It’s Mid-Winter here in the Southern Hemisphere, in Melbourne, Australia, to be exact.    We’re the place that’s reputed to have four seasons in one day, and sometimes, it really feels that way!
Since it’s rather cold at present, the cat has decided the only place to be is inside, unless the sun is shining.   One of [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I love cats, and have a very spoiled one of my own.
Do you have a cat which lives near you, which comes to your door and
begs, pretending it’s a starving stray?   I’m sure that there are many cats
out there who lead double lives as con artists!
One cat comes calling regularly, and [...]

In my garden, there are quite a few native plants, which seem to attract the native
birds. This is great, as I love having them there, except when they eat my fruit,
of course!
The question is, I feed the birds sometimes, but wonder just how much if overdoing it,
and making them too reliant [...]

A short time ago, while handling one of my pet pythons, he suddenly decided to bite
me. This is something he’s never done before, and I’m at a bit of a loss as to why.
It was a very hot day, and he was certainly very active, but the only reason I can
think of is that [...]

We just got back from a holiday in New Zealand and thought that the blackbird eggs would
have hatched by now.
Unfortunately, they hadn’t, and it looks very much as if the birds have abandoned
the nest, as they don’t seem to bother when you go near it now.    Perhaps the
neighbourhood cats were bothering them too much [...]

This week I discovered a blackbird’s nest, with a couple of eggs in it.   It was only about four feet
off the ground in my conifer near the study window. I don’t think the birds are going to be
successful in raising any young, because we have so many cats around here [...]

What is wrong with people?  Even more cruelty to animals!
On the news last night was an innocent, but very traumatized little puppy, only a few weeks old.
Someone had cut off his ears and tail with scissors or similar, and dumped him in a school yard.  This case had even the people at the animal shelter [...]

The police have charged a man with this offence…..

Thought I’d put a couple of pics of my snakes up for you to see.   This is one of the Antaresia stimsoni having a look around the cage, which she shares with another female and a male.

This is a Morelia bredli, basking under his heat lamp – it’s a really cold day.

Snakes, and other reptiles, [...]

…..kangaroo shot with a bow and arrow – Apparently the animal has now died