Leaving a bowl of fresh water outdoors could save an animals life

Vito Corleone · 08-07-2013 03:32PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

They just decide instead of saying that, they'll add some deadpan humour.

No, it's called thankswhoring.

Chucken · 08-07-2013 03:33PM

I just filled a basin with water and left it on the shed roof.

Now theres a herd of buffallo swimming in it :eek:

EDIT: No..not buffallo. Its little birds having a wash

ArmaniJeanss · 08-07-2013 03:34PM

Cats have ignored it so far. Flouride probably.

Micky Dolenz · 08-07-2013 03:34PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

No, it's called thankswhoring.

On this I will have to disagree. In that case every wannabe witty post would be classed as one.

Boo, down with humour.

08-07-2013 03:35PM

kraggy wrote: »

For the record, many animals die at this time of year due to the heat. Whether it be from lack of water or being left in a car with the windows closed.

Also, it's not a case that animals are always near a water supply in this country. The ocean doesn't count, it's got salt.

Firstly I'd like to see your source for lots of Irish animals dying of thirst.

Secondly, the ocean is not the only water found in nature. That's ridiculous.

Thirdly, there's a lot of water in food, any animal that's getting a meal is getting water too, and if they were desperate they could ingest water through plants. They already eat plants for their digestion anyway.

Larbre34 · 08-07-2013 03:35PM

So, let me see if I have this right......

A thread suggesting people to keep an eye out for thirsty creatures in warm weather has some senior mods ready to knife each other?

I now understand the dynamic of what happened at that Brazilian football match last week where the ref's head ended up on a stake.......

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130427122541/yogscast/images/5/56/Well_that_escalated_quickly.jpg

Micky Dolenz · 08-07-2013 03:37PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

So, let me see if I have this right......

A thread suggesting people to keep an eye out for thirsty creatures in warm weather has some senior mods ready to knife each other?

I now understand the dynamic of what happened at that Brazilian football match last week where the ref's head ended up on a stake.......

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130427122541/yogscast/images/5/56/Well_that_escalated_quickly.jpg

We are hardly ready to knife each other.

<_<
>_>

anncoates · 08-07-2013 03:42PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

Stay fcuking classy AH. Well done OP but you won't get much love here from anyone other than wannabe comedians.

Only got 3 thanks.

Let this be a lesson to you in striking the right tone of tetchy moralizing.

Corvo Attano · 08-07-2013 03:43PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

We are hardly ready to knife each other.

<_<
>_>

Pistols at dawn?

lkionm · 08-07-2013 03:44PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

No, it's called thankswhoring.

Yeah, well so is your face

dark crystal · 08-07-2013 03:45PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I want to post this here as After hours has a bigger audience than the Animal forum, but Mods feel free to move it if you see fit. There are a lot of free-roaming dogs, stray cats and ferals, not to mention the wild birds that will be desperate for water in this heat. Putting a bowl of fresh water out could mean the difference between life and death for an animal this week. It's a very small and free thing that all of us can do and it'll make a huge difference to a thirsty creature:)

I left out a bowl of water for a stray cat who was taking a nap in my garden yesterday - poor little thing drank the whole lot in one go.

I might make a little makeshift bird bath today too.

It's nice to be nice people!

LeinsterDub · 08-07-2013 03:46PM

dark crystal wrote: »

I left out a bowl of water for a stray cat who was taking a nap in my garden yesterday - poor little thing drank the whole lot in one go.

I might make a little makeshift bird bath today too.

It's nice to be nice people!

Food and drink, that cat's being well looked after

lkionm · 08-07-2013 03:47PM

Corvo Attano wrote: »

Pistols at dawn?

Kisses with Dawn.

Nemeses · 08-07-2013 03:48PM

And what about the fish?

shane9689 · 08-07-2013 03:49PM

if it dies from a week of semi-warm days in ireland, then its fciked during winter!
also if thats the case, french and spanish and basically any country south's animals are fcuked!

RandomName2 · 08-07-2013 03:49PM

Nemeses wrote: »

Do Wasps needs a bowl of water too?

I've seen wasps drinking out of a bowl of water on a hot day.
Fact.

Made me surprisingly close to having sympathy for them.

Nemeses · 08-07-2013 03:51PM

RandomName2 wrote: »

I've seen wasps drinking out of a bowl of water on a hot day.
Fact.

Made me surprisingly close to having sympathy for them.

Wasps can go <--Insert Rage of text--->

No time for them contrary fella's...

Gran Hermano · 08-07-2013 03:52PM

Forget bowls of water for the animals, we need to setup parasols for the ginger kids.

Mr Benevolent · 08-07-2013 03:52PM

Meh, animal lovers. They'll go out of their way to leave out some water for random stray animals but will step over a dying homeless person without a thought.

Nemeses · 08-07-2013 03:53PM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Meh, animal lovers. They'll go out of their way to leave out some water for random stray animals but will step over a dying homeless person without a thought.

Probably because most "Homeless" people here aren't actually homeless....

keelanj69 · 08-07-2013 03:54PM

Nemeses wrote: »

Probably because most "Homeless" people here aren't actually homeless....

Or dying. Unless we get philosophical here.

kylith · 08-07-2013 03:55PM

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Meh, animal lovers. They'll go out of their way to leave out some water for random stray animals but will step over a dying homeless person without a thought.

That's nonsense. Sometimes we'll think 'I wish he'd die faster so I could feed him to some needy animals'.

lkionm · 08-07-2013 03:55PM

Nemeses wrote: »

Probably because most "Homeless" people here aren't actually homeless....

I think most places kick them out during the day if I remember correctly?

wandatowell · 08-07-2013 03:57PM

lkionm wrote: »

My dog has begun luring the cats and dogs into his sex dungeon and is raping them.

What do I do now?

Get a pelican,

Dogs love pelicans

Nemeses · 08-07-2013 03:59PM

lkionm wrote: »

I think most places kick them out during the day if I remember correctly?

I wouldn't know - Most of them seem to be begging by post offices and ATM's

One of them had a pair of Nikes - How dafuq can he afford that when I have a job and wear Tesco's finest pair of shoes...

Go figure.

Anyway - Animals can look after themselves.. Theres plenty of rivers around the country - We haven't dried up yet...

SpaceTime · 08-07-2013 04:00PM

Our cat is definitely Irish!

Pink nose, ginger, hangs out under the fan in the shade!

Our last one would bask in this kind of weather.

PizzamanIRL · 08-07-2013 04:02PM

lkionm wrote: »

My dog has begun luring the cats and dogs into his sex dungeon and is raping them.

What do I do now?

Leave out 2 bowls of fresh water.

Freddy Smelly · 08-07-2013 04:02PM

Crooked Jack wrote: »

If you put a wee bit of jam around the edges and inside of that bowl you'll kill a shit-ton of wasps (note: a shit-ton weighs much much less than an actual ton.)

which is heavier? a ton of sh!t or a sh!t ton?????

Jogathon · 08-07-2013 04:04PM

Just cleaned out the green stagnant water in my parents' water feature. Good deed done. :-)

lkionm · 08-07-2013 04:08PM

Nemeses wrote: »

I wouldn't know - Most of them seem to be begging by post offices and ATM's

One of them had a pair of Nikes - How dafuq can he afford that when I have a job and wear Tesco's finest pair of shoes...

Go figure.

Anyway - Animals can look after themselves.. Theres plenty of rivers around the country - We haven't dried up yet...

I had a guest lecturur last year from the lads who do the homeless thing in Limerick, they give houses to people such as families but there isnt enough of those so they also have dry houses and other hostels, where they can only come in after 6 and have to leave again in the morning. Some dont allow alcohol or drugs.

You are right when you say no one should be homeless but during the day they have no where to go.

Maybe they can mind the stray animals? some companionship.

Leaving a bowl of fresh water outdoors could save an animals life

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