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Another amazing day in the Pantanal, including Giant otters (later) and mating Jaguars... First of the day was Valante. Hard to process but much much more to come.
About the naming: the Jaguars project biologist identified 45 jaguars in the preserve which can be distinguished by the spot pattern on the forehead and sides.
Taken on a a Photo tour with Juan Carlos Vindas www.neotropicphototours.com
Step, my family's 're-homed to us' Vizsla (Hungarian Pointer), demonstrating he's still got lots of "puppy" & ready to go.
Tons of energy and enthusiasm (typical for the breed).
Step, my 11yo Vizsla, enjoying a mid-winter weather romp during a brief warming trend.
More winter is on its way. Stay tuned...
Such a sweet girl, she just wants to be near me all the time. She is such a pleasure to have around. But she still has to chase and whack the others.
I've started trying to secure the yard today. After Mercedes cut her foot quite badly, I'm forced to act. A few weeks ago Raphael was attacked badly by another cat in my yard. I have to try and secure them. Tonight Raphael insisted on going out, he started doing circles at the door, and I know that means he's distressed and he will spray if I don't let him have his freedom. It's a constant worry, but it is a risk I have to take with him. He grew up on the streets and so he's not happy being confined.
Matilda follows me everywhere. She sleeps on my bed day and night, and she often calls and calls when I'm not in my room, for me to come to the room and be with her. If I leave the house she calls and calls. My mum pacifies her and she now settles down quickly. Her eyes often follow my every move. When I lift my keys she knows that sound, and she knows I am going out. There is resignation and she goes and puts herself to sleep somewhere. She notices everything. When my car pulls up in the driveway, and I put my keys in the front door to unlock it, she has jumped down off my bed watching to see if it's me. I suspect she fears abandonment.
Midnight is more of a back bencher. He still has his preference to be outside.
Matilda turned 11 years old on the 23rd of December 2016.
my grand daughter loves photography and took this shot.she will be getting this camera,canaon rebal xs, next year when i upgrade my equipment.
This is Rumblemumbles when she was 11yo (1997) when we toured Tasmania. She looked a bit of a tomboy then.
This is at a historical museum in Launceston, and I can't remember the name nor find it on the web so it may not be there anymore.
My computer broke, I had it fixed, and now everything is so much faster, I can pop onto flickr for a bit because everything loads up much quicker now.
She's eating a bit more and looking healthier. The cooler night temperatures have improved her appetite.
Fujica ST705 W - Jupiter-9 85mm. f/2 - Kodak TX400 + D76 1+1 8'45" - EPSON Perfection V600 - No Post Production
Filmdev Recipe #11982
He stopped eating today. I weighed him and he is 200grams lighter than about 4 days ago.
Exactly 2 weeks ago he had an antibiotic injection that lasts 2 weeks. He was eating well, and acting himself again. I got to see his poop on Sunday (2 days ago), and it was fine
I tried this afternoon to get him to eat, but he wasn't interested. So I am taking him to the vet in a few hours.
UPDATE:
The vet found his temperature at 42°C
He has been given the same antibiotic injection but also another antibiotic I have to give him by mouth, a liquid. And he has been given steroid injection to help him eat.
Don't know the cause, could be lymphoma, he's still a bit tender when they feel his tummy.
If this doesn't cure him, I will be running scans I guess, will cross that road if I have to, might not have to cross it.
Vet wanted to run an FIV and FeLV test, I allowed the test but I didn't really want to do it. His test was negative.
I'm just hoping he's having a hard time trying to beat whatever this is. He has an on and off runny nose, and so do the others. But they are fine and eating voraciously. So I'm hoping he's just finding it hard to beat this but will beat it with help.
Step, my 11yo Vizsla, crashing through a neighborhood forest at full speed during his early morning run.
An everyday event.
Autumn started on the first of March in Australia. We've had rain mostly for the last few weeks, and high humidity. Yesterday the humidity was less and today also, and it was good to snuggle up in bed. The nights are cooler at 19 degrees, such a relief. Tabitha was sneezing so I put a box under the house for her keep warm in. Hope she uses it.
Step, my 11yo Vizsla (Am Ch Paradox STEP-N-OUT, JH), assuming THE position in the hope something may bounce his way.
Common and frequent occurrence.
Step, my 11yo Vizsla (Hungarian Pointer), on Chipmunk patrol.
He's a great protector of our domain. We've yet to be attacked by an intruder.
The meowing in the background is Raphael. He often comes running if he knows I'm giving Josie attention, he doesn't want to miss out ever!
I apologise for not being on flickr much, I have a shoulder sprain and it's taking it's time to heal.
I am also finalising a book I have written, I am getting it ready for an appraisal first maybe, and then editing. I haven't made up my mind yet. I need to speak to a few more editors. I have only found one in this town, and she is a journalist, a historian, and a humanitarian. She has 30years experience in writing, and she seems perfectly suitable, but she won't edit it until she's done an appraisal on it, and then she decides whether or not she is willing to edit it. The appraisal will cost $500AU. The next closest editor is 100km away. I need to do more homework on this lady first, but from speaking with her, and seeing her public profile, she has won my confidence to pay for her appraisal. I am keen to publish it even if she rejects it, so I am not sure if I want to spend the money on an appraisal, and maybe just go straight into editing with someone else. But the appraisal may well give me guidance to change things before having it edited and published. The fact she is a historian has really impressed me.That will help me a lot. If she is happy to edit it, she gives me a package deal on editing, proofreading, illustrating and printing. If she's not happy to edit it, I need to get it edited elsewhere, but she will print it for me as a self published work if I want. She has setup her practice to support the local regional community to self publish their work. I couldn't really ask for anything more.
MATILDA UPDATE ~ mouth tumour likely cancer:
Today I took Matilda to the local vet to get some pain medication and a second opinion. At first I was taking her to be euthanised as she is in pain when she opens her mouth. Her bottom jaw "chatters", that's when it vibrates with pain, if you try to look into her mouth or when she eats. But when I got her into the carrier etc well when she's not in pain, not using her mouth, she's still quite good.
I ended up buying her 5 days of pain medication, an opiate. It is very costly, and the first dose tonight I can tell Matilda is more comfortable. She opened her mouth and yawned a few hours later. But it is difficult to open her mouth to eat. I think that action of grabbing food is painful, I sit her up and hand feed it, she grabs it off my fingers. But she has difficult grabbing anything lower.
The prednisone has shrunk the tumour but her pain is high so that's why I had to do something. Today was the first day she did not purr for me, and she was irritated by touch.
When the vet examined the tumour which is under Matilda's tongue, the tongue starts to go blue. The tumour is cutting off the blood supply at that position to examine inside her mouth. The same thing happened last visit to her usual vet.
I sincerely thank everyone for your kind words and prayers. It is a huge comfort and I know things won't be the same without her when I have to make the decision to euthanise her. I know a lot of my flickr friends have encouraged me not to let her suffer, and I'm not. Her jaw started "chattering" yesterday and today was the first day she stopped purring and completely stopped meowing to me as she often does to communicate.
Tonight she looks brighter and has more energy.
I would have liked to have had an xray to rule out a possible foreign object causing the pain. (this is my idea, not the vets). Maybe I'm clutching at straws. I'm not in a position to do that.
Matilda is 11yo.
Charlie, as he gets older, he looks more and more like a tiger in the wild. His features seem to get more pronounced and amazing. He's 11yo.
She pulled the covers back all by herself, and put herself to bed in my bed. I had just changed the bed sheets.
Mercedes turned 11yo on the 1st of May. It's an estimate of her birth date, she is Josie's daughter.
Thank you for your comments, favs, and visit.
I am doing well, and so are all the cats.
You know that old trees just grow stronger
And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say,
"Hello in there, hello"...
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So our 11 year old chocolate Lab Fudge, had not been feeling well the past few days and he was lying out on the floor of the garage when my wife came running into our office crying...she said, "I think Fudgee is looking for you - I think he's trying to say goodbye"...well, we sat on the floor with him, stroking his fur, soothing him as he struggled and took his last gasp of air...after staying with him for about another hour, I went into the house and this song was playing on my iPod...seemed kinda surreal...He loved to go camping and get back to nature...our 6th pup we've lost during our 46+ years of marriage...it never gets any easier...
Sorry about the poor quality photo. If I get up close to him to take a sharp photo, he walks to me. So I had to do my best from a distance.
So the girls had their first day of school (ever) today, and it went just fine for them. Thank you for all your kind words!
I was happy I had my husband home with me to keep me distracted. It's going to be harder next week when he's back to work.
He and I took the car to be serviced, and we met this cutie. I felt a little sad because normally my 11yo would have been with me and would have fallen in love, so I whipped out my camera to take a photo for her.
Step, my family's 11yo Vizsla, pretending that he's hunting as he scrambles through tall grass in a meadow near my home.
Mercedes is very happy these days. She is 11.5 years old. She has started to show signs of not being so agile. She has recently survived a serious cat attack I think. I nursed her wounds on her left back leg, and she let me, it was amazing, she just let me do everything to fix her up. I had been away, so she had been sore for more than one day possibly, by the time I got to her she was in so much pain she just didn't care anymore to fight against me fixing her up. She recovered well. Prior to the attack she didn't seem to make clean jumps anymore, sometimes she doesn't make the jump, and she's not as readily strong as she used to be. But one thing is for sure, she's very playful and happy, especially at night. She talks to her toys and rubs on them and throws them around.
She can escape the yard, and I allow it because she's sensible, she doesn't go on the road, and she mentally needs to not be caged. The lady who was feeding them said the day before I returned, all the cats did not come out when she came to put the food and usually they come to her. So I suspect another cat had got into my yard and attacked Mercedes. I doubt one of the others bit her, but I don't really know what happened to cause all the cats to be too afraid to come to feed, or who attacked Mercedes.
O spite of spites,
We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites!
If we obey them not, this will ensue:
They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.
- William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors
I am grateful moments like this that remind me that children don't turn into adults overnight and that maybe we all still have some child left in us.
{Gratitude 14/30}
Pie-making never goes as easily as I feel it ought to. Despite having my dough ready a few days ago, it took me from 3 p.m. to after midnight to bake three pies. I took some time off for dinner and for a "I'm never baking pies again" meltdown, which my 11yo talked me out of.
I'm grateful to her for talking me out of that. It made me smile, because the tables were turned. It's actually really amazing that she can do that. What a wise child.
I'm also grateful I'm done and can go to bed.
In case you're wondering, this is nutmeg in the process of being grated.
I won't be uploading photos to flickr for a few days (I'm missing Fence Friday, boo-hoo!). I do hope to get some exploring time though.
Have a wonderful Thanskgiving!
{gratitude 24/30}
Zenit 11 - Helios 44M-4 (58mm. f/2) - Kodak TX 400 + D76 1+1 8'45" - Epson Perfection V600 - COntrast and Brightness adjusted in Post Production - Reading done by a Gossen Lunasix 3
Filmdev Recipe #11982
Picture taken by my 11yo daughter. The last roll our Zenit shot before a critical failure...
Zenit 11 - Helios 44M-4 (58mm. f/2) - Kodak TX 400 + D76 1+1 8'45" - Epson Perfection V600 - COntrast and Brightness adjusted in Post Production - Reading done by a Gossen Lunasix 3
Filmdev Recipe #11982
Picture taken by my 11yo daughter. The last roll our Zenit shot before a critical failure...
Tracey Clark's Picture Fall Day 28: The Great Pumpkin
Jack-o-lanterns are piling up at our house in expectation of the big day. We're expecting one more to join the crowd.
Bella is an 11yo Rottweiler/ Irish Setter mix. Thanks to the West Michigan Humane Society for pairing us with her in 2007.
This castle was built by the dwarves to protect their diamond mine on a small island. The trolls attacked and defeated the dwarves. They conquered the castle an made the dwarves toil in the mine.
That's the story my 11yo son told me in early june. Dad I want to build that castle. It's gonna be on a 96x96 studs base. So I told him: Son if it'll be that big you will have to build it in moduls so it can be transported. No problem dad just let me work.
So I let him work. For the first month there was very few progress. I thought he had lost his interest in the project. But then he began working on it again. And it went fast! He finished it in time for the Bricking Bavaria convention in early November.
As a proud dad I have to admit that my only participation was providing the bricks needed. He even payed some of them himself.
During the last two weeks the castle was presented in the shop window of a local toy store.
lensbaby composer double glass+4 magnification with heart aperture
ODC "Bottles"
When my 11yo EXTREME girly girl saw this. her mouth formed a perfect little circle as she breathed, 'ooooooooooooo!"
Zenit 11 - Helios 44M-4 (58mm. f/2) - Kodak TX 400 + D76 1+1 8'45" - Epson Perfection V600 - Contrast and Brightness adjusted in Post Production - Reading done by a Gossen Lunasix 3
Filmdev Recipe #11982
Picture taken by my 11yo daughter. The last roll our Zenit shot before a critical failure...