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5 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

# Too close to a boundary wall?

# Plant them in May-June start of the rainy season.

# There are rubber trees in the NW.

I will give it another go... May June time.

There were planted well away from walls and other plants.. planted in the lawn.

Only other think I can think is that soil is not the right pH or something is eating their roots.

They grew a few leaves, then started to turn orange / red, but were still healthy.  Then the leaved wilted and they died.

I wish some of these storms would come to Chiang Mai.  My land is bone dry and some of the trees look really bad.  My lake has half the water it usually has too. 

I always get impatient for the rains after the dry season drags on!!!

Also sick of watering the vegetables and shrubs! 

12 minutes ago, Arjen said:

 

Problem is that with evertything you use on your dog, the tick is already on the dog. And for being killed by Ivermectine the ticks need to drink blood....

That's right, but when the ticks die, they are gone... they can't reproduce and infest your house and land with more tick for the future.  Regular use of the Ivermectine will eventually wipe out the tick population in the house.. and most of them in the garden... so its great to prevent exposure to the tick diseases.

My 2 dogs got the live parasite from ticks.  One was only a puppy and nearly died.  I know the signs now straight away... and my older dog got it a second time about a year later.

Now I always use Ivermectine drops on the back of their necks... and I have not seen a tick on them for many years now... nor seen any on my land. 

(I also got a few Guinea Fowl on the property as they love to eat ticks and other insects)

On ‎31‎/‎03‎/‎2017 at 6:36 PM, Gerard052 said:

So that's freakin idiot like you that waste water and think that's a lot of fun.  That just goes to show you that you have a very weak mind.  In Pattaya it last ten days and a couple of years ago a farang threw water at me although I asked him not to, result: he ended up with a broken nose and never threw water at me after that.  Just a friendly reminder.

You were out in the middle of Songkhran festival in Pattaya (a tourist place) and when you got some water on you (at a water throwing festival) you broke someone's nose?

Think you need to take a look at your decisions in life.....

and you are calling the majority of the Thai population, and all the tourists 'retards' with low IQ?

If you don't want to say no... then don't. 

Do what you want.

No one cares what you do.... we don't know you or your wife. 

2 hours ago, Catoni said:

     Coral "bleaching" is a good thing.  It's a way in which coral adapts to changing conditions.  Releasing its endosymbiotic algae that is suitable for previous conditions.... (bleaching) and over time taking in endosymbiotic algae more suited for new conditions.   

 

   If it wasn't for the ability to bleach and take in other forms of algae, and perhaps other ways of adaptation we are still learning about, coral would have gone extinct a few hundred million years ago. 

 

   Coral been around for more than 500 million years.... and has survived "Greenhouse Earth" where our planet has been so warm as to have no ice at all.. and forests growing at the poles... it's survived Ice Ages.. like the Ice Age we are in right now..and survived Glacial Periods like the last one which lasted for 85,000 years and we just came out of abut 15,000 years ago.     It's survived the Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction.....  It's survived the Siberian Traps eruptions and the great Permian Mass Extinction event...     It's survived huge asteroid impact events like the Chicxulube Impact Event which drastically changed the climate virtually overnight... 

 

    Coral will still be around..... for a few hundred million more years at least...  

Think you are right... but I still want to be able to see it now.. and for my friends and family to be able to swim about and see the beautiful coral reefs and fish. 

If we keep ruining the stuff now it will be a mess and we will loose all that beauty.  Once we humans go extinct, reduce in number, or get super clever and stop wrecking and exploiting everything I am sure it would come back too.

I have tried to grow a few rubber trees over the years... just in my garden.  But each time they grow really slowly and the go yellow and die.

They are in full sun, well drained soil, and a watered every day when first planted.. but not to make the soil waterlogged.

I am up in Chiang Mai.  Is the climate in Chiang Mai unsuitable for rubber trees?  I see lots of them in the south, but have not seen any around where I live in the North.

Thanks. 

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

Yes, corals die when touched by humans.

I know that statement already.... I asked why it dies?  I think this is a myth!

As I said... fish and sea creatures are all over the coral... so why don't they kill it.

I think the actual cause of death is people standing on it and crushing it with their flippers, as well as the boats smashing it up... and pollution... NOT just touching it with a human hand!

Coral will die if humans touch it?  Why?

I see fish and animals eating it and crawling all over it all the time.

I think the problem is the boats smashing it up, oil and petrol being dumped over it, and sewerage and other pollution in the sea.

I can see this is not realistic or even going to happen.  Even if it creates green spaces in the city.... what about the huge areas of land in the countryside being filled in and converted to housing estates and factories?  A ten percent increase in green areas in the city, will be nothing because of a huge percent conversion of green spaces to building sites out in the country.  This country needs to get a better control of building and construction in both urban and rural areas, unless it wants to loose most of its beautiful countryside to urbanization. 

5 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

To remind you:

rats can transmit the following disease: Leptospirosis, Hantavirus, Tularemia, The black Plague, a.o.

Believe it or not, at home we drinking everymorning orange juice, to prevent the above said deseases, always cleaning the oranges before crush.

Orange juice can prevent Leptospirosis, Hantavirus, Tularemia and the Black Plague???  Wow!

Humans beings carry more bacterial cells than Human cells.  You are more likely to get a disease from another human being than a rat.

Streptococcus, Hepatitis B and C, HIV, Herpes etc etc. 

Yes, rats are unhygienic and should not be walking around on our food... but think about how many people you personally know who have got a disease off a rat, then this about how many people you know who have got sick from another human being....

I have lived her many years.  I eat about 70  percent Thai food, from markets, local small restaurants, and food carts.  I cook also at home for the rest.  NEVER been sick from eating from these places... despite the low hygiene standards compared to the West. However, I has hospitalized in the UK from sever food poisoning I got eating at an expensive and high so restaurant... which looked very clean!

I have been there several time... both Vientiane and Luang Prabang.   I found it really interesting and the people nice.  I also liked the food.. the local food in the cheap restaurants.... some is similar to Thai food.. and some is very spicy and lots of good flavours. 

At the embassy I had no problems... it was very quite, not many people.

If you take a few days the countryside and jungles are beautiful and you can do trips to waterfalls and all that stuff.. much better than Thailand, because they are not overdeveloped of full of crowds of people.

I have had 2 part time cleaning ladies.  Never had anything stolen.. and I trusted both of them to look after my house, pets, when I went away.  Both were very kind and like part of the family.

But, there are god and bad people everywhere... and even I would never leave expensive valuables, money, or other such things around the house in open view.  That is just tempting fate!  

36 minutes ago, Docno said:

Had the same experience... neighbourhood dog horribly injured (broken spine etc) after being hit by a car. Answer: "maybe it will live"  

Friend run down a stray dog... was in a right mess... knew it would not survive.. but the vest refused to put it to sleep.. keeping it alive over a week, of course with expensive medicating and operations.  Cost my friend a lot of money... and heart ache. 

The vest said they won't put it down as it's not Buddhist to kill animals....   But, I doubt these vets are all vegetarians!!!! 

1 minute ago, sinbin said:

You are talking utter rubbish. You need to research the breed. At one time the Bloodhound was feared look what it is these days. This Pitbull s*** is all down to sensationalism and selling newspapers.

You don't think the breed is powerful?

You don't think peoples serious injuries after attacks caused by pit bull dogs (and deaths) are because they got attacked by pit bull dogs?

?????

16 hours ago, Blablaboy said:

If Buddha and his disciple do not train our generosity, where do we learn on how to not attach too much on our money and possession?

Maybe in the past it was like that.  And, maybe there are some good true Monks here in Thailand.

But, the temples and monks in my area are not like that at all.  They just want more money to make the temples bigger, build new buildings, buy new trucks and get mobile phones.

I hear my village temple demanding people bring the monks more EXPENSIVE alms, saying that the more expensive things they bring the better!!!

They have parties to raise more money to buy land, parties with alcohol, drunk people, dancing sexy girls.  How is this the Buddha way, how is that showing people how to live?

I see a monk driving a car, buying food in the afternoon from local shop.. still in his orange robes. 

10 years ago my village temple was traditional and peaceful.  The monks walked out early morning to collect alms.  They were humble.  Now they tell people to bring the food to the temple... they are too lazy to go out walking.  They spend the day listening to loud Thai Country music. 

I don't think Buddha would even say that there should be temples, parties, expensive phones, cars, houses.  He says to have a simple life free of materialistic things.  This is not what is happening now.

So, no I don't give them alms.  They are fat and rich, not working and lazy...  and exploit the poor, skinny, hardworking villagers... they are like a parasite.

2 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

Last week a drunk driver in a Toyota Vios crashed into another car leaving 2 people dead.

Following your reasoning we should ban every Toyota Vios instead of going after drunk drivers.

 

The problem is not the breed of dog, the problem is that the average person who is attracted to this type of dog might not be a responsible dog owner.

If they would have taken another breed, Rottweiler, German Sheppard, Boxer, Mastiff, the same could have happened.

Your point makes sense... but in reality most people are dumb and too stupid and irresponsible to own such a potentially dangerous and lethal dog breed.

The problem is the breed.... simply as its so powerful and capable of serious attacks. 

To follow your reasoning people should also be allowed to own tigers, lions, crocodiles and hyenas.  It would be right not to blame these animals for attacking or injuring people... its the stupid idiots who owned them.  But it is illegal (in most places) to own such dangerous animals in domestic environments, and so it should be with bit bull dogs and other large and dangerous dog breeds.

I wish to make it clear I don't hate or even dislike the average bit bull dog.  I don't want to see peoples loved pets be killed or banned.  But, for the future, simply allowing the breed to go extinct would be a very good thing.

This happens time and time again.. and nearly always with this same breed of dog - all over the world.   How can people still justify allowing this dog breed to continue?!

I don't mean going around and destroying all pit bulls alive today... but I mean sterilize them all so no future generations can be born.  That way the people who have loved pets which are well trained and good temperament don't need to get their dogs taken away.

That the owner was only 'saddened' by the death of his cousin is pathetic.  If my dog had killed someone I could not live with myself... or the dog.

Some humans are totally selfish and / or stupid!  If is was that family I would not give a toss about his 'offer of an apology'.  I would demand justice.

Good she got caught.

I see far too much of this kind of stuff.  I know 2 people who have wild caught leopard cats as pets, someone who has 2 crocodiles in a pit in his yard, and people who hunt native protected deer to make lab graang dip. I see people fishing at night with electricity in the 'protected temple lake'.  I even have been to a house where the guy had a real tiger skin hanging on the wall!!! 

In one of the local temples they have a 'zoo' with wild caught hornbill birds, Siamese crocodiles, wild boar, pythons, turtles and tortoises.... all kept in tiny dirty cages.. and mysteriously vanishing to be replaced by new animals. 

There is a huge lack of respect for wildlife here... but even in the UK, we have destroyed out wildlife so we are just as bad.

The only thing I think will stop this stuff is if the punishments are very severe.  Fines and a slap on the wrists are pointless. 

On ‎26‎/‎03‎/‎2017 at 11:53 AM, true word said:

I'll tell you one thing I'm sure of, Thai people will never pay back your money.

That has not been my experience.  I have had my money paid back in full... many times.. and also gifts and food to say think you... as well as loyalty and real friendship / respect  out of gratitude.

It's evil and disgusting how the native Austrian people were treated and how they are treated today.

They are left in limbo... with few prospects and they culture and traditional lifestyle all by destroyed.

Still, now, the 'invaders' of this country try to force them into what they believe is 'best for them'.  In reality, these people need to wake up and get they act together and demand what they are owed... ie, their land back and their freedom to live as they want in they own country.. not be forced to integrate into western society norms. 

2 hours ago, smccolley said:

Where do you live? I haven't seen many bats at all in Thailand, and certainly not a fruit bat.

It that in a zoo?

2 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Not sure exacttly why you consider the article "misinformed". The headline asks a question, it does not make a claim, then the article gives a lot of relevant information, much of which I didn't know...like RWBB clubs and competitions. Seems very well informed.

 

You then raise some interesting points about breeders and such, but the article covers breeders and hybrids adequately, even extensively IMO. Also, it at least takes wild birds to begin a breeding farm and/or hybrid program. Also good points you make about habitat loss and questionable practices of agricultural husbandry, which are certainly major concerns...ALL are contributing to the loss, including extensive capture, and all need to be addressed. The easiest by far would be prohibiting these clubs and competitions and stiff fines for those caging and selling...seemingly anyway.

 

I do know from a couple decades of casual to moderate Thailand birding (was a hardcore birder in the States with a list upwards of 600 species and a GA list well over 300) that of the hundred+ RWBB I've seen here, only about 10 have not been in cages...and some of those possibly repeats in the yard here in BKK just this year. 

 

One last point, just because a species is common in one particular area, which is great to know, doesn't mean there still isn't a greater problem and decline on a much larger scale.

Sorry, I should have choses a better word than 'misinformed'.

However, I  doubt the cage bird trade (for these singing birds)  has any serious impact on the wild bird population.  Imposing fines and making it illegal for these competitions is pointless and taking away a fascinating part of the culture here.  It also distances people away from nature and then they will have no interest in birds or conserving them in the wild. 

I am from the UK.  Its illegal to trap and cage any native wild bird species and has been for many years.  These days no one keeps wild British birds.  But the UK songbird population for most species is declining year by year at an alarming rate.  Back in the day, when my Grandfather kept goldfinches, Bullfinches, etc there were  big populations of these birds.. and many people keeping them as pets too.  I remember him telling my of the huge flocks of Yellowhammers, buntings, and the white throats and thrushes... these days they are absent from the countryside.  So, how can it be these birds were most plentiful when people would catch and cage some... and now.. a long time after making it illegal, the bird populations are in steep decline with numbers being a fraction of what there were in the past?

Blaming Thailand singing bird competitions of the decline of its native birds does not hold water. Please not I am not talking about the illegal pet trade and smuggling rare and endangered bird or animals species!  And I don't agree with taking birds from the wild on moral grounds, but I still can not agree with that article that the song bird competitions are a big part of the Bulbuls population decline.  Seems to me that most birds here are declining... even species that are no kept as pets, or eaten.  Something else is going wrong... and I suspect habitat loss and degradation, together with pollution and persecution. 

Good to know that he won't have any problems with us going over and having some fun with his sexy wife when he is away.