melbournebudgies

Hey Maesie we have Virgin broadband, no landline! It costs us $60 a month and we get everything included. The only thing we pay extra for is non-virgin mobile phone calls and I hardly make any mobile phone calls anyway. Haven't had any major problem with reliability and the security seems fine.

That Kaz is animal rights gone mad In a local wildlife reserve here we have roos starving to death because there are too many of them but they can't get approval to cullthem because of animal rights issues. The activists suggestion is to feed them instead! How many roos do they think we will have then...

The birdroom has breeder cages in it BUT as well as being ratters the dogs would kill any birds they could get at too, so I wont keep them in the birdroom. Well that probably ain't a good idea then My dog won't eat anything, heck she's a farm dog and her best friends a rabbit...go figure.

Hey AV, this is blondie, the boy I have in a breeding box now, his girlfriend is hiding behind him but you get the idea

In Vic atleast there is almost no land at all that is completely unalienated. The major problem with funding for cat control is that cats don't just live in areas under parks depts control, they live on privat property and they live in populated areas. They could kill every cat in the state and national parks and they could be repopulated from private land and vice versa.

I thought legally they had to supply you with a phone line for safety reasons. It is your responsibility to connect it but theirs to put it in...

I can probably answer that Chryso. The environmental funding in this country is a load of ****. There just isn't the funds to completely control them.

Actually didn't do many in Zoo, most of my field trips were for botany. I did go to Heron Island up in the Whitsundays last year for zoology though, now you can't tekll me that wouldn't take your fancy Snorkling on the reef... lying on the beach... pretty tough

Doing my last exam ever next week! Yippeeee! I get to graduate in October, had heaps of fun (especially on the field trips) but I'm glad it's over...

Hey you're doing the captive animals version of my degree I'm a Conservation Biology chick :hap:

Which uni? I just finished my science degree in Botany and Zoology at La Trobe

It sounds right but I don't trust Wikipedia personally

Well I include fertile in my definition of viable but yes... Interesting that they found the same thing with the Savannahs, early generations of male offspring are infertile. I think that you would find that regardless of instancts they would still not be considered the same species. Producing only female fertile offspring would not result in a sustainable population. Caheao what are you studying at uni?

I was under the impression that ony some 'Liger' were fertile and that most were actually infertile. by definition a species is a group of animals that can produce viable offspring. All cats were originally descended from wild cats, the issue at hand is the size of the animal. It sounds like these guys aren't as big as they are claimed by their opponents.

Bengals aren't overly large cats so they aren't as big as the bloke says on the snake site then. Sounds like the whole thing is a bit of a mess.

Is the bird room dog safe? Maybe your ratter needs to spend a night or two in there...

She's getting there slowly, white spots at the moment

Hey neat you will have to wait for pics of my little brown rescue girl once she gets her nice white feathers. She is a violet cinnamon dutch pied fallow spangle . The fallow has resulted in the cobalt colour basically dissappearing from under the violet so she just looks lavender purple in her pied spots. Her wings are almost clear except for a couple of pale cinnamon spangle near the wig base, other than she will be pure white

According to Kaz's research Neat these are already in Austraia Derek if a environmental impact assessment had been conducted a couple of hundred years ago on the impact of hard hooved animals on the Australian environment we might have thought differently about it. We are more educated now. I am currently working on a huge project for the vic governement which will allow us tyo analyse the effect of land use history(including different types of grazing) and it's affect on the current vegetation quality. I think there is a big difference between an animal that can survive in the wild and one that can't. A show budgie would not survive in the wild,a large cat would.

Yes

It's really disturbing how many animals get dumped. The sad thing is it isn't restricted to cross breeds or anything, there are some really expensive animals getting dumped. A while ago there was a litter of afghan pups in a pound up north even! They aren't all that common to start with so for them to be dumped at the pound boggles the mind!

I agree with Kaz there, they don't look like albino eyes to me

Thanks Kaz, very interesting... I'll have a chat with the guys at the sanctuaryI do see the importation of preadtory species as different to the importation of show budgies thoguh Derek. I can't see your show budgies eating our native wildlife, these guys could survive in the wild IF they did become feral.

And even when they are planned someone always stuffs up. They imported cane toads to eat cane beetles, it didn't occur to anyone that the beetles live up on the cane and the toads live on the ground!

The petition was actually given to me by the Melbourne Wildlife Sanctuary so I wasn't necessarily jumping on the band wagon, I figured it was all above board. I will do a bit more research and send them some info as it sounds like they don't have all the facts themselves.