Have you ever wondered how do birds fall asleep if they have to remain conscious to grip onto the branch that they are resting on.
I like this image a lot. It’s simple, almost colourless and has a certain mystical feel to it.
Location: The suburbs of Melbourne
Taken using Pudding Camera app: Snap camera type with vignetting film
Browsing the archives for the Animal Kingdom category.
The annual massacre is starting soon, all because you and your family watch dolphin shows at theme parks. This is how the dolphins for the shows are obtained. As for the ones that don’t get selected…
I thought about this many, many years ago. Something doesn’t feel right about dolphin shows or any sort of animal shows. Quote Ric O’Barry “You have to see dolphins in the wild to understand why captivity doesn’t work”. Dolphins are mammals that swim the ocean, but are captured, confined within a tiny space and made to perform tricks to amuse lame people like you and your children. People who have nothing better to do on their holidays and have to resort to watching dolphins jump up from and back down into the water. Watching these shows means you are actually playing a part in the mistreatment of these animals. Not knowing how to swim, I will never be able to realize a wish to have physical contact with a dolphin but I refuse to attend a dolphin show just to be near a dolphin.
There may be accusations and controversy surrounding the parties involved. But does that matter? The fact is the dolphins’ blood is spilling. That is all that matters. That is all I care about.
It’s sad and just not right that the puppies in petshops are left in the containers after trading hours, all night long. What if a fire broke out. These are living things, not a product. How about leaving babies in boxes at childcare overnight.
12 July 2010 ~ a Golden Retriever puppy for sale
Location: Box Hill Central
A person’s true nature is judged from how he or she treats an animal.
News article and all images below from news.com.au
A puppy’s ears and tail were cut off with scissors in an act of cruelty so sickening it left welfare workers in tears.
Buckley, an eight-week-old border collie cross staffordshire bull terrier, was found abandoned in a school yard on Saturday, July 11, and taken to a veterinarian in Sydenham, in Melbourne’s northwest, the Moonee Valley Leader reports.
Lost Dogs’ Home manager Sue Conroy, who is looking after Buckley, said it was one of the worst cases of animal cruelty she had seen in 23 years. “I’ve had staff crying,” she said. “The puppy would have received no anesthetic and would have made a lot of noise. “He would have been in unspeakable agony”
Ms Conroy said staff had treated his wounds with ointments and administered pain relief and antibiotics. She said the puppy “was not ready to be adopted just yet”. His hearing will not be perfect, but he’s not deaf. But mentally, he’s is still traumatised and is hiding from people.”
There is nothing the puppy could have done to deserve this. The man who committed this doesn’t deserve a to be jailed or fined. He deserves to have his ears hacked off too, just so that he knows how it would have felt.
Buckley awaiting surgery to tidy up his damaged ears and tail
Little Buckley post surgery in a protective collar
Buckley getting some rest post surgery
Buckley was taken care of by people with a heart, at the Lost Dogs Home. Buckley is one of the 5 dogs featured in Australia Post’s Adopted and Adored special stamp issue. Please choose this series when you purchase stamps at Australia Post. Help make a difference by making a choice.
The rest doesn’t matter. I don’t know the technical side or bureaucracy of the oil spill. Don’t want to know or care about the explanations or excuses as to why there isn’t an ‘Off’ button to stop the flow. All i know is that humans have been oiling for decades and it is ridiculous that there isn’t something as simple as a stop button in case of a spill. It’s as simple as that. BP and all parties involved, thank you for this…
What is the point of apologising when the damage is already done?
31 Dec 2009
moray eel
a whale shark
spider crabs
Mesmerising jellyfishes
Nemo desu
a surprising encounter with Capybara-san, which was a bonus and the closest i’ll ever get to a capybara.
searching for food in Naniwa Food ThemePark, located in Tempozan Marketplace, next to the Aquarium.
Inari udon
yakisoba
cheeky edible goods
in a candystore
it was freezing when we exited the aquarium
an extremely cold walk to the train station
a green tea ice-cream in Yodobashi Osaka before heading back to the hotel
Today’s loot. Sweets from the candystore and a capybara magnet
Totoro products from a Ghibli shop
ear-muffs from Comme Ca
dried crabs
doing the laundry down in the basement of the hotel
Not being pro-Japan but isn’t the anti-whaling and The Cove issue a bit over. I mean, Japan isn’t the only country that is whaling and certainly not the only country killing wild animals for food. To be fair to Japan, seafood and whalemeat has probably been part of their culinary, part of their culture since centuries ago. It’s like telling the Americans that they can no longer consume their steak.
Definitely against cruelty to animals but aren’t these idiots forgetting the other whaling countries, the seals that are being bashed to their death and the extremely cruel horse racing industry?
If the horses doesn’t get back up, i think they are most likely to be put down. As for the jockeys…do i care? They deserved it.
How i wish that all the participants at horse racing events will get trampled by the horses rebelling against the race they are forced to take part in. People don’t deserve the slightest sympathy.
Stumbled onto this article from Eddie Wong’s post. If you can’t handle alcohol and want to get yourself killed, nobody is going to care. But if you can’t handle alcohol and go around setting other living things on fire, then you’re nothing but a pathetic case. And take a look at this pathetic one…
And the bunny she set on fire
what did it do to deserve this?
Images from DailyMail. The news here.
In Eddie Wong‘s words, humans are a sad, sad race. And i couldn’t agree with more. And the punishment should be an eye for an eye. Humans won’t learn by merely getting a fine or a warning or jailed. That’ll be too easy on them. They should be set on fire for a few minutes.
31 Dec 2009
On the itinerary today is Osaka Kaiyukan but before that…
Breakfast at McDonald’s
the ticket to Osakako station where the Osaka Aquarium is, within walking distance
there seems to be a ferris wheel in every city, maybe more than one.
it was a sunny day but freezing cold and extremely windy
the Aquarium
travelling up the escalator inside the Aquarium
through the tunnel
the first animal
River otters
Sea otters
they were adorable…they kept rolling and scratching themselves in the water. I think i spent at least 5 minutes just watching them…
then there are the seals…
Seals
the tentacles of a live octopus
a whale shark swims pass…
the tank containing the whale shark spans several level and is the main feature of the Aquarium
a very strange looking fish called the Sunfish
this is the closest i’ll ever get to the Emperor Penguins…
one just in front of me, behind the glass.
fugu (blowfish)
a turtle
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