Pet health and care advices for pet owners and vet students, photography tips, travel stories, advices for young people
Friday, July 8, 2022
7 Jul 2022. PHOTOS FOR SALE - shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets
4149. 8 Jul 2022. A young Oriental Garden Lizard posed for me near Countryside Park. A kingfisher sat on the bench.
Fri 8 Jul 2022. I walked to Countryside Park today instead of driving past it to Lentor St Playground.
I had not walked this way for months.
1. Saw a kingfisher on the bench near the back of terraced houses, eating something. I took several photos from a long distance. His mate flew away.
2. An Oriental Garden Lizard clinging in an unexpected plant on the wall of houses on the way back to my house. He did not bother me taking photos and videos.
3. Later, went to YCKC forest.
4148. A butterfly with tattered wings
Butterfly wings are covered in minuscule scales that help add structure to the wing, as well as provide the colors that serve as either camouflage or warning signs to deter predators. Just brushing a wing with your finger removes hundreds of those scales, which can never grow back.
Why do butterflies get tattered wings?
Rough Encounters. Over the course of a butterfly's life, its wings can be scratched by thorns, bristles, branches, grasses or anything sharp it encounters.
Many kinds of butterflies, mainly males feed on moist substances like puddles, wet gravel, scat, sweat and tears. They are gathering salts and minerals to feed the female to aid with egg development. Sometimes, many do it like a puddle club.
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A small-sized butterfly with tattered hind wings in Yio Chu Kang Crescent forest, Singapore perches on a fern frond on 7 Jul 2022.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
4147. How to prevent leg muscle cramps. One way is the Leg Push Exercise Machine.
One way to prevent painful calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night
6 July 2022: One way to prevent painful calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night may be to exercise using the Leg Push Exercise Machine found in many public fitness corners in Singapore's residential estate. I am Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow). I am a veterinary surgeon at Toa Payoh Vets. In the past 3 years, I experienced sudden calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night. The cramps would start slowly inside the calf muscles of one leg and might occur in the other leg. I would try to extend my knee or flex it, hoping to recover. I wished that the leg would be amputated, such was the high intensity of pain in the calf muscle. I could feel the pain spreading up to the thigh muscles . Some years ago, I consulted a specialist in Singapore General Hospital. X-rays and MRI of the calf muscles were done. NO diagnosis of the muscle cramps. The pain recured without warning for a few times. I had my anti-muscle ointment ready to rub onto the muscles when the calf muscle cramps. For the past year, I used the Leg Push Machine to strengthen my calf muscles and knee by stepping onto it ton elevate my legs and body. So far, I noted that my calf muscles are no longer soft and flabby. I don't have worries about when the calf muscles will spasm and cramp when I sleep. Whether the machine helps or not, it will take research and another 4 years to know. Much depends on the individual's health. If the cause of calf muscle cramps is unknown and the person is healthy, one way to prevent calf muscle camps may be to exercise ondd the Leg Push machine. The best is ALWAYS to consult your doctor for a proper examination.4146. An assembly of butterflies today 6 Jun 2022.
6 Jun 2022. Yio Chu Kang Cres forest at corner of YCKC road, opposite entrance to Seletar Bus Depot.
Hot and humid but bright sunny morning 10 AM
BUTTERFLIES SEEN
1. Small-sized Common Grass Yellow one fluttering most of the time.
2. Medium-sized yellow white sipping nectar from Bidens pilosa wildflower (video).
3. The Peacock Pansy with right torn hind wing.
4. The Chocolate Pansy perfect
5. The tricoloured butterfly
6. The brown striped with white butterfly. Striped Albatross. Looks very white when seen from afar.
7.The busy buzzing Mormom
8. The tattered wing Chocolate Pansy butterfly x 3 videos
9. The Palm Dart (brown one today) butterfly
10. The Malayan sergeant
11. The Common Parasol
12. The brown dragonfly dull coloured.
13. The striped dragonfly.
14. Mosquitoes with blood
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The Purple Cleome (Cleome rutidosperma)
Host plant for Striped Albatross (Appia libythea olferna), the Pysche (Leptosia nina malayana) and Cabbage White (Pieris canidia canidia)
The flower are composed of 4 reddish petals that gradually fade to pink or light purple. The petals point upwards and are arranged side-by-side in a fan-like pattern.
4145. WASTE - BOOK. Listening and Writing for Social Justice - Catherine Coleman Flowers
Listening and Writing for Social Justice - Catherine Coleman Flowers
Writer's Digest Jul/Aug 2021
C C Flowers is an internationally recognised environmental activist.
Her book: WASTE. One woman's fight against America's dirty secret.
She is an activist, an enviornmentalist, a teacher, professor and a mentor, but first she is a listener.
Real activism starts with listening. Lisening can also help one write about social justice.
She is from Lowndes Country, Ala., -- her fight to ensure basic human dignity through a right most Amerians take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, esp the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, consequently live amid filth. It was once America's dirty secret until she wrote about it and amplify the voices of those who had not been heard before.
Her book WASTE. For the audience to remember what was written or shared long after they put the book down, it is important to capture voices, places and contexts that paint vivid pictures. With writing for social, one has not only inspire compassion, but action, and hopefully change.
To get the audience to understand the relationshipof environmental justrice to climate change, racial justice, rural American and failing wastewaer treatment systems. It was a tall order.
Listening to others in your community or writing about the environmental and social issues in your state is a step toward justice. It could be about climate change, plastic pollution or lack of sanitation.
Writing amplies the voices of those who have been silenced but could also offer meaningful solutions. Writing for soical justice creates powerful human connections made by putting a name and face to the narrative, which can be both lasting and transformative.
4144. Smartphone Huawei P30 of rice terraces in Bali, 9 Sep 2011, Indonesia
6 Jul
2022. PHOTOGRAPHY TIP - 100% VIEW.
A beautiful photo of the rice
terraces in Bali given to me by a young lady using her smartphone,
Huawei P30.
The image is REJECTED as not sharp at 100% view by shutterstock.com. That 100% is required by www.shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets
as
stock photo.
Photo posted to www.instagram.com/toapayohvets
to share with clients of Toa Payoh Vets
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
4143. Videos Pt 1/2 and 2/2. Why are the two 3-month-old dwarf hamsters scratching all the time?
INSTAGRAM STORY
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Video Pt 1/2. Why are the two 3-month-old dwarf hamsters scratching all the time?
30 Jun 2022 case study for video creation: 1. HOOK WITH VIDEO INTERNET CONSULTATION ON 28 JUN 2022:Video surveillance when left alone. Both hamsters scratch furiously during the afternoon when left alone
Hamster 2 scratches much more, non-stop when left alone.
Hamster 1 (left) has more severe skin infections of the lower body. You can see dampness on the skin and increase in dark pigmentation. Hamster 2 also scratches the whole body and bites his paws, but his lower body skin is not inflamed, hyperpigmented or moist due to licking.
BEFORE TREATMENT VIDEO OF HAMSTERS UNDER SURVEILLANCE
DAY 2 VIDEO AFTER TREATMENT. Less scratching on Day 1.