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Post by paul on Sept 28, 2022 6:46:05 GMT 9.5
Might be nice to have such a thread. Here is a first installment
Tasmanian farmhand Michael Edgerton was browsing online when a post caught his eye — a property had been sold a ways away; could anyone help with relocating some animals?
Edgerton jumped on the road and travelled 40 kilometres to Glendevie, where he greeted the new property owner and helped a couple of goats find their forever homes.
Job done, Edgerton figured, dusting his hands off. But the owner mentioned there was one other animal, a horse, way out the back, as ABC tells it. The Clydesdale, Edgerton saw, was across a creek and on a steep part of a hill, and when he approached she was a sorry sight: Hazel’s ribs were showing and she was lice-infested. Edgerton gave Hazel a gentle pat and quietly vowed he’d save her.
Edgerton checked with the RSPCA and got permission to move Hazel. He figured she could live on a farm property he worked on, quite close to Huonville. But when the day came to help Hazel into the float, she was too frightened.
He tried another time with the help of two local cops, but Hazel just couldn’t bring herself to walk in. Edgerton returned each day for a week, feeding her and thinking hard about what to do.
One night, it came to him. He loaded a pack with water and food for himself and Hazel. “And we walked,” he says. They set off at 5:30pm, walking down the highway and onwards towards the farm (some 40km away) in the still night. They had lots of stops so Hazel could catch her breath and eat a little. Edgerton says he was touched by locals pulling over and asking if they were alright.
It did look a bit weird, he admitted — a man and a horse walking at night. They ate breakfast in Franklin as the sun rose, and at 8am they walked into the farm, some 14 hours after they had begun their journey. Now Hazel is at a healthy weight again and even got a complimentary nail (hoof) treatment from a local.
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Post by paul on Dec 8, 2022 8:09:54 GMT 9.5
This reclining Christmas tree is an annual feature in Lismore. It started by accident and is now popular
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Post by paul on Dec 8, 2022 9:25:15 GMT 9.5
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Post by sammy on Dec 8, 2022 12:09:09 GMT 9.5
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Post by paul on Dec 31, 2022 11:54:28 GMT 9.5
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Post by fjrogers on Jan 1, 2023 13:23:22 GMT 9.5
This is rather cute, I must admit. I love furry animals.
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Post by paul on Jan 4, 2023 11:56:44 GMT 9.5
Not sure exactly where to put this
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Post by paul on Jan 16, 2023 6:20:59 GMT 9.5
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Post by sammy on Jan 27, 2023 23:56:46 GMT 9.5
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Post by paul on Jan 28, 2023 6:19:21 GMT 9.5
It is good to see lack of judgement of people in jail
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Post by stewartedwards on Jan 29, 2023 4:38:00 GMT 9.5
It is good to see lack of judgement of people in jail Indeed. This is a difficult topic for me (thinking about jail) due to possible past life recollections, especially of the Soviet system of Moscow prison treatment followed by Siberian gulags. But that aside there are: 1. Plenty of people in jail globally for fairly minor western viewed errors (but major to those nations). 2. Some people end up in jail after doing good. Look at the Brit who stopped wanacry? Global computer virus that was a serious threat. Toddled off to the US, after saving the world from it (all by putting a website up…fascinating story). Had a great time in Vegas, and just before he boarded the plane home (at least they let him enjoy his holiday), arrested, imprisoned for some past US offence he had never been charged for (iirc) (and it’s supposedly hard to get into the U.S., I guess unless they want to arrest you, unless coincidence was at play). Reportedly they released him after a while to work for them in California. (It’s from one of the books I read, reviewed on Amazon U.K., I forget which one offhand). 3. Some people in prison really want to make themselves better people, even if they will never leave prison. I know of one. (That might send the spooks trying to fathom out who, but given my limited lifestyle it’s not that hard a puzzle).
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Post by paul on Feb 8, 2023 6:38:24 GMT 9.5
A nice video of various types of animals getting on well with humans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLtTsPn18U&t=242sNotice how many animals like to rub heads with their human. This suggests some mental/spiritual connection
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Post by tundrawolf on Feb 10, 2023 8:57:49 GMT 9.5
A nice video of various types of animals getting on well with humans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLtTsPn18U&t=242sNotice how many animals like to rub heads with their human. This suggests some mental/spiritual connection
I would definitely say there is a highly spiritual connection there. When humans failed at raising me properly, it was animals in the animal kingdom who took up the slack, showed me love, and taught me things I needed to know about life, them, myself, and other humans.
I tell people this story about my husky: After owning him three months, I had a feeling of, "Look behind you." so i turned to see him, with his front paw against a glass of water, he waited until our eyes locked, then pushed the glass of water off of the shelf and onto the floor. (it did not break, it was a low shelf, on linoleum. Just spilled water- previous to this, I had a SNEAKING FEELING the derpy things he did to PISS ME OFF were absolutely INTENTIONAL AND PREMEDITATED.)
Oftentimes when I fail him, with fits of anger, (MUCH more common before I decided to start controlling my alcohol intake. I was in agony over tooth pain recently- sober, and I failed him. He has forgiven me. But I had to be genuine in my asking him for forgiveness, admit what I did to him from his perspective [talk about painful. Imagine people who do-harm to others, being forced to endure said violence, from their victims perspective...) he will not "accept" my apology, until I truly, truly, truly, lock eyes with him, and, "See it from his point of view."
My girlfriend tells me I am essential for her learning about canines, their behaviors, and etc.
If I also, do not approach him from a state of universal truth, and from my own (often trauma based) childish mannerisms that only self-serve to keep me in a fantastical (and not reality based) mindset, he will also yawn at me.
It is his way of saying, "Dad (or however he views me.) you are maintaining the false persona that is hindering your spiritual, mental, and emotional growth."
But when I am so comfortable in that malaise, I hate to see him yawn, because i think to myself, what the FUCK did I do now? Can I do anything right?!
But, then, I humble myself (painful) and take a painfully honest self inventory within myself, and if I have the strength, I let my dog speak to me in the spirit realm, and he tries to help shift my perspective.
Between this, humping my leg, and magically turning any food i leave in my van into dog poop, he is, to me, also a divine being.
Further: At the dog park, various dogs will come to me, and some, woefully lack in the intellect department, and others- go out of their way to show me how smart and connected with the spirit realm they are. If I do not acknowledge the higher-realm dogs at the park, they will kick dirty at my feet and walk away like I am nothing at all. I am discovering this "hurts", but it is also good to connect with them on the spiritual level that benefits us both.
It is interesting to me how many humans simply do not see any of it.
It is only up to the human who "owns" the animal- the canine is a blank slate, able to adapt to virtually any condition with larger organisms imaginable.
Esoteric/spiritual/animal people hybrid (be warned, "furry" content) thing I found out recently:
As I understand, nothing can be imagined that does not already exist, and the furry art I have witnessed...
I asked the animal-people community, why there are so few, human/animal-person (Anthropomorphic animal people, shortened to, "anthro") relationships happening, but interspecies, interracial unions are common (Much more so than human/anthro pairings or interactions...)
As, humans have their own city with the anthros, and I got a reply, but this is very sensitive information, much like, racist jokes would be received by a more benevolent race of aliens... It was told to me, that the sentiment among anthros- outside the purists, much like the nazis of today in ideals, sometimes going to dangerous fanatacism- is that many anthros view humans as "more pure" and themselves, like a, "Half breed". Much like tribal communities hundreds of years ago, even thousands- half breeds were considered to be worthy of neither side's inheritence (Commonly. This is no longer true in most civilized countries)
I believe this was also put into their DNA, to have an inferiority complex, and to view us as "superior" to them, even though the opposite is obviously true. (Claws and teeth for defense, superior muscle structure/strength, faster speeds, better suited to harsher environments, the list goes on...)
To further this societal inequity within the Edenic (or wherever this plane I can see with my mind is) the humans also seem to be more than a little judgmental of the anthros. "Wolfen smell like piss." "The mole people language hurts my ears." "The cow people will step on you because they are clumsy."
This is a wide-felt stigma, I am being shown, (perhaps Eden is collectively ashamed over this. But, they have unfoldment, just as we do.) and humans are, "elephant in the room" with it, in general.
Not to mention some of the animal people are literal monsters... That we have been trained from birth to fear. Humans innately lack bodies designed for survival- we need clothing, a source of water, a source of easy food. While I like to think in a fight for my life, I could tear someone's throat out with my bare hands- even a smaller, motivated, doggen person, could easily do this with just slight jaw pressure and a hard enough jerk of her neck.
I am told their unfoldment is parallel to ours, and that they (the animal people) routinely visit us, here, as guides, helps, lovers, spouses etc, and also as murderers, too, sometimes...
That said, I have never met a dog-owner who denied their ability to "see into the spirit realm".
Several people have postulated, that our dogs are, actually, smarter than "we", the collective human race, presently, are.
Edit: I have to say this.
I can have deeper conversations with my husky, than I do with humans, verbally. I am discovering his intellect, is nearly, "Planetary". However, it takes a massive amount of my "spiritual energy" to connect with him on this VERY deep level. In fact it is so difficult, though I wish I could fall asleep having deep conversations with him, as he's curled up next to me, comforting me: about the cosmos, about anything: I am almost never able to do it for very long, and must go weeks between trying.
I have been struggling emotionally the last few weeks, especially terribly, I know it's bad when I am actually waking up in tears, as three years ago i could not even bring myself to weep, and when he knows I am awake (Or if I move, make a sound, turn on a light, he will always check on me unless he is in a deep sleep. I mean ANY time. 3 AM, he will check on me.)
All I can manage to croak out, when he comes to nuzzle me on my pillow, is, "I'm struggling, buddy." and he will say, almost every time, "I know. I'm here for you- now pull your HEAD out of your ASS and BE HAPPY."
Then I will tell him to go fuck himself, and he will say, "Fine." and leave, and take what little joy he was lending me- right with him.
I will tell you, huskies are a different kind of animal.
Previously, my Hannah Banana, my German Shepherd who wandered onto my land I was staying on, would say, "All dad needs is to get piss drunk, have pizza- and he's good."
My husky: "Naw, bitch. We're going for a walk so you aren't in your head all day."
I tell people, he is one of the best things to ever happen to me. And I mean it.
He was also free.
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Post by paul on Feb 10, 2023 9:42:13 GMT 9.5
There is an early book: Kinship with All Life. It starts with the author having to look after a movie star dog including reading to the dog each day, but only good literature. Eventually the human discovers the dog is telepathic. "For the first time I understood how dumb a human can be in the presence of an intelligent animal" So the human's new skills are applied to many species Download here epdf.tips/queue/kinship-with-all-life.html
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Post by tundrawolf on Feb 10, 2023 14:17:47 GMT 9.5
There is an early book: Kinship with All Life. It starts with the author having to look after a movie star dog including reading to the dog each day, but only good literature. Eventually the human discovers the dog is telepathic. "For the first time I understood how dumb a human can be in the presence of an intelligent animal" So the human's new skills are applied to many species Download here epdf.tips/queue/kinship-with-all-life.html
I am reading it. I am trying to read multiple sources at once.
It is exhausting
I am reminded of a male German Shepherd (Alsatian dog) who came to the shelter I once worked at, decades ago, after the wolves.
He was a, "red tag" dog, but I did nto follow protocol, as I was new, and I brushed passed his, "red tag" status (Do not take out, do not attempt to leas, do not interact with them, except through the bars.)
Except I pissed all that to the wind because I forgot to check his status: I opened his kennel door, reached in, collared him, and took him outside. He obeyed distinctly, reading my every cue.
But there was something about him, I knew, he was not, "normal"...
I returned him to his pen, and saw the red tag, but realized it was a mistake, as this pooch was perfectly kind and gentle.
Next came the next time to walk the dogs, and I went to him as I normally did- no fear, no caution. I walked him with ease.
But, I began to read the red tag.
eventually, it said he was going to be put-down (killed) because of the red tag.
Nonsense, I thought.
He is perfectly civil.
But, it began to grow near his "day"
And, I began to beg and plead for his red-tag removal. His date was days away now, but I began to feverishly balance my budget, and be able to eat- and also- to preserve his life.
Eventually, I realized, I did not have the money to keep him alive.
I broke into the chamber where they executed him, and held his paw, and talked, tearfully to him, as he wept- his final moments, viewed only by me.
Maybe if I had sold my possessions, and balanced my budget better, I would have been able to save him.
I only blamed myself.
It only fueled my misanthropy from then on.
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Post by paul on Mar 7, 2023 10:18:20 GMT 9.5
Canine kindness:
Sunday, February 2, 1908...
It was an exposé on a Parisian dog that was widely celebrated for a heroic rescue of a young child playing near the Seine. The kid had fallen into the river and was in “imminent danger of being drowned”, the report read. Hearing the panicked cries, the “splendid Newfoundland” valiantly leapt over a hedge and plunged into the cold water to pull the “little victim” from danger.
The father, beside himself with appreciation, presented the pooch with a big juicy beef steak.
“Up until this point there was nothing extraordinary,” the Times writes, “but rescues became more and more frequent. Hardly a day passed but that some unfortunate infant was brought safely to the bank by the dog after an involuntary bath.”
So a couple of people kept watch, and the truth came out. Whenever the dog saw a kid playing, “he promptly knocked it into the water, and then none the less promptly jumped in to the rescue”. The reason? He wanted more beef steak
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Post by paul on Apr 10, 2023 10:18:33 GMT 9.5
Global rewilding Standing under the sweeping curves of Melbourne’s Forward Surge sculpture, Jon Hazelwood points a tablet at the ground and a wild garden springs to life underfoot.
Barren grass is replaced by layers of plants and colourful flowers on the screen—a visualisation of what will be a mammoth urban garden, home to everything from the blue banded bee to the eastern spinebill.
The garden will cover 18,000 square metres at the Melbourne Arts Precinct, forming a connective tissue between the precinct’s buildings ...
Each square metre will foster at least 20 species of plant in an ambitious attempt to “rewild” Melbourne, an example of the global push to bring nature back to cities. 12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.theepochtimes.com/melbourne-leads-the-way-in-global-rewilding-push_5182467.html
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Post by paul on May 14, 2023 12:20:42 GMT 9.5
Dixon has worked hard to shift the mentality of the school, which was once known for schoolyard violence and low attendance, focusing on rewarding positive behaviour and encouraging the boys to enjoy school and find something to be passionate about.
The school’s year 12 robotics team, which won the First Lego League national robotics competition in December, will be heading to the United States to represent Australia in the First Lego League Razorback Open Invitational.
“We used to lose all of our good students, and now we’re keeping them all,” he says. “We have massive numbers coming in next year, after a record year 7 this year, with 165 boys coming in.
“The changes we’ve made have made it a safe space, first and foremost, and we’ve made it an exciting space for the boys, so that they can love coming to school.”
And his efforts have been rewarded, with the school improving its Naplan and HSC results, with Dixon also citing improvements in attendance and behaviour.www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/14/robots-a-barbershop-and-bagpipes-a-sydney-school-reinvents-its-tough-past-and-what-it-means-to-love-learning
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Post by paul on May 23, 2023 18:10:20 GMT 9.5
Falcon protects its nest from a pelican
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Post by paul on May 23, 2023 20:24:44 GMT 9.5
A nearby large river is to be sung to by a choir in a public event.
The human race is moving faster than I thought
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