Amuze the Mob

29/08/2025

First time I have seen Bags so relaxed playing with another dog. Daisy is healing up well🙌

27/08/2025

This little duck-billed platypus will grow up to be the only venomous egg-laying mammal on the planet.

The duck-billed platypus is one of the most fascinating and unique creatures on Earth a true evolutionary marvel. Native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, this semi-aquatic mammal looks like a mashup of several animals: it has the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, the webbed feet of an otter, and it lays eggs like a reptile, yet it's undeniably a mammal.

Belonging to a rare group called monotremes (egg-laying mammals), the platypus is one of only five surviving species in this group the others being echidnas. Female platypuses lay one to three leathery eggs and keep them warm by curling around them until they hatch. Once born, the mother nurses her young, but here's another twist: she doesn't have n!pples. Instead, milk is secreted through pores in the skin and pools on grooves in her abdomen for the babies to lap up.

The platypus's duck-like bill isn't just for show it's a highly sensitive organ packed with electroreceptors, allowing the animal to detect the electric fields of prey underwater, such as insects, larvae, small crustaceans, and worms. This sensory ability is so advanced that the platypus hunts with its eyes, ears, and nostrils closed, relying entirely on this sixth sense while diving.

Despite its adorable appearance, the male platypus has a venomous spur on its hind legs.
During the breeding season, this spur can deliver a painful, though non-lethal, sting to rivals or threats a rare trait among mammals.

Measuring about 30-45 cm (12-18 inches) in body length, with a flat, paddle-like tail, and weighing between 1 to 2.5 kg (2-5.5 lbs), the platypus is perfectly adapted to its aquatic lifestyle. It spends much of its time in freshwater rivers, streams, and lakes, where it swims gracefully using its front webbed feet and steers with the back ones.

Currently, the duck-billed platypus is listed as Near Threatened, primarily due to habitat loss, water pollution, and the impacts of climate change. Conservation efforts are underway to protect its river ecosystems and ensure this bizarre and beloved animal continues to thrive.

In every way, the platypus challenges what we think we know about mammals it's weird, wonderful, and wonderfully weird. 💯💭😬

[Credit: Animal World]

20/08/2025

Daisy 🌼

20/08/2025

20/08/2025

Sparrow enjoying a vacuum 😂

20/08/2025

Daisy had her surgery last Friday. Thanks to the team at Moruya Vet Hospital, her femoral head was removed and the hip socket was cleaned out and made smooth. It was a long and hard operation but she is now recovering well.
It looks like Daisy had been hit by a car at some stage fracturing her pelvis and hip. It also may be why she has damage to her two front teeth.
Just blows my mind that someone would dump a dog in the pound with such horrific injuries. I can only imagine the pain this poor puppy has been in.
A testament to this dogs beautiful temperament, she is so loving and so stoic.

20/08/2025

Wow ❤️

17/08/2025

13/08/2025

Our beautiful foster Daisy will be heading in for surgery to have her femoral head removed on Friday. Thank you to everyone who donated towards this surgery.