The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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And I've another stray...
Found on the road by a passing motorist and I was the closest house. 2nd one in 3 weeks.
Very thin and young.

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It's in the cage because it is not house trained as I have found out. Curtains now need to be washed and the floor already has been.
Still working on locating the owner.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
And I've another stray...
Found on the road by a passing motorist and I was the closest house. 2nd one in 3 weeks.
Very thin and young.

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It's in the cage because it is not house trained as I have found out. Curtains now need to be washed and the floor already has been.
Still working on locating the owner.
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Do you think its been dumped by someone who couldn't cope? Not sure if microchipping is common in Australia but obviously that is the best way to locate its owner (as I'm sure you know). It looks like a cross breed. Given that you live so far from other folk it would seem strange for such a young pup to have arrived near where you live.
 
Morning Glory said:
Do you think its been dumped by someone who couldn't cope? Not sure if microchipping is common in Australia but obviously that is the best way to locate its owner (as I'm sure you know). It looks like a cross breed. Given that you live so far from other folk it would seem strange for such a young pup to have arrived near where you live.
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It was an escapee. The thing to remember is that me being the closest house to where it was found also means that it could have been driven a couple of kilometres before they came across my home as well.

It turned out to be the dog of a son of 3 neighbours up from me (so several kilometres away). The son and wife are away for a week long funeral in Sydney (she's Malaysian and funerals are week long celebrations). The father came to collect it on his way home from Canberra where he was yesterday.

Not a dump, but also despite mandatory laws that all cats and dogs must be chipped at 5 months old, it isn't which is apparently wore common with 'farm' dogs. It isn't a working dog though unlike the last girl who was both chipped and a working dog. Apparently it lives outside in a penned run most of its life hence the lack of house training and it's fear of being in a cage. I ended up with it in a very large dog cage we normally use for sick chooks or raising chicks outside in. It wasn't happy in it at all and just wanted company and contact all the time, but with it jumping on furniture and shitting on the floor, urinating on a curtain, that wasn't happening.

Where we are despite being farmland and rural isn't a dead end road like our last place. The road is too well used for my liking to be honest. Our last place was a place where we had animals dumped and we did have to deal with several in the 2 years we were there including an adorable kitten who turned up on a bitterly cold night (-8°C) at 4am in the morning and we would have adopted her if we had been able to (landlord excluded cats from pets list on tenancy so couldn't). She was adopted by a veterinary nurse.

Microchipping is great in concept but in order to get the animal checked I'd have had to drive +35km on dirt roads or 54km to where I have physio. Those are the 2 closest vets so if it had not been claimed by today, is have taken it with me to physio today to surrender to the vets 54km away!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Microchipping is great in concept but in order to get the animal checked I'd have had to drive +35km on dirt roads or 54km to where I have physio. Those are the 2 closest vets so if it had not been claimed by today, is have taken it with me to physio today to surrender to the vets 54km away!
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Psycho-poodle has a collar with a tag with my phone number on it. He is also chipped. The chip is a backup. The tag is what people use on the rare occasion I accidentally leave the gate open, and decides to check out the neighbors. He never goes far.

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caseydog said:
Psycho-poodle has a collar with a tag with my phone number on it. He is also chipped. The chip is a backup. The tag is what people use on the rare occasion I accidentally leave the gate open, and decides to check out the neighbors. He never goes far.

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The last dog had the mobile number and the dogs name woven into the collar which made life so much easier because I knew the name of the dog and had a number to ring. This one didn't. No idea on what he was called and if he is chipped (despite it being the law! )
 
Warm cloudy and very windy today. It got up to 82F/28C today. Storms predicted to roll thought overnight. Temperatures in the 70s the rest of the week, so pretty nice.

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There was a dog wandering around our neighborhood with the same type of collar, with his name embordered on it, but I couldn't get him close enough to me to see it... "Ice Cream? would you like some ice cream?" YUP! Major head tilt, I repeated it and he came right over to me :laugh:
 
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kaneohegirlinaz said:
There was a dog wandering around our neighborhood with the same type of collar, with his name embordered in it, but I could get him close enough to me to see it... "Ice Cream? would you like some ice cream?" YUP! Major head tilt, I repeated it and he came right over to me :laugh:
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Actually, Teddy (AKA: Psycho-poodle) gets loose dogs (with collars) to come into the back yard, and I close the gate. Then I can call the owner, and they usually come to pick up their dog in a matter of minutes.

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Just cost $185 to put 81 litres into my 4×4. That's not even a full tank. A full tank is $205 now!

No point in trying to find a cheaper petrol station because I'd waste 110km of fuel in doing so (roughly 20L), so anything that's not cheaper by 20c a liter isn't worth actually worrying about unless I actually need to fill up in a place with more than 1 petrol station... and round here you're lucky to find 1 fuel station.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Just cost $185 to put 81 litres into my 4×4. That's not even a full tank. A full tank is $205 now!

No point in trying to find a cheaper petrol station because I'd waste 110km of fuel in doing so (roughly 20L), so anything that's not cheaper by 20c a liter isn't worth actually worrying about unless I actually need to fill up in a place with more than 1 petrol station... and round here you're lucky to find 1 fuel station.
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Gasoline/petrol is not killing me here in North Texas. It is more than I'm used to, but not as bad as a lot of places in the US. Certainly not what it is in Europe or other countries. I paid $4.40 per gallon a couple days ago for Premium grade. At that price, I could fill my Audi gas tank from empty for $87.00. Regular grade was $3.73 per gallon.

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caseydog said:
Gasoline/petrol is not killing me here in North Texas. It is more than I'm used to, but not as bad as a lot of places in the US. Certainly not what it is in Europe or other countries. I paid $4.40 per gallon a couple days ago for Premium grade. At that price, I could fill my Audi gas tank from empty for $87.00. Regular grade was $3.73 per gallon.

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As an idea on cost, it is $100 more a fill-up (rather than tankful) than 18 months to 2 years ago, so more than double the cost.
 
Gas here is 2.69 liter or $150 a tank.
My hilux when I first started buying them was $18 for 60 liter tank. That was about 20 plus years ago. Now it would cost $96 diesel .
I get .15 c a litre off as I have my " gold card" now. A bonus for reaching 65. Plus free bus travel etc.

Russ
 
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