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Breath of fresh air

October 9th 2010 02:49

Who you calling glum bum? It's this interminable winter. Is there to be no end to it?

It has been a long winter here. It has been one of our colder winters, and one of our wettest.

We thought the big day would never come.

The daylight hours have been lengthening for months, but the big day refused to come.

It has been weeks since the first leaves unfurled on the peach tree, and our own lemons have been zesting our cooking for quite a while now. But when, oh, when, would the big day come?

It came today. It came just moments ago. Standing on the front porch in warm spring sunshine, Scratchy half-closed his eyes, lifted his face as if to savour the season of regeneration and birth, and then officially announced the end of winter by opening his mouth and panting.

Honoured Zoomies readers, ladies and gentlemen, bitches and dogs, it is with pleasure that I formally announce the end of winter.

Hear, hear.

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Some people are a mess

August 9th 2010 03:46

Noo Yorkers have attitood, meaning they are not shy about making statements when something annoys them.

Take Jay Shells. What annoys him is people walking dogs who keep walking after their dogs do poo.

We’re with Jay on this, of course. People who don’t pick up after their dogs, thereby leaving it to someone else to do so, don’t deserve the right to walk down clean streets.

Their dogs deserve better owners.

Jay Shells feels the same, but he doesn’t use words to express his indignation. He’s a painter, and so he decided to put paint to canvas to express himself.

The result was a 2.6-metre message which has been turned into a poster which now adorns many walls in New York subways. The artwork features the message “Clean Up After Your Dog!” and has doggy poop bags attached.

Go Jay.

news.com.au

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The dingo could be extinct within 20 years

March 2nd 2009 22:01

The dingo, a pure-bred, wild Australian native dog, could be extinct within 20 years.

The annual conference of the Ecological Society of Australia, held in Sydney recently, was told that in some parts of the country as few as 15 to 20 per cent of dingoes remain pure, with the rest being cross-bred.

Dr Ricky Spencer, of the native and pest animal unit of the University of Western Sydney, told the conference that domestic and feral dogs were destroying the native animal.

"The domestic dogs are actually mixing with the dingoes. I guess you'd call it a form of genetic pollution to some degree (because) they're originated from European settlement,'' he said after the conference.

The cross-breeding is also turning dingoes into larger dogs, with the average body mass of wild dingoes increasing more than 20 per cent in the past 40 years.

"The pure dingo is very close to becoming extinct," and it was sad that Australia was losing an "iconic'' species, Dr Spencer said.

The canis lupus dingo is also known as warrigal, maliki, mirigung, Decker dog, boololomo and Australian native dog.

It is not technically Australian, however. It is thought to have entered Australia about 4,000 years ago from Asia, and dingoes are still to be found in South-east Asia, mostly in small pockets of remaining natural forest.

Dingoes have features in common with both wolves and modern dogs, and are regarded as more or less unchanged descendants of an early ancestor of modern dogs. The name dingo comes from the language of the Eora Aboriginal people, the original inhabitants of the Sydney area.

news.com.au, en.wikipedia.org, dognewsaustralia.com.au

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Innovation in recycling

January 9th 2009 23:30

Welcome to our guide to correct procedures for discarding recyclable containers. Today we will look specifically at cleaning containers before disposal.

Cleaning containers before placing them in the recycle bin is both a courtesy and a practical help for the collecting agency. Many local authorities will recommend a rinse in the washing-up water after doing the dishes, a good way to save water at the same time.

This, however, gives only a moderate clean. In our house, we have installed two cleaning units which can make a dirty container spotless within minutes. The units are equipped with long, sensitive tongues to reach the bottoms of even the deepest containers.

These versatile units, which can be folded and stored in the corner of your sofa, are available from a Greyhound Adoption Program near you.

A close-up of the residue removal attachment of the cleaning unit. The attachments, which are conveniently stored inside the unit, do
not wear out and do not need replacing.

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