Kind of like an underground rescue movement for small animals, just with little current movement (life is a complicated creature).
I have some Deano Designs C&C cage liners dug up from the archives/a box squirreled away in our house. There are two 3x2 liners and one 4x2 liner. All in the same colours (see below).
All are in very good condition.
I'm just going to say the 4x2 liner is $20 and the two 3x2 liners are $30 for both (or $15 each). Pick up is from Annerley, Brisbane.
Thank you!
I seem to have received more encouragement for spontaneous, free for all posts than expected. My whims are many, but erratic. I’m sorry, but also: okay. You asked for it. I can just be myself and thought dump (ir)regularly. With a little bit research thrown in.
I have decided (again) to write a guinea pig and small mammal keeping ebook. With a very personalised slant, of course. I feel like a series of essays rather than a structured guide to basic pig keeping would work better for me and would mean I actually finish it.
I want provide science-based muddied with opinion-type essays. With obviously clear delineation between “this is what the research suggests” and “this is a thought my brain had at 3am in between barely tolerating insomnia, completing maths problems in my head, and contemplating the existential issues we all face, including guinea pigs”.
When/if I write my ebook I shall link to it and you can download it. I haven’t decided if it should be free. It probably should be. I feel like writing informative and educational narratives is something I enjoy, and maybe you would like to read it for free, anyway.
I thought I would ask what you (rare follower, even rarer reader of posts, and maybe commenter) what you would like me to post on this page?
I can do the following things:
- science and information based posts
- photos, poorly drawn drawings, etc.
- offer some sort of service/product/something or other
- something else?
Day to day piggy life stuff I no longer want to do because it affects me too much when I write about (eventual) illness, palliative care, and death of individual pigs. However! general posts I can do. Even some back to basics posts: diet, housing, etc. Or, fun stuff for me, which are topics like guinea pig behaviour viewed from an evolutionary biology/animal behaviour tinted lens, exploring genetic variation in differing populations of guinea pigs worldwide, congenital diseases and inherited disorders in piggies, and so on and so forth.
I’ll try to not get sick of social media and have a mild freak out and delete everything again, but no promises...
And yes it is 2:00am here and I am not asleep. And why yes, I do plan on heading into work tomorrow, I just need to clearly be on Facebook and drink rooibos tea first.
Thelonious in the garden that will take over the world, weather willing. I, for one, welcome our new lawn-Triffid overlords. Your day has come.
Nobody asked, but there are many reasons why I am a scattered husk of a person right now. This year has been an intense one: I’ve moved interstate twice, with many animals, lived in a new city for nearly a whole year, separate from my partner. Financially, it was becoming difficult. And the distance was exhausting. My Dad passed away a few months ago due to complications from liver damage (as an adult, and I think especially living in Australia, some people are, sometimes, confused as to why I don’t drink alcohol. My relationship with my father improved greatly after he stopped drinking but it really only left a few months of having something resembling a normal parent, adult child relationship… and now there is only empty space there. More voids than I’d like to live with, but this is all I have left and I have to sort through it all).
And the emotional roller coaster of that, and unstable and sometimes aggressive other family members (mental health issues run through my family like pond weeds), and the distance, the endless distance. It has not been a simple string of grief, but a messy ball that I’m still untangling. Then there’s physical health stuff, as well. Biopsies and pain, weak muscles and things I cannot digest.
I feel like I’m an ailing physical and mental health sandwich, with me being a big old slab of cold, unflavoured, quivering tofu slapped in the centre. Just add salt.
And sometimes the animals have food and water and are safe and that’s all that I can offer. It’s a day by day thing.
I am around, yes. Please enjoy secular well wishes (may you always be blessed with a good batch of hay, excellent dental health, and housing and food security that enables deficiencies and other health issues, both mental + physical, to be kept at bay). The world is truly an accelerant-soaked raging blaze in a dumpster right now and like a lot of people I am not completely okay but also I have a roof over my head and am able to selectively focus in my bubble of small animals so I am, clearly, doing better than a lot of other folks.
Be nice to each other. Sometimes kindness is the best form of rebellion… in spite of, despite… everything. Learn from your mistakes and especially those of others, carry them with you, remember, and be better moving forward.
I’m trying to work out what to do with this page. It has some reach, which imparts a degree of potential impact when it comes to helping small animals. I have limitations which means I am not capable of taking on rescue work myself probably ever again, but I am flip flopping on how to still have a positive impact. It’s a muddle. I am going to try out a few ideas and projects, many I will abandon or fail at, get bored with, rinse, repeat. I’ll find something though. Fling enough passionfruit seeds on a wall and eventually some will stick: lessons learnt from a cockatoo.
The piggies are doing OK. Ageing, though, which is always a blessing.
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