4174. PHOTOGRAPHY. Gentle breezes Marina Bay lady in white

Gentle breezes sweep over the clear waters of Marina Bay, cooling the tanned lady in white TO BUY PHOTO:  shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets   19 Jul 2022 

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS from Dr Sing Kong Yuen

I took 3 images in succession, focusing on the lady's eyes. Zoom lens 18-200mm, Canon EOS 90D, P Mode.

Some photography magazines advise using the Manual, Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority Modes. I find that it was not possible to get good exposure due to lack of professional experience in the settings and the very short duration of time to take this photo.

UPDATES AT:

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4173. THE TNR Program in Singapore - Stray Cats. A volunteer of 20 years.

THE TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release) PROGRAM IN SINGAPORE.
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow)

1. Culling the stray cat and dogs using the pest control companies and professional trappers paid on performance, shooting of stray dogs in the early 1980s or feeding them poisoned food have been practised in Singapore. Over the past years, kind individuals and NGOs (Non-government Organisations) and the AVS (Animal & Veterinary Service) have successfully executed the TNR Program.

 2. The TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release)  Program involves the following: 

2.1 Cat trappers are either volunteers or professionals who use the cat trap cage to entice the cat with cat food to trap them.

2.2 Cat welfare activists who are volunteers will transport the stray cats to and fro this clinic for this service.They may be cat trappers as in these two videos.

2.3  A veterinary clinic that participates in the TNR (Trap Neuter Return) program provides low-cost sterilisation of the stray cats.

The two videos show the kindness of an individual --- a 70-year-old woman (VOL) who operates her TNR program for the past 20 years.

MORE INFORMATION AT:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/07/4173-feeding-stray-cats-and-dogs.html

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VIDEO 1/2. 

In this video, she is putting a cat trap into the boot of her van after retrieving it from the veterinary clinic. She spoke about her self-funded services to stray cats and dogs in Singapore. This is a rough translation of her Hokkien to English conversations with Dr Sing Kong Yuen (SKY). 

SKY: This is a cat volunteer. Are you a volunteer (in the TNR program)?

VOL:  Ah...Volunteer? You can say that.

SKY: You are not paid (for doing this TNR program)

VOL: No (payment of) money lah! (for doing this work)

SKY: You have had been doing this workfor 10 years?

VOL: 20 years

SKY: Do you feed stray cats?

VOL: I feed 10 cats. I have two at home.

SKY: Do you feed stray cats?

VOL: Yes, yes, yes

SKY: Does the Cat Welfare Society give you money (for the TNR work)? 

SKY:  Do you feed stray cats?

VOL: Yes, yes, yes

SKY: (Do) you buy your cat food?

VOL: I buy the food myself

SKY: Does the Cat Welfare (Society) give you money (to buy food)?

VOL: No lah!

SKY: It does not provide you money?

VOL: No lah! I am self-funded. 

VOL: I feed (strays) in Harus

SKY: Not many (strays) in Harus nowadays?

VOL: Very few
 

SKY: You feed stray cats or dogs?

VOL: Dogs and cats. Harus has no stray cats. Cats are in Simei

SKY: Do you feed (strays) daily?

VOL: Yes

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VIDEO 2/2

1. The TNR (Trap-Neuter-Release) Program involves the following: 

1.1 Cat trappers are either volunteers or professionals who use the cat trap cage to entice the cat with cat food to trap them.

1.2 Cat welfare activists who are volunteers will transport the stray cats to and fro this clinic for this service.They may be cat trappers as in these two videos.

1.3  A veterinary clinic that participates in the TNR (Trap Neuter Return) program provides low-cost sterilisation of the stray cats.

A kind 70-year-old woman (VOL) operates this TNR program for 20 years.

VIDEO 2/2

SKY: (This bike is used) for feeding (stray cats)? This bike is not for catching dogs?

VOL: No, No! Others will trap dogs. I don’t have the expertise.

SKY: (You use this bike) in Kranji?

 VOL: The (stray cats and dogs) will be waiting for me. 

SKY: The dog trappers have trapped the dogs. They will be waiting for you to accept the dogs?

VOL: This bike is used for feeding dogs

SKY: To bring food for the stray dogs?

 VOL: Yes. Yes. My van cannot be driven inside some places in Kranji (Industrial Park). I use this bike.

SKY: Kranji (Industrial Estate)? Kranji has numerous stray dogs?

VOL: Yes!

SKY: Kranji is famous (amongst the stray dog trapping volunteers). They must feed (stray dogs in Kranji) at night?
 
VOL: Yes

4172. Posing for me today 21 Jul 2022: Japanese Rice Grasshopper and brown butterfly

SINGAPORE – JAN 25, 2021: A basking Japanese Rice Grasshopper, Oxya japonica is a pest as it is herbivorous and eats the farmers' crops. Climate change has increased its numbers in some countries. 

2 FEB 2023

The Malayan Eggfly is dark reddish brown medium sized butterfly. It has a series of post-discal and sub-marginal white spots on both wings. Seen in Lentor St Playground on 2 Feb 2023, 9 am.

This brown medium-sized butterfly perched on the white flowers in a plant in Lentor Street Playground. He posed for me for over one minute. Flew away. Then came back to the same tree leaves and posed for me longer.My Canon R5 lens was within 3 feet away from him. Sometimes, the butterfly will quickly fly away but not this butterfly.

I took two videos too.

UPDATES AT:

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4171. FINAL VIDEO. How Toa Payoh Vets treat an adult red-eared slider that has no appetite (anorexia). X-ray

 

HOW TOA PAYOH VETS TREAT ANOREXIA (NO APPETITE)  IN AN ADULT RED-EARED SLIDER.

A Be Kind To Pets Veterinary Educational Video
sponsored by Toa Payoh Vets.

This video provides a brief view of how a case of anorexia in a red-eared slider, F, 25 years old, 1.2 kg is treated.

Inpatient treatment from 3 days for observation and syringe feeding. The following procedures will be done and recorded:

1. Physical examination. Eyes. Respiratory rate. Mucous membrane pale or not. Mouth ulcers. Shell rot. Vent inspection. 

2. Activity. Walks a lot show she is active. Upright test in less than 30 seconds shows vigour and excellent health.

3. Appetite. Food as at  home. This red-eared slider eats pellets and chicken meat. Monitor amount.

4. Swimming. Level swimming. Lop-sided swimming. Amount and colour of poo in past 24 hours.

5. Sunlight or Ultraviolet for 30 minutes. Basking.

6. X-rays if necessary. Chest and abdomen for foreign bodies and egg binding, impaction of oviduct.

7. Treatment - medication, multi-vitamins and syringe feeding of pelleted food.

8. Discussions and follow up with the owner about the history, behaviour and any other matters related to the slider.

MORE INFORMATION:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/07/4171-adult-red-eared-slider-has-no.html

 

 

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RADIOGRAPHY TIPS – EXPOSURE.

24 Jul 2022. X-ray images. An example of a well exposed radiograph of a red-eared slider. No photoshopping needs to be done. A normal X-ray of a healthy 25-year-old female red-eared slider, 1.2 kg. Active, swims level, not lop-sided. Eats voraciously pellets and chicken meat. X-ray to check for eggs and foreign body. Some gas inside the intestines is normal.
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 Difficulty in egg laying?
Seek prompt veterinary attention at Toa Payoh Vets+65 6254-3326, 9668-6468, 9664-0404, judy@toapayohvets.com   toapayohvets.com

 

 

 

 

4170. PHOTOGRAPHY OF SMILES. A radiant smile for a street photographer

SINGAPORE - 19 JUL 2022: Tourists at the Merlion Park. After the removal of Covid-19 travel curbs in April, tourism from ASEAN countries has increased much more.

A radiant smile for an elderly street photographer 

SINGAPORE - 19 JUL 2022: Tourists at the Merlion Park. After the removal of Covid-19 travel curbs in April, tourism from ASEAN countries has increased much more.

4169. Videos of the South China Sea view from Shangri-la's Rasa Sentosa Resort.

VIDEOGRAPHY A VIEW OF SOUTH CHINA SEA Tues 19 July 2022. iPHONE'S 12's VIDEOS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA FROM SINGAPORE'S SENTOSA RASA RESORT. 

  The following information is from:

https://www.southchinasea.org/introduction

The South China Sea extends from the Strait of Malacca in the southwest, to the Strait of Taiwan in the northeast. Over 500 million people in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam live within 100 miles of its coastline.

Biodiversity and Natural Resources: It has a remarkable amount of biological diversity, including over 30% of the world’s coral reefs and many valuable fisheries. It is also thought to contain abundant oil and natural gas, a prospect of vital interest to the energy-importing countries around the region.

Sea lanes of communication: It is one of the world’s busiest international sea-lanes with many of the world’s busiest shipping ports. Over half of the world’s oil tanker traffic and over half of the world’s merchant fleet (by tonnage) sail through its waters every year. It is a strategic maritime link between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and therefore of paramount importance to major naval powers.

Regional solutions for Regional problems: The South China Sea is an area of growing concern over conflicting territorial claims, piracy, poaching, resource depletion, pollution, drug trafficking, illegal migration, and terrorism threats.

MORE INFORMATION FROM:

https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/07/4169-videos-of-south-china-sea-view.html

4168. Veterinary dentistry talk by Dr Jerzy Pawel Gawor on 17 Jul 2022 at Guild House Suntec City

17 Jul 2022. 
Dr Jerzy Pawel Gawor gave an excellent veterinary dentistry talk on radiology of the teeth for diagnosis and treatment such as root canal. He has vast experience in this specialty. I find it very useful.

MORE INFORMATION AND IMAGES AT THIS BLOG:

https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/07/4168-veterinary-dentistry-talk-by-dr.html