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In memorium

February 10, 2009 by Jen

Poppers

A year and a half ago I wrote about Poppers (in the picture above) because he looks a lot like our dog Monty. His owner Hazel emailed me last week to tell me that they’d had to put Poppers down.

I can only imagine how she felt when this had to happen because I’m dreading the day I may have to do the same with Monty and I know I’ll be devastated.

His mum Hazel said:

“Poppers was “probably 11″ when we got him from the local rescue centre near Northampton in April 2006 but no-one seemed to know for sure. He’d been kicked at least once (probably more often) and had been waiting in the centre for four years before we adopted him.

I think, to be honest, he just gave up. He didn’t seem to be in much pain but he didn’t like the cold weather. He slipped on the ice a couple of times which made him very wary about going out through his flap into the garden. And the ignomy of ending up doing the business in the house was even worse.

My husband and I were both with him at the end – he just went quietly to sleep and that was it.

Yes, of course I’m sad but he had a wonderful time with us and we were lucky to have him even if for a shorter time than we would have liked.”

Poppers – here’s to you and I’m so glad you spent the last few years of your life with a loving family.

While I’m on the subject of animals I can’t not mention all the displaced animals from the Victorian bushfires, and all the dead ones. The human toll is talked about constantly – now up in the high 100s – and the animal one is around 10,000 according to wildlife experts. And the animals that are left have nothing much to eat. It’s pretty hard to even contemplate. I’m at a loss for words really. Apparently about $57 million has been raised and there are many people doing other things like donating blood and clothes etc to help out. People always come through in really tough situations like this. It’s good to see.

Update: Money can also be donated to Wildlife Victoria to help out the animals. Also have a look at koala Sam the survivor.

Last but not least, as this as an in memorium post, it’s one year ago today that my cousin was killed in a car accident. Not much more to say really.

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Storms

February 8, 2009 by Jen

Dust at Lower Light

I drove over to my parents yesterday in the 41 degree heat and strong winds. My car has air conditioning so the heat wasn’t really a problem. The winds were quite strong and the dust they blew up was full-on. At one stage it was like driving through thick fog as I could hardly see a few metres in front of me. When I took these photos the visibility was quite good in comparison.

It was a bit like being on a different planet because the visibility was so poor and seeing dust like this is so uncommon.

Strong winds and lots of dust

Thankfully we made it in one piece and didn’t break down or anything.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for far too many people in Victoria, Australia. They’re are suffering devastating bushfires that will be remembered for a long long time.

On Twitter the trending topic at the moment is #bushfires. I watched one of the many special news broadcasts this afternoon where they showed the mayhem the fires have wrought and the word holocaust has been mentioned more than once as that’s how bad they are.

When I watched a news report at 4.30 today about 30 were confirmed dead. Now that number is up to 76 with at least 700 homes burned down

Now if we could just move some of that flood water from Queensland to Victoria it would make everyone happy.

If you’re looking to donate there is a Victoria Bush Fire relief fund already setup through the National Australia Bank. Bank account details: BSB: 082-001, Account: 860 046 797.

You can also donate online to the Red Cross. Full details of how to donate are on the SBS news site.

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