 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Nope... Zeus... by Hagen.  

This one...

 

https://ca-en.hagen.com/Dog/Walking-Accessories/Collars/99521

[Albert1434]

Is red her color one wonders 

[clochette]

20 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

I think your driving that Frog nuts 

Foreplays

[Page Scrawler]

3 minutes ago, clochette said:

Foreplays

Clo, I think you should get a refund from @Drew Espinosa. That halo he sold you is looking so tarnished, it's practically blue!  

[clochette]

Just now, Page Scrawler said:

Clo, I think you should get a refund from @Drew Espinosa. That halo he sold you is looking so tarnished, it's practically blue!  

Blue like my eyes *bats eyelashes* 

[Headstall]

13 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Is red her color one wonders 

Yes... one wonders...   It was red, green, black, grey, or blue.  

[Headstall]

2 minutes ago, clochette said:

Blue like my eyes *bats eyelashes* 

It matches your wings.  

[Timothy M.]

5 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

I will not post the picture that went with this stores jezzzz

 

Australia horse deaths: Wild animals perish at dried-up waterhole

 

I saw the picture, not nice.   On the other hand, horses are not native to Australia, same as pigs, toads and loads of other introduced and invasive animals. If their numbers get decimated due to heat and drought, it might be good for native species who are more adapted to extremes ?

[Page Scrawler]

8 minutes ago, Timothy M. said:

If their numbers get decimated due to heat and drought, it might be good for native species who are more adapted to extremes ?

Rabbits are another one that Australia can do without. The white colonists brought them over as a food source, and inevitability, they escaped from their enclosures and did what comes naturally. Now they're almost as serious of a problem as the zebra mussels in the Great Lakes.

[Headstall]

5 minutes ago, Timothy M. said:

 

I saw the picture, not nice.   On the other hand, horses are not native to Australia, same as pigs, toads and loads of other introduced and invasive animals. If their numbers get decimated due to heat and drought, it might be good for native species who are more adapted to extremes ?

I see your [point, Tim. I would just add horses and man have been symbiotic for over 15,000 years, so they were introduced for a reason, but wild horses have been around since the beginning. They are extremely adaptable, and thrive in deserts and the far north. Water, though, is essential. Horses arrived in Australia the same time the first prisoners who settled there did, so I would be in favor of helping the ones that have become wild, survive. Of course, I'm biased.  

[Timothy M.]

 how could I forget rabbits. They're a pest here too, but not as bad as in Australia.

 

Yeah, I know what you mean, Gary. Horses are introduced in North America too, but no one considers them a pest. And they're not as bad as the really invasive species.

Edited January 24, 2019 by Timothy M.

[Headstall]

Just because...

 

[Page Scrawler]

6 minutes ago, Timothy M. said:

And they're not as bad as the really invasive species.

Many towns along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers have competitions to catch Asian carp. If you're gonna get rid of an invasive species, you might as well have some fun with it.

[Kitt]

7 minutes ago, Timothy M. said:

 how could I forget rabbits. They're a pest here too, but not as bad as in Australia.

 

Yeah, I know what you mean, Gary. Horses are introduced in North America too, but no one considers them a pest. And they're not as bad as the really invasive species.

Actually the cattlemen out west do consider them a pest as they take up valuble grazing land.  Now that fewer horses are needed for herding and there are regulations about catching wild ones, things tend to get out of control.

[Albert1434]

We have wild horses here in Nevada. My point with that story was that there isn't any water for any thing. That's from global warming. And cattlemen are driven by pure greed.

Cattle are bad  period  

[Albert1434]

Prairie hen is going extinct due to cattle 

 

Edited January 24, 2019 by Albert1434

[bignick]

20 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Just because...

I just want to make it clear: that is not plaid.  And I don't need my eyes fixed. 

[clochette]

7 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Prairie hen is going extinct due to cattle 

It looks like it swallowed an orange

[bignick]

I don't think we have to deal with many pests, other than the common rats, which are pests everywhere. But even they have to face their own predators, so Nature finds its balance one way or another. Stray cats and dogs are more of an issue than pests. It saddens and embarrasses the heck out of me to say local authorities seem oblivious to the situation. Or they don't care. 

[bignick]

12 minutes ago, clochette said:

It looks like it swallowed an orange

It does!  

[Albert1434]

Its doing its mating dance 

[Kitt]

Swallowing an orange gets him a mate???