Showing posts with label WILDLIFE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WILDLIFE. Show all posts

28 March, 2024

Queensland premier backs Molly the magpie's reunion with pal

 https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-premier-vows-to-work-with-instagram-star-molly-the-magpies-parents-after-outcry-over-seizure/d3e4c331-a30a-4f19-844f-af54cec6db7d


Poor Molly, being separated from her adopted family and doggy sister Peggy. I do hope this has a happy ever after ending. It’s not unusual for birds or wild animals to invite themselves into our lives and homes. Even if they just turn up in the morning and spend the whole day with us. Some decide to stay and charm their way into our homes. 

Towards the end of my cat Tolstoy’s life he had a magpie friend. Tolly was an indoor cat most of his life, and was an amputee, having lost a hind leg to bone cancer at 10 years old. He was in the final stages of cancer when an elderly magpie started coming to our back door every day. We were letting Tolly outside for a little while to have peace and quiet from the rest of the fur babies. He would just sit on the veranda and eat his food while just shooting the breeze. This magpie just came up to him and sat with him every day until he died. We believe that both Tolstoy and the magpie were communicating and each other and were both at the end of their lives. 

This went on for a couple of weeks, but the morning after Tolly had died Mr magpie was tapping on our door to ask where was  Tolly. It was so sad trying to tell him Tolstoy had died. The bird seemed to understand though, but just after this two younger magpies came along and chased the old magpie and attacked him. He flew over the fence with them and I never saw him again, though I could hear them fighting and it was so upsetting for me that poor Mr magpie had such a terrible ending.  

I really hope that this little Molly magpie gets to return to her adopted family and her doggie sister Peggy.


08 January, 2024

Wildlife carers overwhelmed as grey-headed flying foxes experience mass starvation down Australia's east coast

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-07/grey-headed-flying-foxes-mass-starvation-wildlife-carer-shortage/103284832

This is heartbreaking, lovely flying teddy bears ❤️🥰🥰 After the terrible 2019 bushfires and flooding, tragedy and death just never seem to stop. A shortage of vets and not enough helpers makes things extremely difficult not to mention stressful. 

I can barely bring myself to read these news articles of suffering animals. It’s bad enough when it’s human suffering but poor helpless animals takes it to a higher level. 


                                                        Adorable flying teddy ❤️

18 August, 2023

Gold Coast driver's shock as snake appears while on highway

 https://www.9news.com.au/national/green-tree-snake-on-car-windscreen-gold-coast/a218648f-053c-4b9f-a75f-03c4d3e46c51

That’s a code brown folks 🤣🤣🤣🐍🐍🐍 No one wants to have an experience like this on the road but hey, weird stuff happens in Australia and at least the snake was on the outside of his car. He really should have phoned an  animal welfare agency to come to rescue the snake not just leave it in the car engine. I wonder if he was game to check the engine after work  😳 Spiders are another visitor and hitchhiker that we get in our cars over here, I have had spiders in my car but I  just belt them , lol.

 Snakes often get into a car in rural areas or out bush though. I recall a  teacher that I had when I first came to Australia in the early 1970’s,  telling the class about when he was driving way out bush and a snake managed to get into his car via the front wheel on the drivers side. This is not a regular occurrence but it does happen occasionally and just part of life in Australia. 

I will just leave these snake pics for you to shudder at now 🤣🤣🤣🐍🐍




30 November, 2022

Cockatoo caught on video dropping pot plants from Melbourne apartment, council warns residents

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-30/cockatoo-video-dropping-pot-plants-melbourne/101710478

Cockatoos are natures assholes 🤣🤣 they destroy things because they can. They pull big branches off of my box elder in the backyard and chase other birds away from food and make a deafening noise squawking  every afternoon, especially in summer. They are well known for taking the rubber seals out of street lights and opening garbage bing and strewing the garbage all over the street. 

They are iconic and very intelligent birds they even teach other cockatoos to talk and they are good escape artists from cages. I used to watch my old neighbours cockatoos escape from their Avery as soon as my neighbours left for work each morning right on cue, lol. But they would be back every afternoon for food.

 


17 August, 2022

Norway's Prime Minister says killing of celebrity walrus Freya was 'the right decision''

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-16/norway-was-right-to-put-down-freya-the-walrus-says-pm/101336564

Oh great, find any excuse to euthanasia the poor walrus. There is no need for this wilful destruction of an animal, suitable alternatives can always be found. Does this mean that any animal that is deemed a “safety problem or risk” will be killed? 

I though Norway was progressive and looked after wildlife. Apparently not when it comes to too much power in the hands of barbaric knuckle draggers in positions of power. What about the rest of the walrus? This is their environment being encroached upon by humans. There are many animals going extinct because of human interference and hunting. Humans are the cause of nature being imbalanced, whatever happened to peaceful coexistence? It makes me ashamed to be a human being, seeing the rich and powerful  destroying the world. All animals have rights, they are sentient souls and they have feelings. 

Normal people love animals and love to peacefully coexist with them. Yes we should be careful when interacting with them,for both our well-being, but we need to let them have the right to their natural environment without humans demanding to invade their habitats just for fun. 



22 July, 2022

Russian polar bear rescued after getting condensed milk can stuck in its mouth

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-22/polar-bear-russia-can-stuck-in-mouth-rescue-/101259834 

Caused by a thoughtless and careless human. Thank heavens for good humans that are able to come to the rescue of the poor bear. The countryside belongs to the animals and must be protected from humans that don’t respect nature or life. I am just glad that someone actually noticed this vulnerable young bear. 




Queensland premier backs Molly the magpie's reunion with pal

  https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-premier-vows-to-work-with-instagram-star-molly-the-magpies-parents-after-outcry-over-seizure/...