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Plants: Timothy, rye and orchard grass, ragweed, lambs quarters, cocklebur, maple, tumbleweed and sycamore.
Fungi, pests and commensals: Aspergillus, Alternaria, Semphylium, Phoma, Saccharomyces, Mallassezia, housedust mites and human dander.
Food: Chicken and turkey meat, milk, oats, corn, eggs, peanut, kelp, and houseflies, (Fidget regards houseflies as a food rather than a pest.)
But not feathers, thankfully. We are doing some re-engineering to keep her away from eggs and chicken feed.
We'll start Fidget's injections as soon as they get here. She has been really miserable this summer.
Rabbit is happier and more settled now that Fidget is in the house. She doesn't break into spasms of grief when someone leaves the building. The two of them lounge around together genially.
Mouse seems content to govern the pasture alone. She and Fidget aren't fighting when she comes down to the house, though they mount each other intermittently. (Mouse is in heat and will be spayed in a couple of weeks.)
After Mouse has been down at the house for an hour or so, she sits by the gate and asks to be taken back to her pasture. I was surprised the first time that she did that, but after all, Pyrs were bred to live a life that humans would describe as "solitary". Probably Pyrs aren't "alone" if they have their flock.
Our fancy primate brains have decided that they're still going to get Mouse a pup after she has recovered from being spayed. But that may just be a projection of hominid desires onto a canid species.
Mouse may very well be saying * PLEASE * DON'T * GET * ME * A * PUPPY *.
But of course, we know what's best for her. :)
We have so much control over dogs' lives that I hope we do know what's best for them. The most common understanding of human-dog relationships can be summarized as follows: "People think dogs are people, and dogs think people are dogs." It's an imperfect theory, but it explains a lot, and one of the reasons that we bother with theories is that they have explanatory power.
Coming at the problem from another direction, Konrad Lorenz -- a brilliant ethologist, and perhaps not incidentally, a bit of a Nazi in his younger days -- convinced many of us to think of dogs as pack-oriented wolflets who inhabit a genetically determined landscape of dominance and submission. Genetic determinism (sociobiology) is a first-rate tool for studying ants, but it breaks down in ludicrous ways when applied to organisms that are as complex and individuated as dogs.
Besides, there is little resemblance between wolf and dog packs. Wolf packs are families with a straightforward breeding structure. Most or all of a pack's members are relatively recent descendants of a single breeding pair.
On the other hand, dog packs, whether made up of strays or ferals, are pick-up gangs of relatively distantly related individuals. Each pack has a more or less random genetic structure, except of course that they're all dogs. It's not too surprising that wolf-pack behavior is amenable to study in terms of social genetics, but maybe it's a mistake to apply wolfish conclusions to packs that lack a coherent genetic structure. Maybe the pack-mentality trainers get their results for reasons entirely unrelated to their theoretical model.
Further, analyzing dogs in terms of pack dynamics leads us to overemphasize dominance and submission at the expense of a rich panoply of sensory and investigatory behaviors. (After all, dogs spend a vanishingly tiny fraction of their time working out dominance relationships by comparison to the time spent wandering, watching, exploring, sniffing, licking, rolling and mooching.)
So I have been thinking that the pack model of dog behavior offers relatively little in the way of explanatory power, and that it leads us to behave strangely and ineffectually toward our doggie friends.
(A lot of this comes straight out of Alexandra Horowitz's Inside of a Dog, a book-length treatment of canine perception and cognition. Recommended.)
You can make this inexpensive Lego Technic Fidget Spinner, using the Lego Digital Designer (LDD) .lxf Building Instructions file and Parts List available on Rebrickable.com: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-8198/DLuders/fidget-spinner/ . You hold the central Lego Technic Gears between your fingers and flick the outer wheels to create a fast-moving spinner. Or, you can pinch an outer wheel and hurl the assembly around inside your palm. The wheels and tires add heft to the spinner so that it has momentum. Try your own designs!
DNG fromJuly 2012.
Processed to monochrome in July 2022 using 'fill layer' experimentally to create pseudo sepia effect with Affinity Photo software.
"Kit lens" smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR lens set to f4 and its widest zoom setting.
I had a lot fun creating and playing with this design, I hope you will like it! :-)
There is a demo and video tutorial on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/ZM0goEv5mW0
And I made a printable template if you want to make a colorful spinner (you get to pick the colors): origami.plus/origami-finger-fidget-spinner
A basic "skeleton" for new design variations based on my Magic Folding "Fidget" Cube.
Based on this skeleton cube I found four variations of the basic design (A ... D) with the pivot points at the same positions but with some different details (changes marked with orange parts). Each of the designs has six folding steps (1 ... 6) so you get 24 different versions of a symmetrical cube or cuboid that you can use as a base for a foldable micro scale Lego model.
Home made fidget spinner.
Material: 304 grade stainless steel bar, 6mm thick, drilled, trimmed, ground, balanced and polished. Bearing: ABEC 7 hybrid ceramic 608, max spin time (so far): 4 min
Lens: Leitz Summaron 35mm F3.5
The latest playground craze. Luckily my son works in a shop that sells them so he can buy them before they go on the shelves!
Fidget went with us to see the sun set over the water. She found a little white sugar sand dune where some beach dune sunflowers had taken root and bloomed.
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The latest playground craze. Luckily my son works in a shop that sells them so he can buy them before they go on the shelves!
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That's Fidget's and Mouse's view, anyway. They got their zoomies on out in the snow yesterday.
We're glad to see it, too. The snow is good for the pastures and it's pretty, of course.
It's going to be 48F (9C) tomorrow.
This is one weird winter we're having. We usually have consistent snowpack from early December through February, and most of this will be gone in two days.
When it comes to magnets, fidget is usually a bad word. It's usually what the unfamiliar novices think magnets are for, when really using magnets requires focus, precision, and geometric awareness.
With that said, here's a preview of 3 of the fidget shapes that will be in an upcoming video about fidget shapes.
lil plastic fidget slugs now available at S2Con! they're copy + mod and they come in 14 colors and 5 different poses. also included are 3 arm poses for holding!
This is a custom fidget toy I made using my LEGO pieces. It can be used in many different ways, and I can be colored in green, blue, red, yellow, white, and black. This fidget toy is pocket sized for easy travel and durability. You can make own by using instructions here: www.etsy.com/shop/LEGOInstructions
Photographing the flowers in our garden, although I don't know what plant it is, just think it's beautiful. Happy to hear from anyone who knows the name of this plant! Google tells me it's a Dancing-lady Orchid (Oncidium) but I'm not convinced.
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
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This is my baby, even though he is the oldest. He is so spoiled but hey, what cat isn't. He is like the best snuggler though. I like that we have a fun game that we play with each other. It's basically hide and seek.
The latest playground craze. Luckily my son works in a shop that sells them so he can buy them before they go on the shelves!
Fidget looks out across the pastures at a pair of whitetail yearlings grazing 200 yards away.
It's nothing to get revved up about, but you have to keep an eye on them.
What you're seeing here is called the "Pyrenean Expression", an alert, contemplative gaze into the far distance. It's a breed characteristic and a sight I never tire of seeing.
A picky pad is basically a fidget item alternative for people who skin-pick or bite nails. I got it at the Neurospicy market to try.
I liked all the little treasures found instead, but I actually found the removal process annoying instead of satisfying as it was too difficult to remove them.
Fidget and Cooter got Lyme disease this winter. We reasoned incorrectly that dogs who run in enclosed, deer-proof paddocks didn't need winter flea and tick treatments. Reducing their long-term pesticide load seemed like a healthy thing to do, but we were wrong.
Both are doing well with treatment. The moral of this story is that dogs who live in Lyme areas need flea and tick treatment year-round.
Lyme incidence is increasing worldwide. It's in Europe, Africa, Australia and elsewhere. I couldn't find a recent world Lyme map to post. It's best to check with your vet and local health authorities in any case.