No fair..I wanna go there too. Making me jealous, girl. But guess I'll have to make-do with photos and pretend I was there.

When you're up in Queensland, watch out for Cassowaries but I'm sure you already know to be careful of them, freaky dinosaur birds..I swear..demons from hell. Makes me think of a cross between a Velociraptor and an Emu. Those things can turn nasty real quick if threatened.


And watch out for Cone Snails, one of those buggers has enough venom to kill 15 healthly adult humans.

Wow theres lots of deadly things in one area...good luck...

You were telling me about this, poor Buddy. Thats just disgusting just because an animal is 'yours' doesn't mean you can do whatever you want to it.

If you ask me the lady should be banned from adopting an animal Australia wide, not just that area. I have no remorse for animal abusers, the animals don't have a voice.

Hope Buddy recovers back to full strength and goes to a home that deserves him, if you have the time (and the money) I say you should so take him or if not you someone else who least knows what they are doing with horses.

People so need to understand what taking care of animal really means, with Christmas coming I fear that many people will get their child a cute puppy or kitten and later the animal will be dumped in a shelter when the child is no longer interested or it's not a cute baby animal anymore.

You don't get rid of a human when it's no longer a cute little baby you can carry around, yet people do it to animals everyday.

But you know what they say, there is no cure for stupid. Just sad that stupid people can have animals and children, and the animals and children always pay.

I'll be up for an animal license and a parenting license, might not stop the stupid but might stop being getting animals and having kids just because they want to.

This was hard since so many people deserve to win in my eyes, but I finally settled on the following.

Fanart Award: RockingScorpion gets my vote this year, his artwork is just stunning. It makes me wonder why he is not a professional artist yet. Though others like StrutEggStealer and Ducky123 also provide amazing work, the scorpion steals the show this year.

Feedback Award: I don't really look at feedback other people leave but from what I have seen, my vote goes to Ducky123 he kindly points out mistakes and how to fix them and encourages the author/artist along. He critics but not so harshly the other feels discouraged. And thats what feedback is all about.

Friendly Member Award: This is the hardest one, I don't really interact with many on here so I'm choosing from the few that I do, though I can never pick who is the friendliest of them all since we all have our quirks and grumpy sides, I'll give the crazy horse lady Nahla the edge this year, moody at times, but what girl isn't? Her sarcasm does make you laugh and without her and bushwacked a certain Skype chat would be really dull. She is the type of friend you like having around.

Helpful Member Award: I'll give this to Ducky123 wherever it help with a fic, artwork or just a general life problem, Ducky's got your back.

Philosopher Award: I tend to avoid topics that tend to be highly debatable (Same-Sex marriage, etc) but from what I have read and skimming the history section my vote goes to rhombus he does not force his opinion down your throat and does try to see both sides of the argument, even if he is against your opinion he does not jump at your throat. No one respects people who force their views after all.

Proactive Award: I'm going to give this to DalekDino every time I come on here he has posted a new caption or something in the fanart section, I remember before he came along the caption section was pretty dead for the most part.

Project Awards: Skip sorry, I didn't even know we had projects on here so have no clue what to judge on...yes I live under a rock.

Role Play Gamer Award: I'm not really into Roleplay even know I'm in one, I'm gonna skip on this.

Man O' War won the Triple Crown? Wasn't it War Admiral?

Anyway moving on.

I just watched the replay, that's some horse.  Leading from start to finish without any challenge.

I don't know much about American racing either, but I do know a little bit about Australian racing mostly because it's hard to avoid here due to it being so big, our biggest racing being the Melbourne Cup in November run over 2 miles. It's the richest handicap in the world. That's my extent on horse racing knowledge. Besides the British racing I've watched at Ascot anyway.

Why is the Triple Crown so important? Well the prize money, sure but otherwise what makes it so special?

If someone will explain that to me, I'll be happy. Because I do not understand it, isn't it just a horse race?

Never been interested in racing so never bothered to learn much about it, my peeve with horse racing is they start the horses way too young. A two year old horse is still growing and it's bones are not even developed.

I do eventing and we are not allowed to seriously compete our horses until they are at least six when their bones are much stronger. At least here, may be different else where.

Also is his name really American Pharoah? That looks misspelled.

Happy 19th Birthday!

Next  year you'll be the big 20, two whole decades. So so enjoy your final 'teen' year while you can.

Have a great day/night you only ever get one 19th Birthday so make the most of it.

Ducky’s eyes went from each speaker to the other, she was not sure how Ruby’s family could help them when they wouldn’t be able to speak to them. Would they even believe Chomper?

Keeping her doubts to herself she spoke quietly “Yes...water..we’ll never make it to Hanging Rock without it, we’ll die of thirst before anything else.”

The landscape around them seemed to be mocking them, for what seemed like miles ahead the ground was dry and cracked, only the odd rock every now and then stood out in this living hell, it was like a punishment, the world turned against them testing everything they know about survival.

She squinted gazing into the distance trying to spot something...anything...she didn’t dare ask the question as she feared the answer-were they going to die?

You're an Egg STEALER? You know it's not nice to steal things, that is very dishonest. We can't have dishonest people here, you're banned, please empty all your pockets on your way out.

Yeah, what he said is true. We need to  get this guy a hobby.

rhombus, come give bushwacked here a hobby or something.

My turn I guess.


" Where's he going? He's going out into freezing cold to find a dog he doesn't like to bring medicine back to a town that doesn't like him!"

You've bought this kind of subject up many many times...

Lets get it out of the way now,

They're FICTIONAL dinosaurs
Living in a FICTIONAL world

But, Chomper is still  a predator and predators kill.

Lets take Simba from The Lion King, he was raised pretty much by Timon and Pumbaa-prey. Yet he still eats meat even though he was raised by his food pretty much. As a cub he ate grubs, but grubs won't support a full grown male lion.

I know he doesn't hunt, the lionesses do. Just like real life. But he still eats the meat does he not? True he was never shown eating meat, but he is a lion. Lions eat meat.


Chomper will have to kill when he gets older

I doubt Universal will ever have them grow up anyway, so why you seem to worry so much is beyond me.

Nature isn't fair. 'leaf eaters' are prey 'sharpteeth' are predators. The predators eat the prey, it's how they survive. They don't kill for fun  but for survival.

Even in the real world.

Survival comes before feelings,

Right now the gang including Chomper are all kids, they don't yet know the true reality of life and just how much things will change when they get older.

Innocence of a childs mind.

The gang and Chomper will move on and put their childhood days behind them. They'll want families of their own, they'll still have that friendship but they won't be going running around the Mysterious Beyond anymore.

Everyone changes when they grow up. It's the fact of life.