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David's Shutter Bug Club
Kerry:
--- Quote from: injest on January 07, 2008, 10:01:48 pm ---
I love his hang dog expression...he looks like he just lost his best friend.... :laugh: :laugh:
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Gasp! What is that thing on that poor horse's nose, Jess? Does he have a bad cold? He looks soooo sad! :'(
Kerry:
As promised, here is one of the few good pics I've ever taken! It's a big pic, so you may have to scroll over.
I get some great sunsets at my place. The one on this particular evening was absolutely stunning. I spontaneously grabbed my camera, stepped out onto the bedroom balcony, poked the lens through the branches of the 9ft fig tree that dominates most of the available space out there, and this is the result. It's looking towards Sydney's Little Italy and the spires on the horizon are the local town hall and a church on Norton Street, in the heart of the Italian Quarter.
In all honesty, I took lots of pics and discarded the others, that being the joy of a digital camera.
I was pleased with the way the leaves of the fig are framing the sunset, which is a complete and total fluke!!!
injest:
--- Quote from: Kerry on January 08, 2008, 06:22:06 am ---Gasp! What is that thing on that poor horse's nose, Jess? Does he have a bad cold? He looks soooo sad! :'(
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:laugh: :laugh:
he is a 'cribber'. That apparatus prevents him from doing it.
Cribbing is a nervous habit some horses develop (why we do not know although there is some evidence that it may be hereditary)...anyway, they catch stuff with their upper teeth and 'suck' air..they will do it until they are in a almost 'stoned' state. Some will even forego eating to crib. Some barns will refuse to allow a cribber to be boarded at their barn for fear that other horses will pick up the habit. It wear their upper teeth down to nothing if left unchecked (as well as destroying fences..since fences are the favorite thing for them to catch their teeth on...)
injest:
--- Quote from: Kerry on January 08, 2008, 06:40:04 am ---As promised, here is one of the few good pics I've ever taken! It's a big pic, so you may have to scroll over.
I get some great sunsets at my place. The one on this particular evening was absolutely stunning. I spontaneously grabbed my camera, stepped out onto the bedroom balcony, poked the lens through the branches of the 9ft fig tree that dominates most of the available space out there, and this is the result. It's looking towards Sydney's Little Italy and the spires on the horizon are the local town hall and a church on Norton Street, in the heart of the Italian Quarter.
In all honesty, I took lots of pics and discarded the others, that being the joy of a digital camera.
I was pleased with the way the leaves of the fig are framing the sunset, which is a complete and total fluke!!!
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soooo pretty!!!
for some reason it makes me think 'tropical', the colors are so vivid!! VERY nice photo!! thank you!
Kerry:
--- Quote from: injest on January 08, 2008, 09:01:39 am --- :laugh: :laugh:
he is a 'cribber'. That apparatus prevents him from doing it.
Cribbing is a nervous habit some horses develop (why we do not know although there is some evidence that it may be hereditary)...anyway, they catch stuff with their upper teeth and 'suck' air..they will do it until they are in a almost 'stoned' state. Some will even forego eating to crib. Some barns will refuse to allow a cribber to be boarded at their barn for fear that other horses will pick up the habit. It wear their upper teeth down to nothing if left unchecked (as well as destroying fences..since fences are the favorite thing for them to catch their teeth on...)
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Poor horsey! Will he have to wear that thing all his life, for ever, or will he grow out of being a cribber? (I'm thinking of a child growing out of having to us a dummy/pacifier)
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