Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[MROO]

I thought the same until I have 3 and they crow all day and all night or at least it seems like it but they seriously crow in the middle of the night like midnight, 2, 3, 4am, constantly and a ton throughout the day too

I think three is just too many for our flock though so sadly I think I’m going to have to cull at least one of them. Starting with the “problem bird” I think is doing it Then if there is still crowing at night, I will know it wasn’t him and will cull his half brother, the pretty one

I think my little banty can stay since he sounds like a squeaky toy compared to my big huge standard boys I actually used to think he was loud LOL

Anyway, sorry for rambling on here. I love the country sounds and I used to love my boys’ crowing when they first started but one of them likes to hear himself talk and gets the other boys into trouble he gets them started and causes crow offs lol

I currently have two in isolation on the front porch. When they get started (every time headlights come down the road) it sounds like the movie Deliverance, with the crows echoing from the two out from to the eight ... yes eight, out back. I LOVE my bachelor flock ... except during midnight serenades!

 

[MROO]

And the statistical information about dogs and the south can be found where? Any factual sources?

I don't know abut statistical information, but the rescue I got Crazy Dog from runs to Georgia on a regular basis for strays. They're one of three that I know of, personally. There are lots of strays here in MD, too, but most are either pittie/pittie mixes or itty-bitties. I wanted a bigger dog and I have a "thing" for furry coats and plumy tails - so we went hunting ...

 

[MROO]

@sdm111 , if you are referring to my comments about the Katrina dog migration after the hurricane, yes, there are interesting studies showing the spread of heartworms, specifically, after all those dogs were moved to new homes elsewhere. It was a fine rescue effort, but disease spread was not figured into the rescue operations, at least as far as heartworm and tick borne illnesses were concerned.
Mary

Katrina happened so quickly and so violently that it became a lesson in how not to handle a crisis on many, many levels. I'm sure that pet-borne disease was one of them, Truck and van-loads of displaced pets were brought out of the floodwaters. Many were adopted out online before they even got here and handed over to their new families immediately upon arrival. Lesson learned. Quarantine is real and necessary - as is thorough vet clearance on both ends of the adoption link.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I'm awake before the alarm...
It's new years Eve.
This has been a year for the record books.
I'm unsure how I'll ring in this new one.
Rained lightly all night with occasional gusts. It's to rain near constantly thru the next 20+ hours.
Winds forecast to regain strength.
Around midnight a wintery mix is forecast to show its face....
Acknowledging that which I have no control over and, that which I do; the scale is vastly unbalanced.
This perspective is mearly a counter point. For me, to "feel a balance" returned -
I could talk in circles or share a picture...
Would that become a spiral down the hole? Did this make a *balance* appear on the screen?
No worry's here, dogs are nosing me to go out.
I'm ready for breakfast anyhow.
Cheers.

I'm telling ya man, bang pots and pans or scream out the door on midnight. Gotta scare the old year away.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

 

[ShrekDawg]

I currently have two in isolation on the front porch. When they get started (every time headlights come down the road) it sounds like the movie Deliverance, with the crows echoing from the two out from to the eight ... yes eight, out back. I LOVE my bachelor flock ... except during midnight serenades!

Oh gosh!! two of mine blend their crows together occasionally when they get going they’re half brothers and sometimes synchronize their crowing LOL although not at night oddly. I think at night only one of them is doing the crowing. During the day one of them (maybe the same one?) also always gets them going cause he loves to crow I love all my boys and hate to have to cull them but nobody can take the crowing anymore

 

[ChocolateMouse]

https://reason.com/2020/12/30/when-...s-stepped-up-now-theyre-facing-14060-fda-fees

This is a bummer. Wondering if there's something politicians could do about it if they ever bothered to actually do something about anything.

 

[RoseHawke]

Can't wait to see the back of this year. Even though I realize it's at best an artificial line we'll be crossing, New Year will at least be a new year and we can hope for better.

We're more cat people than dog people; we had to send two of our kitties "over the bridge" in the last few months. Narsil had some un-diagnosed condition that despite steroids and medication and multiple vet visits just kept getting thinner and thinner and was obviously miserable, then a few months later his brother Mithril who had been on medication for years couldn't walk one morning and refused to eat. They were littermates of not quite sixteen. Major Tom has been diagnosed diabetic so he's getting insulin twice a day now. Thankfully it's not very expensive so there's that at least.

My last pup was my sweet Pekingese Kellie girl, and I still miss her almost 15 years later.

 

[Cynthia12]

Woke up with some extra money today. Prayers that it helps a lot of folks affected by this nasty covid.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Ahh, I wish I could have cats but G and D are BOTH allergic. ;o;

The only way I get cats is when I have a barn for them. :T