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The weather has conspired against me once again and the upcoming long weekend [Queens Birthday] is supposed to be bringing snow down to low levels along with a cold front that’s moving in from Antarctica

Just what the sky bunnies have been waiting for and the Queenstown Winter festival should be a cracker this year

“Bummer scene good buddy” if you’re a biker though,I got to take ‘beasty out for a couple of hours yesterday and had a bit of fun albeit cold fun

We already have a good dumping of snow on the Alps and a few of the ski fields will get to open early this year so its good for our local economy, it all helps

The recession is starting to effect our city now and we’ve had several hundred people laid off from two companies collapsing and one relocating to Mexico and Thailand, several hundred is not many people but in Dunedin there’s possibly only 30,000 that work, so it’s a big chunk to remove from the local economy, and that’s not counting all the smaller businesses that have had to lay off a couple of staff in order to reduce overheads and adjust to less work flow

Spending has sowed down and a lot of the smaller shops are shutting up as well

The media hype is that this recession will match the “great depression” of  the late 1930’s into the early 1940’s and the war years

Scary times for us all I think

So if we can get a good long ski season it will be a much needed boost

hopefully lots of crisp and sunny motorcycle friendly days to go with it

subject change

I’m still wound up about the bastards that shot the white tiger for attacking and killing the handler, i feel in some way vindicated as the handlers family have also questioned why the tiger had to be executed for doing exactly what tigers are made to do

All day long people walk up and down outside the tigers enclosure always out of reach, then he has a chance to grab one inside his enclosure, what’s he supposed to do?, think “I shouldn’t attack???”

He’s been getting constantly teased like a kitten with a bit of string , then he gets in a position to grab and he’s supposed to have the latteral thinking to know that grabbing is a “no-no”

I’m sure that with the love the handler had of his cats and the knowledge he had of the beasts he worked with on a daily basis, he would not wanted the animal to be put to death

what a sad waste of such an awesome animal

[Thats enough venting]

When I was in Singapore I got to see the white tigers in the Singapore zoo, fantastic animals, I’ve also been to the Sinaracha Tiger Zoo [farm] in thailand a couple of times

I dont think its good to have these great animals caged but often its the only way we have of protecting them from extinction, and the experience of being so close to something so powerful was a buzz I must admit, at the Shriracha Zoo you get to hold the tiger cubs and bottle feed them [for a small price of course] so I can even say I have “wrasseled with a Tiger and I won,” it was kinda cool, I got all moochy and wanted to carry him off home with me haha

My garden variety tigers are doing well and with the introduction of the “dental hygine biscuits” Fuzzy’s breath has started to get better already [my Da suggested that I may have been shiffing the wrong end the cheecky old bugger]

Scardy Cat has put on weight flat out since coming in from the wild and she will be a big cat by the time she gets to fully grown, she is still vary timid and jumps at the slightest noise,  so her name has become appropriate

Cheeky has been particualy moochy with me, shes likes to “talk” to you and makes lots of sounds none of wich you could call a meow as such but not irritating either just little “growls” and “mewing mixed in with purring” sometimes we will chat away to each other for a copule of minutes or so, its funny as something thats funny, I’ll talk and she will reply then I talk again and she replies and so on it realy is just like a conversation I kid you not

The Fuzz Bucket just kicked Scaredy Cat off his spot on my bed , these guys are better entertainment than television haha

Gotta

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