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acacia alba
Champion Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Location: Hunter Valley Status: Offline Points: 41243 |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2013 at 8:16pm |
can we all spare some thoughts for all the horses affected by the fires. in Tassie, Vic, and NSW.
They all need help. Some terrible cases are out there suffering. And all need feed and care until fences can be set up and it rains. Their owners are in dire straits too. Vets in all areas are working non stop to help. Along with many others. Please spare a thought for these, and other animals, and make a donation. Every penny helps, even if it just buys a bale of hay or some bandages . Quest do a great job. They worked wonders after the Kinglake fires. Also Operation Hope. Or any horse rescue you know of. just think if it was your horse burned, hungry, and needing help. and you couldnt be there. 50 dollars or even 100 isnt that much in the scheme of things but it can help a lot for these animals. help if you can. for the sake of the animals. Edited by Gay3 - 21 Dec 2019 at 12:23pm |
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Gay3
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Good idea acacia as I've no doubt they'll be bursting at the seams by now with all volunteers stretched to the limit so for anyone wondering about these organisations:
http://phhwv.org.au http://questequinewelfare.org/ it won't hyperlink - for me anyway I know during the Gippsland fires that Prestige Horse Transport worked around the clock, free of charge, to move horses to safety & encouraged others to follow their lead. I thought it wonderful to see a business forsake paid for work, in order to help those in need. Most likely one of hundreds of similar stories around the country |
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acacia alba
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Coonabarabran race club are having a race day, and all the profits will go to helping those who lost every thing.
and they sure had a hell of a time. help them all you can. |
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Brudder_A
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Former Oakbank Racing Club chairman John Glatz is in a critical but
stable condition in the Royal Adelaide Hospital after being caught up in
the Cudlee Creek fire.
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acacia alba
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Lets all spare some Christmas thoughts for all those , both human and animal, thats been impacted by all these fires. This year instead of wasting money on cards, and the postage rip off, I donated what I would have wasted to fire appeals. If we all just gave whats wasted on cards/postage/wrapping paper alone, all of which ends up in landfill, it could go a long way to helping buy a bale or fix a fence or give a drought kid a box of chockies.
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Shawy38
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Oakbank Racing Club former chairman John Glatz is fighting for his life in the Royal Adelaide Hospital after trying to save his house and horses on his Woodside property.
Mr Glatz, 73, Oakbank chairman for more than 25 years before stepping down in 2016, is in the Intensive Care Unit at the RAH in an induced coma with severe burns. He had surgery last night and his wife Merri, who escaped the blaze after Mr Glatz convinced her to leave, and their two adult children, are with him. He is in a critical but stable condition with burns to 60 per cent of his body. Mr Glatz was helping battle an inferno near his house close to the Bird In Hand Winery that claimed both his house and the house of fellow horse trainer Mark Faust. Mr Glatz is believed to have been found in his tractor by a police office. In a statement to the Sunday Mail Mr Glatz’s daughter Lucy Brooks, who also lives in the area, said her father had convinced his wife Merri to leave but decided he would stay to save what he could. “Mum got out but Dad stayed to try and protect his property. He was found later after the fire had passed,” Mrs Brooks said. “We haven’t been able to see him yet but we know he’s in good hands. “He had skin grafts last night and will have further surgery tomorrow.” Mrs Brooks said the entire Glatz property had been razed to the ground. “It’s typical of dad to try and rescue what he could but my parent’s entire property has been lost,” she said. “Dad’s a very stubborn man and that’s what will hopefully bring him through.” Mr Brooks said her husband Rob Brooks was still in the hills mending fences to try and keep livestock safe after the fires reached the lawns of their own hills farm property. Family friend Roma Williams said she was shocked to hear Mr Glatz’s name mentioned by emergency services. She had rushed home from work to check on the extensive property and livestock at Woodside of her mother, Frances Nelson QC. “I came from work to check the house and heard John’s name come over a police radio,” she said. “I was shocked. Then an unmarked police car went tearing off and I heard later he (Mr Glatz) was in a bad way and off to the RAH. “John’s renowned for his stubbornness and if anyone is going to pull through it will be him.” Ms Williams said her mother’s house and property was safe but it had been “a close-run thing”. “Just potluck really,” she added. “The wind changed and the fire jumped Jacaranda Drive and raced off over the hill heading Brukunga way.” Ms Nelson who’s mother Frances is also in hospital undergoing a hip replacement operation, said the house of the next door neighbour at Woodside had been lost and at least one other house in the close vicinity had been razed. Renowned for his passion for jumps racing Mr Glatz, who has had a trainer’s license for several decades, received an OAM in the Queen’s Birthday honours earlier in 2016. He hit the headlines spectacularly the same year at the Oakbank carnival when he called then Racing Minister Leon Bignell a “sweetheart” on Channel 7. Glatz lashed out after criticism of Oakbank Easter Monday crowds, claiming the government spent “not one cent” on the event and that Bignell “never goes to the races”. The crisis in the hills is not yet over. Hills trainers Barry Brook and Kirsten Moody managed to remove their horses and transport them to stables at the Magic Millions complex at Morphettville racecourse but several other trainers have been told not to leave their properties because of the ongoing danger. They have been a number of scratchings already for the race meeting at Gawler today. |
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Gay3
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Dozens of firebugs blamed for destructive Queensland firesAlmost 100 firebugs have deliberately started blazes across Queensland that have destroyed homes and consumed thousands of hectares of bushland. Some 65 fires continued to burn across the state on Friday, jumping from 55 reported on Thursday, as the fire threat deepened heading into the weekend. As firefighters remained on high alert, police revealed 103 of the destructive fires that had lashed Queensland since September were deliberately lit. Figures obtained by AAP revealed police had dealt with 98 people - 31 adults and 67 juveniles - for deliberately setting fires. A 16-year-old boy found to have started a fire that razed 14 homes in central Queensland and dealt with under the state's Youth Justice Act. Two more teens, 14 and 15, were charged with endangering property by fire over a blaze that destroyed two homes and forced hundreds to flee. More than 120 fires are still being investigated and more people could be charged. The firebug revelations come as fire crews continue to face challenging conditions as a strong upper ridge sweeping across the south-east combines with fresh east northeasterly winds on Friday. The volatile conditions prompted the weather bureau to reissue a severe fire warning for the Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Central Highlands and Coalfields, and the eastern parts of the Warrego and Maranoa districts on Friday. Areas of localised severe fire danger are in place for the eastern parts of the Central West district. Residents in Cainbable, west of the Gold Coast, have been told to prepare to leave, as a bushfire in the Lamington National Park continues to threaten properties.Firefighters continued to keep watch on the dangerous fire burning on multiple fronts at Lowmead near Gladstone, where authorities confirmed three homes were lost earlier in the week. The eastern side of the fire was burning in the vicinity of Cross Road, Hills Road, Whytallabah Road and Kirkpatrick Road. Firefighters will continue to work with heavy machinery and waterbombing aircraft to strengthen containment lines. Sunshine Coast residents remain on alert after being forced to evacuate a volatile bushfire on Wednesday. Forty-three homes have been destroyed in Queensland since August 1, as fires blackened more than 240,000 hectares of land. Conditions were forecast to improve along the Queensland coast into next week but residents across the state should remain on alert about the fire and heat warnings, the Bureau of Meteorology said. "It is vital not to become complacent when hearing these continued warnings,' forecaster Rosa Hoff told media on Friday "The danger is as real as it was the first day we experienced it in Queensland." |
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Carioca
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98 people charged with lighting fires, what is our beautiful country becoming!
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GAJ
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What makes these people tick, to do something as dastardly as that, If they could feel the pain of dying like that, like so many of our beautiful wild and domestic animals have.
Ruin peoples homes and properties. I hope they are locked up and take some lessons in the jail.
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acacia alba
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OMG Batemans Bay is surrounded with all roads closed, and the fire is threatening Mogo, so I hope they can protect the Zoo and animals there. Yesterday a man was caught , having lit 2 fires over around Cessnock. He should have been forced back into his fire and left there to fry.
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horlicks
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At least some good news AA Julian Abbott Chad Staples from the MOGO ZOO says all the animals are okay.. The zoo survived.. |
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Dr E
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Age old problem - man's fascinations and infatuations. Wonder how many of them are either firefighters or Greenies with different agendas? They all have major problems that a severe beating by the victims may help ... certainly no harm in running some experiments ...
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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acacia alba
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Just saw a sgement on TV at Mogo. Gee half the town is gone but they saved the Zoo and all the animals by having a plan in place. Those poor people down the south coast.
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Gay3
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AFTER THE FIRES...VITAMIN C ESSENTIAL. Firstly, my heart felt sympathy to all of the horse families impacted by fires. Words fail to express the stress and grief experienced by you all. Julie Cook posted an excellent article from Bairnsdale Animal Hospital - Eastwood Vets which states the issues with ash and toxic metal contamination from fires. Horses are very susceptible to heavy metal exposure which is not unusual in horses particularly arsenic. In the case of the recent fires, buildings and structures on fire emit toxic smoke and subsequently ash particles which can contain heavy metals not to mention the effects of combustible particles.. Once , inhaled or ingested via water or pasture, such metals remain in the system until an antagonist removes them. There is excellent research about the damages specific heavy metals cause such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury, uranium and beryllium. Symptoms may not be apparent for weeks or months. If you suspect your horse has been exposed to toxic metals I strongly recommend a course of Vitamin C either sodium ascorbate or ascorbic acid will be effective. The dose is 1 tablespoon morn and night in feed for 8 - 12 weeks, tapering off dose gradually to nil. Vitamin C is particularly required in drought and where there is a lack of green pasture. Horses do produce their own Vitamin C provided they have fresh green pasture. Vitamin C has effectively removed heavy metals from many horses I have tested over the years. It is effective because it is an antioxidant, it prevents free radical damage to tissues and boosts the immune system.Most economical form is powder not human tablets and as most of you know, Deb Cotton sells it at wholesale price.
***Paulick Report coverage of this story*** The severe fires throughout California over the past three months
have exposed humans and animals to unhealthy air containing wildfire
smoke and particulates. These particulates can build up in the
respiratory system, causing a number of health problems including
burning eyes, runny noses and illnesses such as bronchitis. They can
also aggravate heart and lung diseases such as congestive heart failure,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and asthma. # # #
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GAJ
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That is great advice re the Vit C, some activated charcoal in the feed also will help flush the toxins the Vit C is targeting. also zeolite.
Vit C also is very good for burns, used topically either the injectable form removed from the bottle and dabbed on or even dissolved powdered form. We have been using it for ages as in the process our business of laser cutting - at times we have received some burns from a 500w Laser beam! ouch.
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Gay3
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Coalition For the Protection of Racehorses - Exposed
DISGRACED ANIMAL "CHARITY" - EVEN MORE DISGRACEFUL POSTS We can be proud that across the nation, and from all walks of life, Australians have come together during this awful bushfire disaster to help and assist however they can. Except for disgraced animal "charity" Vegan Rising, who have seen it as another excuse to attack farmers. The same farmers have lost homes, some have lost friends and family and some have lost everything they own, are now under attack from vegan activists. It just re-enforces why the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission were totally correct in their decision to strip this group of their charity status. This "charity" has direct links to the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses with the Vegan Rising Campaign Director also being the paid media spokesperson for CPR. According to the ACNC website, for the last financial year available, CPR received $38,763 in donations and paid out $25,754 in employee salary. That's 2/3 of CPR donations for that year being paid to an individual who runs another group that has lost its charitable status and undertakes this sort of questionable conduct against suffering farmers during a national crisis. It is really important that Australians are aware of where their donations to these sort of organsiations eventually end up. Meanwhile on Saturday, CPR protestors, who as an organisation have contributed nothing to the bushfire appeal, will be out protesting at the Magic Millions, who have already raised over $300,000 in bushfire assistance. It should be common sense that the protest should be cancelled as it is in poor taste at this time, but CPR are so completely detached from the majority of Australians that they just don't get it. We congratulate Magic Millions and the many others in the racing industry who have helped out during this bushfire crisis providing financial as well as practical support. Please continue to support genuine bushfire relief and assistance programs however you can. |
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acacia alba
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If they really cared they would be out assisting fire injured horses and their owners, or the brumbies that have been hurt in these fires. It appears the Barmah Brumbies have just about all perished. Just as well I am not at the MM or I would be compelled to give them a mouth full, and pprobably get myself locked up. So disrespectful , and such a bunch of dressmakers. Wonder have any of them donated ?
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