Gentle Giant Cat Fish

We have this cat fish for several years already. We bought her when she was a very tiny little fish, around an inch total length. Now, she is more than a foot long! Quite a gentle giant, I should say, doesn't move much, pretty much want to be left alone most of the time. Her favorite places in the tank is in the corner or dark places where the rest of the fishes give her the least destruction possible.

When we bought her at a local store, we were told that a cat fish is a great fish to have to keep the tank clean because they eat on algeas, so any algeas that are being developed in the tank can be a great food source for this gentle giant. You can also purchase algea tablets in most pet stores for feeding them.

We have several different types of fish in our tank. And our cat fish seems to get along with most of them pretty well. The only time I remember than she had a problem with another fish was when we had this super energetic bothersome Koi fish that drives her up a wall. It was not her fault though, the Koi fish was the one that bumps into her, and bothers her, and as a result she did try to chase that koi fish once in awhile. Unfortunately, that Koi fish passed away, and so far none of the other fishes we have seems to really bother her anymore. As long as she have her little corner away from the school of fish, she is pretty much happy and content!

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Meet Our Cockateil Bird

Meet out cockateil bird. He been with us for several years already. As im writing this blog post right now, he is standing in my shoulder next to my ear doing his little loud whistles, next to my ear? (yup, common birdie bird...) We are powerwashing his cage and giving it some thorough cleaning today. While the cage is drying outside, I decided to let him hang-out in my hand, but he walked all the way to my shoulder and he been in my shoulder for almost an hour now, staying busy making his loud little noises. We normally dont let him out of his cage because we have dogs and we dont know how the dogs will react to the bird being outside the cage, his comfort zone and his safe haven. All we know is that when our dogs are outside, they chase wild birds all the time and try to catch them. Thats why we dont want to take chances and let the dogs hurt our bird.

Here is a video of our Cockateil bird:

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The Red Panda At The Zoo

I remember, during our visit to the zoo this year (2009), we were able to see very few Red Panda there, and it was quite a challenge what we had to go through inorder to finally see them!

We like bamboos, so we ended up hanging out in an area at the zoo which had plenty of bamboo landscaping. While we were in the bamboo area, we had the opportunity to be close to where the Red Panda where situated. But being able to see the Red Panda, it was not as easy as we thought its gonna be, we had to literally find where they were hiding or where their resting place is, and when we finally saw two of them, they were sleeping, like 99 percent of the time!

We waited and waited for them to wake up, we even try to shake some of the bamboo trees trying to catch their attention, but they were hardcore tired, I should say.

It took us several tries, and transfered from different spots and angles, to finally get one to wake up and capture one awake! Here it is:

I got lucky because when I clicked the camera, the cute little roundy face Red Panda was looking back at me, sweet!

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Arguing Flamingoes

We went to the zoo few weeks ago, and encountered some of the most exotic wild species in this world. During our visit there, we got the chance t0 see flamingoes again, we saw one during our trip to a Florida park too. It was a nice relaxing day at the zoo with great sunny weather and some of the animals are in their food mood like when we were observing the flamingoes. There were quite a few flamingoes in a little section of the zoo, when all of the sudden we heared flamingoes started arguing with each other, atleast thats what it looked like to me, see the photo above. Looks like they are fighting who get the shrimps or something!

By the way, according to facts about flamingoes, they turn orange in color because of all the orange shrimps that they ate over time!

Written and Photography by JazeVox of www.HonestlyFresh.com

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Our Lonesome Dove Neighbor

We have this one dove that regularly sits in an electrical wire that feeds our neighborhoods electricity. We see her regularly there, and also moves from tree to tree. So far I never see any company that she was with around. She seem to be living alone nearby, in one of the neighboring tree. Aside from wild squirrels and house cats and dogs that we see all around, this lonesome dove is definitely living in the area as well.

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Skunk Somewhere Near

It is definitely not pleasant to wake up early in the morning and realized that a skunk is hiding nearby or passing by your place. My hubby and I had to wake up early with this nightmare this morning. We smelled a skunk. We were inside the house, but we could sensed that there was a skunk somewhere outside, near the house or passing. We have all the under the floor vents properly screened, so we are quite confident that the skunk we smelled was not under our home, thank goodness.

No idea what a skunk is? Chances are you never encountered one, or smelled one, you are lucky. If you are in the United States, ask someone you know about a skunk, and he/she can probably share her/his personal story about his/her encounter with this particular animal with an undesirebable odor.

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Go Go Go Recently

These past few days, I been averaging only around 4-5 hours sleep per night and its giving me a migraine. My offline life seems to be demanding so much of my times recently, and definitely miss writing a post here in my blog! It is definitely a sign of blog addiction when you are out somewhere, and there are segments of things that I want to write about in my blog, hahaha.

The great part is, I had the opportunities to take photos of things that I encountered these past few days, which is cool, including a little bit of a mad dog, which despite its grumpiness, I still managed to take photos of him because he looks so cute and adorable. I hope to add the photo of that dog tommorow in my www.dogscircle.com blog, so hope that you can stop by there too.

And to all my co-bloggers and fellow bloggers who have pending exchange links requests that I havent had the chance to include in my blogroll, I will do my best to do it as soon as I can, so bear with me, i will take care of it, promise. Its almost nine in the evening now, and just want to say Maayong Gabii (good night) everyone!

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Our Bird Got Character

We have a cockatiel bird, he is mostly grey in color and like many other cockatiel birds, he looks like he is wearing a tuxedo. I dont know if all cockateil or all birds are like that, but our cockatiel bird definitely has some character!

A lot of times when we wake up in the morning and open the lights in the room where he is placed, he starts humming and whistling a tune, as if he is happy we are finally awake to give him company? But when we turn on the tv, he seems to really get upset because he usually just starts being obnoxious and shouting his lungs out. He also hates it when the volume of our tv get really loud and that is when he usually shouts in unison with the tv sounds to the point where we cant undertsand the words on tv and we cant hear each other talking.

But what is quite shocking is that our cockatiel bird seems to really remember some tv commercials that he likes. And everytime such commercials are aired and played on tv, he start to sing-along and whistle with the tunes. We noticed that he likes commercials with music that are mostly lively beating and cute whistle sounding into them. He also usually dances and moves with the music.

We definitely love our cockatiel, our bird with an attitude. He can definitely rock the house!

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Chuck Roast Meat for the Dogs

Late last night, we decided to pull out a huge piece of meat, Chuck Roast, from the freezer, slow cooked it in the crock pot with chunks of potatos and carrots in it. This is the first time that we tried slow cooking a meat still frozen, fresh directly from the freezer. Due to previous experience, my hubby decided not to add water in the crock pot together with the ingredients (meat, potato and carrots) because he did not want it to overflow later on, incase the frozen meat will have more juice once it is completely thawed.

The meat has been cooking since late last night up to the time we are ready to eat tonight, so its been cooking for almost twenty (20) hours already. We re-heated the sauted mushroom that we also pre-cooked last night to go with the meat. While slicing the slow cooked meat into eatable strips, ready for serving, my hubby realized that the meat is totally dried out from lack of water, and we forgot to add water during the whole twenty hours of slow cooking it.

We tried to eat some of the dried meat anyways, but realized that we cannot stomach another meal out of it. So we decided that we are just gonna give all of it to the dogs. It is a huge meat, it could easily give us three (3) separate heavy meals, which we are no longer getting because of how it come out. So we just ended up slice the rest of the meat into cubes, put it on the container, and give it to our doggies for their next four (4) meals, starting tonight.

We usually dont do this (buy around $20 worth of meat to feed to the doggies) because of the price of meat nowadays. But this time, the dogs luck out completely, we slaved and labored for almost 20 hours with the smell and aroma of the cooking, looking forward to dinner, and then they are getting all of it! It is like an advance Merry Chrsitmas for them, i guess. They finished their meal tonight really fast, and they have smiles and waggy tails after eating, they are very happy, so we are happy knowing that they are happy to have it and that the meat didnt end up in the waste.

The good thing is, this meal disaster happened at the end of the year (2007), not the start of a new year (2008). So we think its good because we really dont want to start the new year with bunch of disastrous cooking, that would be a loooong year to go. THanks for reading :-) Truly appreciate your visit here!

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Dogs that attack

Dogs that attack humans have a very strong possibility of being mistreated, improperly trained by their owners or by people around them. Dogs are known to be mans bestfriend, so if certain dog attack human being, chances are there are a traceable cause of his undesirable behaviour. Although, dogs attacking humans are very unfortunate encounter and contradicts widely of the phrase that dogs are mans bestfriend, it would be best to give the dog a second chance in life by turning him over a professional trainer. If you own the dog that attacked a human, dont take chances, turn him over to a professional trainer right away and see if there are still ways that such dog will change behaviour. If you dont know how to professionally handle these severe dog behaviour, trust your instint and let the professional do their job. Like humans, dog can change, they can learn with proper training and proper treatment. Originally, in life, to err is human to forgive is divine. Just as we give second chances to people who hurt us, its fitting that we should give dogs that attack humans second chances. I would not recommend doing the second chance training yourself, specially that you are not trained to handle such severe cases because it might do more damage than good, so it is best to let the professionals do it. Professionals dog trainer after thorough training and observation, they will most likely be able to determine whether an attacking dog is treatable or not, so putting down an attacking dog is more like a case to case basis in each attacking dog if such dog should be put down or not, depends on his chances to change or not change for the better.

What about you? What do you think should be the RIGHT and FAIR thing to do for dogs that attack humans?

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Is adopting a dog right for you?

There is fun, joy and happiness in adopting a puppy but before you do, please evaluate your present situation if having a puppy is right for you or not. Having a puppy requires great responsibility and attention, so be sure to fully evaluate yourself if having a puppy is what you need:

Study your living environment. Do you live in a space constraint condo or hotel or a house? A house with a fenced yard might be the best place to a furry friend, condo and hotel will also be a great home for your dog if you can provide him a comfortable place for him to sleep, play and roam around. Like humans, dog have personal neccessities, so make sure that there are places where your dog can legally pee and poo. Most cities have rules and regulations about dogs, so make sure to do some research first.

Having a dog, or puppy requires your financial budget. To properly take care of having a dog, you will have the responsibility of providing the dog his food, shelter, heartworm pills, treats, visit with the veterinary clinics, and more. Do you have extra money to accomodate a dog needs that requires a portion of your monthly income?

Do you have time to take care, play and train your dog? Are you always at home or are you a busy professional that is always out and go home late at night? Because your dog will need your time to play and will need your attention and love. If you are busy and hardly have time to be able to play with your dogs, it would not be a healthy lifestyle for your dog to be alone, lock-up all day in the room while you go to work on the day, party all night, and just spend sleeping time with the dog. Dogs will require time go outside and play, run and walk. So if you think you cannot give your time for these activities, having a puppy or a dog might not be what you need.

There are several breeds of dogs available. Evaluate your reason for having a dog. Do you plan to tag along your dogs in all your travels? You might consider having smaller type of dog because it would be easier to carry them all over. Do you plan to have a puppy to be a guard dog later on? You might consider adopting dogs with strong, intimadating, and tough personalities like german dogs. Do you want puppy or dog as playmate for your kid(s)? Try more playful and not so aggressive, not known as fighting breed dogs. Knowing your reason why you want a dog, will liekly help you determine which breed of dog you want to adopt.
After all the evaluations above, and you think you are ready to adopt a dog, then be ready to recieve unconditional love!

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One lovable cockateil or cockatiel

Isn't he lovable? He is one talented and adorable cockateil (cockatiel) bird. He loves to sing and dance. He loves to play with friendly people. He got some favorite tv commercials, all of them have nice upbeat or some kind of whistle tunes in it.Cockateil at mature age, usually measures around six (6) to seven (7) inches including the tail. With proper training and perseverance by its owner, it is believe that a cockateil bird can learn to say few words. Although cockateil can be so noisy at times, literarilly shouting their lungs to the max when something is bothering them, but these birds are adorable. They are always excited to see you, letting you know they are happy with their singing and dancing. So if you are thinking of owning a bird, cockateil deserves equal consideration.

What about you, do you have a pet bird? What type of bird or pet do you have?

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Finding the best kennel for your dog

For most people, dogs are important part of the family. If you cannot bring them along with you on your trips, it matters to you that your dog will be comfortable, happy and well-attended to while you are gone. These things can be achieve by having the right kennel for your dog.

Here are some tips to make sure that your dog will be in great hands while you are away:

Great kennels will not hesitate to show you around their facilities. They will show around and show you where your furry friend will be sleeping at night.

Great kennels maintain clean environment and office. Cleanliness does matters for the health and the comfort of your dog.

Great kennels always ask the pet owner the preference of the dogs eating habit because not all pets are created equal and kennel personnel should be concern about your dogs eating habit and preferences. It is important that your dog will eat properly while you are gone, and the kennel owners should be asking you this questions so that they can prepare the proper food for your dog.

Great kennels should allow you to provide your dog toys if you want to do that. And you should be allowed to provide your bed for your dog, if you want to do that.

Great kennels should be able to line up the daily activities of your dog and let you know these activities before you leave so that you will feel comfortable and relax that your pet is gonna be okey and will be in great hand while you are gone. A kennel personnel should be able to provide atleast half an hour running or walking time outside with each boarding dog daily. Better, atleast half an hour in the morning and atleast half an hour in the afternoon walking time, to maintain good health and exercise your dog.

Great kennels should have a temperature controlled room for all the dogs specially at night where they sleep. You dont want your furry friend to be sleeping in the cold cement room without heater specially during the winter or fall season where the temperature could easily drop in the night.

The more extra great service they can provide for your dogs during their stay will be great additions to make them as comfortable and at home as possibly.

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